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.

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Events

Results o the 1952 election in the Unitit States

1995: Memorial tae Yitzhak Rabin

Results o the 2008 election in the Unitit States

• 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

Walter Cronkite

Charles K. Kao

• 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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