November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
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NATIONAL CHICKEN LADY DAY
1520 – Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden. Christian II (1 July 1481 – 25 January 1559) reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523 and of Sweden from 1520 until 1521. He was the oldest son of King John and belonged to the House of Oldenburg.
1783 – On November 4, 1783, Commanding General George Washington issued a proclamation officially disbanding the Continental Army: “Whereas the United States in Congress assembled were pleased on the 29 day of October last to pass the following resolve...In compliance therefore...I do hereby give this public Notice that from and after the 15th day of this instant November all Troops within the above description shall be considered as discharged from the service of the United States. And all Officers commanding Corps or Detachments of any such Troops are hereby directed to grant them proper discharges accordingly.” In fact, a token number of troops remained afterwards to maintain order, complete enlistment obligations, or because they were ill or needed to care for the sick. A few weeks later, in early December, Washington ordered General Henry Knox to discharge even these men, except for 500 infantry and 100 artillerymen.
1845 – First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States. A uniform date for choosing presidential electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845. Many theories have been advanced as to why the Congress settled on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The actual reasons, as shown in records of Congressional debate on the bill in December 1844, were fairly prosaic. The bill initially set the day for choosing presidential electors on "the first Tuesday in November," in years divisible by four (1848, 1852, etc.). But it was pointed out that in some years the period between the first Tuesday in November and the first Wednesday in December (when the electors are required to meet in their state capitals to vote) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law. So, the bill was reworded to move the date for choosing presidential electors to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a date scheme already used in New York. The effect of the change was to make November 2 the earliest day on which Election Day may fall.
The 73-year-old prime minister was walking to his car when he was shot in the arm and the back by Yigal Amir, a 27-year-old Jewish law student who had connections to the far-right Jewish group Eyal. Israeli police arrested Amir at the scene of the shooting, and he later confessed to the assassination, explaining at his arraignment that he killed Rabin because the prime minister wanted "to give our country to the Arabs."
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist, established the Loomis Laboratory (d. 1975)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, American rocket fuel scientist and engineer (d. 2004)
1923 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Heineken beer (d. 2002)
1783 – On November 4, 1783, Commanding General George Washington issued a proclamation officially disbanding the Continental Army: “Whereas the United States in Congress assembled were pleased on the 29 day of October last to pass the following resolve...In compliance therefore...I do hereby give this public Notice that from and after the 15th day of this instant November all Troops within the above description shall be considered as discharged from the service of the United States. And all Officers commanding Corps or Detachments of any such Troops are hereby directed to grant them proper discharges accordingly.” In fact, a token number of troops remained afterwards to maintain order, complete enlistment obligations, or because they were ill or needed to care for the sick. A few weeks later, in early December, Washington ordered General Henry Knox to discharge even these men, except for 500 infantry and 100 artillerymen.
1845 – First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States. A uniform date for choosing presidential electors was instituted by the Congress in 1845. Many theories have been advanced as to why the Congress settled on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The actual reasons, as shown in records of Congressional debate on the bill in December 1844, were fairly prosaic. The bill initially set the day for choosing presidential electors on "the first Tuesday in November," in years divisible by four (1848, 1852, etc.). But it was pointed out that in some years the period between the first Tuesday in November and the first Wednesday in December (when the electors are required to meet in their state capitals to vote) would be more than 34 days, in violation of the existing Electoral College law. So, the bill was reworded to move the date for choosing presidential electors to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a date scheme already used in New York. The effect of the change was to make November 2 the earliest day on which Election Day may fall.
1864 – On this day in 1864, at the Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest subjects a Union supply base to a devastating artillery barrage that destroys millions of dollars in materiel.
1879 – James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon. Ritty opened his first saloon in Dayton, Ohio in 1871, billing himself as a "Dealer in Pure Whiskies, Fine Wines, and Cigars." Some of Ritty's employees would take the customers' money and pocket it, rather than depositing the cash that was meant to pay for the food, drink, and other wares. In 1878 while on a steamboat trip to Europe, Ritty became intrigued by a mechanism that counted how many times the ship's propeller went around. He wondered if something like this could be made to record the cash transactions made at his saloon.
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler. The Sturmabteilung (SA); Storm Detachment or Assault Division, or Brownshirts) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of the opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties (especially the Rotfrontkämpferbund) and intimidating Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists and Jews (e.g. the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses).
1929 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
1956 – A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.
On November 4, 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, once and for all, the national uprising. Vicious street fighting broke out, but the Soviets' great power ensured victory. At 5:20 a.m., Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced the invasion to the nation in a grim, 35-second broadcast, declaring: "Our troops are fighting. The Government is in place." Within hours, though, Nagy sought asylum at the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest. He was captured shortly thereafter and executed two years later. Nagy’s former colleague and imminent replacement, János Kádár, who had been flown secretly from Moscow to the city of Szolnok, 60 miles southeast of the capital, prepared to take power with Moscow's backing.
1979 – On this day in 1979, hundreds of Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The students, supporters of the conservative Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini, were demanding the return of Iran's deposed leader, the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who had fled to Egypt in January 1979 and by November was receiving cancer treatment in the United States. After the student takeover, President Jimmy Carter ordered a complete embargo of Iranian oil.
In April 1980, President Carter severed all diplomatic relations with the Iranian government, but after a top-secret rescue mission failed, he resumed negotiations with the Khomeini regime. Despite his best efforts to win the hostages' freedom while he was still in office, Carter did not get much credit for their release: The Iranians let the hostages go on January 20, 1981, just minutes after new elected president Ronald Reagan finished his inaugural address.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The 73-year-old prime minister was walking to his car when he was shot in the arm and the back by Yigal Amir, a 27-year-old Jewish law student who had connections to the far-right Jewish group Eyal. Israeli police arrested Amir at the scene of the shooting, and he later confessed to the assassination, explaining at his arraignment that he killed Rabin because the prime minister wanted "to give our country to the Arabs."
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist, established the Loomis Laboratory (d. 1975)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, American rocket fuel scientist and engineer (d. 2004)
1923 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Heineken beer (d. 2002)
1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, pioneer of fiber optics research
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