4 November

The 4t o November is the 308t day o the year (309t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 57 days bidin.

 Events 
 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
 1786 - Necker Island in the Northwastren Hawaiian Islands is discoverit.
 1828 - Andrew Jackson is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
 1847 - James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties o chloroform.
 1856 - James Buchanan is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
 1884 - Grover Cleveland is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
 1918 - Warld War I: Austrick-Hungary surrenders tae Italy.
 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is electit Preses o the Unitit States in his aen richt.
 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
 1955 - The Rebiggit Vienna State Opera opens.
 1956 - Hungary's Revolution against Communist rule is endit.
 1966 - The River Arno spills its banks, floodin the ceety o Florence, Italy.
 1979 - 90 hostages (incluidin 53 Americans) are taken hostage at the Unitit States Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
 1980 - Ronald Reagan is electit Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin Jimmy Carter.
 1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
 1995 - Prime meenister o Israel Yitzhak Rabin is assassinatit.
 2001 - The Polis Service o Northren Ireland is creatit.
 2008 - Barack Obama is electit tae become the first African American Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin John McCain.
 2010 - Aero Caribbean Flicht 883 crashes in central Cuba, killin 68 fowk.
 2011 - Ruth Davidson is electit leader o the Scots Conservative Pairty.
 2012 - Pape Tawadros II o Alexandria is electit.
 2015 - Justin Trudeau becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
 2017 - Fitbaa: Celtic beat their aen Scots (an Breetish) record by bein unbeaten for 63 consecutive domestic gemmes, efter a 4-0 league win ower St. Johnstone.
 2018 - A referendum on unthirldom is held in New Caledon; a majority (56%) vote tae continue tae be a French owerseas territory.
 2019 - Sir Lindsay Hoyle is electit tae replace John Bercow as Speaker o the Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick.

 Births 
 1470 - Edward V o Ingland (d. 1483)
 1575 - Guido Reni, Italian penter (d. 1642)
 1877 - Robert Jack, Scots pheesicist (d. 1957)
 1908 - Joseph Rotblat, Pols-Breetish pheesicist (d. 2005)
 1916 - Walter Cronkite, American jurnalist (d. 2009)
 1917 - Alan Lyell, Scots dermatologist (d. 2007)
 1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
 1932 - Thomas Klestil, Preses o Austrick (d. 2004)
 1933 - Charles K. Kao, Cheenese-born pheesicist (d. 2018)
 1946 - Laura Bush, umwhile First Lady o the Unitit States
 1948 - Amadou Toumani Touré, umwhile Preses o Mali
 1951 - Traian Basescu, umwhile Preses o Romanie
 1952 - Pape Tawadros II o Alexandria
 1953 - Derek Johnstone, Scots fitbawer
 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, umwhile Prime meenister o Finland
 1957 - Tony Abbott, 28t Prime Meenister o Australie
 1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
 1969 - Sean Combs, American rapper, producer an actor
 1974 - Robbie Winters, Scots fitbawer
 1985 - Marcell Jansen, German fitbawer
 1988 - Kevin McDonald, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German componer (b. 1809)
 1961 - John Dalrymple, 12t Yerl o Stair, Scots sodger an politeecian (b. 1879)
 1990 - David Stirling, Scots foonder o the SAS (b. 1915)
 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime meenister o Israel (b. 1922)
 2008 - Paddy Buckley, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)
 2008 - Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
 2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American pheesicist (b. 1915)

 Halidays 
 Unity Day (Roushie)

 Ootside airtins 

Category:Days o the year