Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 4
- 1869 - Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals, was first published.
- 1918 - The German Revolution began when forty-thousand sailors took over the port in Kiel.
- 1956 - Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian Uprising, killing thousands. Nearly a quarter million fled the country as refugees.
- 1979 - Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held the occupants hostage for 444 days.
- 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was mortally wounded at a peace rally in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir.
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