November 4

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 4. From 1900 until now. November 4 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Matthew McConaughey (1969), Sean Combs (1969) and Kathy Griffin (1960). Several movies were released around November 4 over the years, such as Raging Bull in 1980 directed by Martin Scorsese and The Big Short in 2015 directed by Adam McKay.
But much more happened on November 4 over the years: find out below

How many days until next November 4

likes

Like this date if it is important to you!

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released around November 4 over the years?
Watch popular movies, TV series and live events, start your 30-day free trial

Historical Events

Which were the important events of November 4?

Events

2018 2018 Minya bus attack: Egyptian Police kill 19 Islamist militants accused of involvement in an attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt two days ago. (BBC)
2017 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Houthi rebels in Yemen fire a ballistic missile at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The missile was shot down, according to Saudi officials, with no resulting injuries or damage.(BBC News) (The New York Times)
2016 Kurdish–Turkish conflict: A car bomb kills at least eight people and injures up to 100 in Diyarbakır, Turkey. (NPR) (USA Today)
2015 Flights between the United Kingdom and the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh are suspended due to concerns of the British government that the crash was caused by an "explosive device". (ITV)
2014 The United States circulates a draft resolution proposing a sanctions regime for conflict-torn South Sudan. (Reuters)
2013 Syria civil war:: Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, top rebel leader and chief recipient of U.S. aid, quits his position blaming recent losses on rebel infighting. (Washington Post)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Syrian opposition groups hold a meeting in Doha, Qatar, to discuss reforming the structure of the group, a few days after a War Crime investigation commenced at the UN. (BBC)Rebels capture a strategic oilfield in eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate. (BBC)
2011 The Israeli Navy boards two ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists en route to the Gaza Strip. (BBC/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
2010 Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.ref name=NYT_1106
2009 Rebel Houthis in Yemen cross the border into Saudi Arabia, killing a Saudi security officer and injuring 11 others. (Angola Press) (The Times)
2008 California votes to approve a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
2007 At least six people are killed as a Learjet 35 crashes into a residential district in São Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters via News Limited)
2006 The death toll in a fire at the historic Mizpah Hotel in Reno, Nevada rises to nine with not all of the ruins having been searched yet. (Las Vegas Sun)
2005 The U.S. and Uruguay governments sign a Bilateral Investment Treaty.
2004 The shutdown of the Number 2 Balakovo nuclear reactor in the Saratov region of southern Russia due to a turbine malfunction causes widespread local panic. Local pharmacies' supplies of iodine sell out; residents flee, urging each other to drink vodka and avoid public water. Engineers at the plant find no leak of radiation. A number of people are hospitalized for iodine overdose; the government and media are criticized for poor coordination. (Bellona)
2003 The U.S. National Cancer Institute is funding human clinical studies to test experimental reovirus-based cancer treatments, after initial studies show promising results against a number of different types of tumor which contain the Ras oncogene.
2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2001 Establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
2000 '''Died:''' Stephanie Lawrence, 50, English musical theatre actress (liver disease)
1995 Indiscretions closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1994 Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1993 Timon of Athens opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid, Spain.
1990 Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story opens at Shubert NYC for 225 performances
1989 1st NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to New Jersey Nets, 111-106
1988 1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1987 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1986 Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in six years.
1984 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1982 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch Premier
1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 seconds remaining
1980 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1979 500 Iranian students seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1978 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available
1977 UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1976 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich and McCovey, available
1975 Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1973 1000s commemorates former Premier Georgios Papandreou
1972 Bangladesh adopts constitution
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces
1967 November 5 – Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.
1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 mph) in Utah
1963 John Lennon utters his infamous Rattle your jewelry line
1962 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1961 Karamanlis becomes Premier of Greece
1960 Misfits premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
1959 Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs' shortstop, wins National League Most Valuable Player.
1958 Angelo G Roncalli crowned as Pope John XXIII
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1955 After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1954 Fanny opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1953 Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia Athletics
1952 Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America
1951 New York Giants and New York Yankees score back-to-back touchdowns on kickoff returns.
1950 Barrier closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1946 Park Avenue opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1943 France arrests government of Lebanon
1942 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing
1940 Eggs and cake rationed in the Netherlands
1939 US allows cash & carry arms sales during WWII
1938 At a public meeting in Epping, Winston Churchill narrowly survives an attempt by fellow Conservative and constituent Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley to remove him from Parliament.
1933 Bradman scores 200 NSW vs. Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours
1928 Jose Moncada elected President of Nicaragua
1927 Frank Heath and his horse ''Gypsy Queen'' return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states (of that time).
1924 British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1921 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1918 Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
1914 Russia declares Turkey the war
1911 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City
1905 Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
See more

Famous Birthday

Matthew McConaughey: American actor who made his motion...
Sean Combs: Rapper.
Kathy Griffin: American comedian.
Petra Verkaik: Los Angeles, California -- Playmate...
Marlène Jobert: Algerian-born French stage and film...
TOP (entertainer)
Bethenny Frankel: American chef and television...
Laura Bush: American First Lady, the wife of George...
Nicolas Canteloup: French comedian and imitator with a TV...
Ralph Macchio: American actor.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala: American singer-songwriter and drummer...
Lena Zavaroni: Scottish singer, a child star at age ten...
Robert Mapplethorpe: American contemporary photographer whose...
Luis Figo: Portuguese footballer.
Alexz Johnson: Canadian singer-songwriter producer and...
Dominique Voynet: French politician, mayor of Montreuil...
Didier Ratsiraka: President of Madagascar.
Bil Tierney: American astrologer and author since...
Loretta Swit: American actress, a star on the TV...
Traian Basescu: President of Romania.
Amadou Toumani Touré
Sam Wagstaff: American aristocrat, museum curator,...
Heather Tom: Soap Opera Actress.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau: TV Actor.
Annick de Souzenelle
Louise Redknapp: English singer and actress (Eternal).
Machiko Ono: Japanese actress.
Markie Post: TV Actress.
Renée Faure: French stage and film actress, who...
Walter Cronkite: American broadcaster, one of the most...
Alfred Heineken: Dutch industrialist who built an...
Tony Abbott: Prime Minister of Australia (2013-2015)...
Darcy Rose Byrnes
Lakshmi Menon
Diana Bianchedi: Italian champion foil fencer, the winner...
Art Carney: American actor and comedian on stage,...
Linda Lorin
Martin Balsam: American actor onstage from 1935.
Carlos Valdes (percussionist)
Lorenzen Wright: American basketball player:...
Gary Stretch
Yilmaz Erdogan
Jérôme Leroy: French footballer (soccer player), who...
Anne Gravoin
Tim Vincent
Iran hostage crisis
Gig Young: American actor, handsome and personable...
Frédéric Covili
Marcell Jansen: German footballer.
Éric Lambert (cartoonist)
César Évora
Jeff Probst: American television host.
Bee Vang
Matti Vanhanen: Finnish journalist and politician 40th...
Jean-Pierre Bemba
Anthony Ruivivar
Valeria Solarino
Don Eddy: Long Beach artists.
Daisy de Galard
Brian Edwards: Irish-New Zealand political commentator,...
Cameron Mitchell: Dallastown, Pennsylvania -- Actor...
Jean-Jacques Gautier: French novelist, essayist, journalist...
Joseph Rotblat: Polish-born British physicist, recipient...
Susanne Szell
Don Alvarado: Actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies...
David Paladin: American artist whose life story sounds...
Nannie Doss
Thomas Ferguson Rodger
Delbert McClinton: American Country-Western singer whose...
John Ray Weber
Henri Gault: French food journalist and co-founder of...
Dick Groat: American baseball player and...
Jimmy Carruth: American basketball player:...
Bruno Neveu: French historian and academic, an...
Charles K Williams
Juan Solanas
Marguerite Patten: English economist and author (d. 2015).
Ralph Sutton
Jordan Rudess: American keyboard player and songwriter...
Maurice Roche: French composer, writer, journalist and...
Benno Besson: Swiss-German actor director and...
Thomas Klestil: Austrian politician and diplomat 10th...
Michel Bras: French chef.
Robert Menzies (actor)
Clark Graebner: American tennis player.
Hannelore Knuts: Belgian model and actress.
Bob Rubin: American minor film producer of...
Gillian Zinser
Samantha Smith (actress)
Andrew Gleason: American mathematician who as a young...
Victoria Soto: American educator (d. 2012).
Trishelle Cannatella: American reality TV cast member and...
Steven Ogg: Voice Actor.
Pope Theodoros II of Alexandria
Justine Waddell
Warren Christie
Yohann Pelé: French football/soccer goalkeeper, who...
Philippe Renard
So Ji-sub: South Korean swimmer, model and actor.
François Delapierre
See more

Famous Deaths

Michael Crichton: American writer, the author of...
Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli military man and politician;...
Dominique Dunne: Actress (Poltergeist), murdered by...
Sam Francis: American Abstract Expressionist Painter...
Sparky Anderson: American baseball player and manager (d....
Takasji Hara: Premier of Japan, murdered.
Miklos Radnai: Composer, dies at 43.
Charles Arnold Tournemire: Composer, dies at 69.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: Composer, dies at 89.
Art[hur] Tatum: US jazz pianist / composer, dies at 46.
Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret: Composer, dies at 78.
Krsto Odak: Composer, dies at 77.
Paul JM Lindemans: Flemish agricultural engineer / author,...
Carlos Marighela: Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle.
Ferenc Szabo: Composer, dies at 66.
Karl H Waggerl: Austria Author (Green Friends), dies at...
Edgar Fernhout: Dutch Painter / Son of Charley Toorop,...
Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen: Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62.
Jose L Guarner: Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56.
Robert Rapoport: Social anthropologist, dies at 72.
H Richard Hornberger: Surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73.
Kurt Hirsch: German mathematician (Born 1906).
Frank Arthur Calder: Canadian politician and Nisga'a...
Arnold Rothstein is shot and killed in the Park Central Hotel in New York City: owing US$333,000 on a poker game.
Izzat Husrieh: Syrian journalist and publisher (Born...
John H Ketcham: American politician (Born 1832).
Luigi Galleani: Italian anarchist (Born 1861).
Grover Cleveland Alexander: American baseball player (Born 1887).
Fred ''Sonic'' Smith: American guitar player MC5 (Born 1949).
Charles Causley: Cornish writer and poet (Born 1917).
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey: American memoirist (Born 1908).
Peter Viertel: German-born American author and...
Juan Camilo Mourino: Mexican Secretary of the Interior (Born...
Eugenie Blanchard: French supercentenarian (Born 1896).
Morrie Schwartz: Sociology professor at Brandeis...
Gabriel Faure: French composer, organist and teacher...
Michel Kikoine: Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968).
Richard Conner: American Civil War Medal of Honor...
Wilfred Owens: Anti-war Poet (Anthem for doomed youth),...
Michelle Nicastro: American actress and singer (Born 1960).
June Thorburn: Actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash...
Sheila Ryan: Actress (Song of Texas, Great Guns),...
Merie Earle: Actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic...
Basuki Abdullah: Indonesian painter, murdered at 78.
Cliff Young: Pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car...
Alexander Hardie Williamson: Artist, dies at 87.
Fred "Sonic" Smith: Guitarist, dies at 46.
Jan Wegter: Actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64.
Samuel Lewis Francis: Painter, dies at 71.
Jerome Berger: Lawyer / Film producer, dies at 64.
Marti Lynne Stringer Caine: Singer / comedienne, dies at 50.
George Chambers: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago...
Nadia Anjuman: Afghan poet and journalist (Born 1980).
Raphael Soyer: artist (Depression scenes in New York...
Cy Young: American baseball player (Born 1867).
Sheree North: American actress singer and dancer (d....
Richard Hooker: American novelist (d. 1997).
Malcolm Marshall: Barbadian West Indies cricketer (Born...
Paul Eddington: Actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68.
George Klein: Canadian inventor invented the Motorized...
Ken Gampu: South African police officer and actor...
Buddy Bolden: American cornet player (d. 1930).
Bert Patenaude: American soccer player (Born 1909).
Hubertus Brandenburg: Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (Born...
Belle Bennett: Actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41.
Charles Buddy Bolden: US jazz musician.
Eddie Egan: American actor and police officer (Born...
Rogelio del Villar: Composer, dies at 61.
Marcel Barger [Streliskie]: Cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz.
Stig H Dagerman: Swedish Author (Burned Child), dies at...
See more