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
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