Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 4
This is a list of selected November 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Unity Day in Russia | unreferenced section |
| 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, currently the oldest active opera house in Europe, was inaugurated. | refimprove |
| 1852 – Count Cavour became Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1869 – Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1889 – Menelik II, who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. | neutrality issues |
| 1921 – The remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal flame at the Altare della Patria in Rome. | refimprove section |
| 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time. | unreferenced section |
| 1964 – Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK and secretly exiled to Turkey. | needs copy editing |
| 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and damaging or destroying millions of books and paintings. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – Salvador Allende took office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – Hundreds of Iranian students supporting the Iranian Revolution seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis. | multiple issues |
| 1991 – Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos was granted a presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino and allowed to return from exile. | section too long, unreferenced section, missing page numbers |
Eligible
- 1791 – Northwest Indian War: In the most severe defeat ever suffered by the United States at the hands of American Indians, the Western Confederacy won a major victory at the Battle of the Wabash near present-day Fort Recovery in Ohio.
- 1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, that resulted in the capture of 150 prisoners.
- 1912 – Construction on USS Nevada, the first "super-dreadnought" of the United States Navy, began as the keel was laid down.
- 1970 – Authorities in Temple City, California, discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as "Genie", who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
- 2008 – Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
- Born/died: Felix Mendelssohn (d. 1847) · Carlos Castillo Armas (b. 1914) · Matthew McConaughey (b. 1969)
Notes
- The Unknown Warrior appears on November 11 so Altare della Patria should not appear in the same year.
November 4: Flag Day in Panama
- 1780 – In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led an uprising of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants as a protest against the Bourbon reforms.
- 1890 – London's City and South London Railway (locomotive pictured), the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running a distance of 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
- 1960 – At the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.
- 2010 – In the first aviation occurrence for an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and safely made an emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport with no casualties.
Hu Zongxian (b. 1512) · La Belle Otero (b. 1868) · Shoghi Effendi (d. 1957)