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Birthday November 04, 1862 Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright |
Birthday November 04, 1879 Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma |
Birthday November 04, 1879 Will Rogers, humorist, never met Hitler |
Birthday November 04, 1906 Bob Considine, sports columnist |
Birthday November 04, 1909 Ciro Alegr¡a, Peruvian novelist (Golden Serpent) |
Birthday November 04, 1916 Walter Cronkite, newsman ("and that's the way it is") |
Birthday November 04, 1918 Art Carney, Actor (Honeymooners, Harold and Maude) |
Birthday November 04, 1919 Martin Balsam, Actor |
Birthday November 04, 1930 Doris Roberts, in St Louis |
Birthday November 04, 1930 Kate Reid, in London England |
Birthday November 04, 1937 Loretta Swift, in Passaic NJ - Hot Lips on M*A*S*H |
History November 04, 1801 Patriot, politician and physician William Shippen dies |
History November 04, 1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd |
History November 04, 1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island |
History November 04, 1864 Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee |
History November 04, 1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
History November 04, 1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall |
History November 04, 1880 1st cash register patented (James & John Ritty) |
History November 04, 1918 Poet Wilfred Owen killed in action |
History November 04, 1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen |
History November 04, 1922 Entrance to King Tut's tomb discovered |
History November 04, 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming) |
History November 04, 1927 Heavy rain leads to flooding in New England |
History November 04, 1928 One of New York's most notorious gamblers is shot to death |
History November 04, 1939 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited Chicago Il |
History November 04, 1944 Gen. Sir John Dill dies |
History November 04, 1945 World Community Day |
History November 04, 1946 UN Educational Scientific & Cultural Org formed |
History November 04, 1948 T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature |
History November 04, 1951 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns |
History November 04, 1956 Soviets crush Hungarian revolt |
History November 04, 1956 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal |
History November 04, 1969 South Vietnamese battle communists along the Cambodian border |
History November 04, 1970 U.S. hands over air base to the Vietnamese Air Force |
History November 04, 1972 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders |
History November 04, 1978 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) |
History November 04, 1978 Anne Murray earns a #1 pop hit with You Needed Me |
History November 04, 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy take 90 hostages |
History November 04, 1979 Iranians storm U.S. embassy |
History November 04, 1979 Iranian students storm U.S. embassy in Tehran, leading to oil embargo |
History November 04, 1980 Islanders started 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) |
History November 04, 1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% |
History November 04, 1990 Dances with Wolves debuts |
History November 04, 1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassinated |
History November 04, 2001 End of an era for the Yankees |
History November 04, 2008 Barack Obama elected as America's first black president |