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November 4 in history

209 sourced entries recorded on November 4, from 604 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1274November 4–19 – Battle of Bun'ei: Forces of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China invade Japan. After conquering the Japanese settlements on Tsushima and Iki islands, Kublai Khan's fleet moves on to Japan and lands at Hakata Bay. Their landing is not unopposed: an old sea wall runs along much of the bay, and behind it are stationed the warriors of Hōjō Tokimune. The Japanese open combat with whistling arrows (kabura-ya), designed to unnerve and intimidate their foes. The Mongols use bombs against the Japanese forces and manage to break through at a few places, burning down the nearby town of Hakata (modern-day Fukuoka). The invaders are eventually repelled, and after inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese, a withdrawal is ordered. Credited to a great typhoon – called a kamikaze, or divine wind – the Mongol fleet is dashed on the rocks and destroyed. Some sources suggest that 200 warships are lost. Of the 30,000 strong invasion force, some 13,000 does not return.source
  • 1309Pope Clement V declares that Knights Hospitaller will not be sent to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, and that they will be limited to defending the Mediterranean Sea including Cyprus and Rhodes.source
  • 1333The River Arno floods, causing massive damage in Florence, as recorded by Giovanni Villani.source
  • 1342King Toirdhealbhach of Connacht is deposed by Mac Diarmata (Eng. MacDermot) and Mac William Burke. Succeeded by Aodh mac Aodh of Clann Mhuircheartaigh.source
  • 1354War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.source
  • 1415The English Parliament is opened by King Henry V for an 8-day session.source
  • 1429Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.source
  • 1461The English Parliament is opened at Westminster by King Edward IV, and the House of Commons elects James Strangeways as its Speaker.source
  • 1473The negotiators for Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire tentatively agree on creating a Kingdom of Burgundy, ruled by Charles the Bold, that would become a member of the Empire and that would include Burgundy, Holland, Luxembourg, Savoy, Lorraine and other parts of what are now the Netherlands, Belgium and France. A coronation ceremony for Charles as King of Burgundy is tentatively scheduled to take place on November 25.source
  • 1501Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War: At the Battle of Mstislavl, Grand Prince Ivan's Southern Muscovite army defeats the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.source
  • 1501Philip and Joanna of Castile leave for Spain.source
  • 1509Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the Viceroy of Portuguese India, replacing Francisco de Almeida, who departs five days later from Diu. Almeida never makes it home, getting killed along with his 64 men in a battle on March 1 with the local Khoekhoe people at South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.source
  • 1520Coronation of Christian II in Stockholm by Gustav Trolle. Sören Norby, Berend von Mehlen and Otto Krumpen is knighted.source
  • 1529The English Reformation Parliament is first seated.source
  • 1536Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio, the envoy of Pope Paul III, files his report of his peace mission to negotiate an agreement between the Holy Roman Empire and France.source
  • 1546Christ Church, Oxford, is refounded as a college by Henry VIII of England under this name.source
  • 1549The Pragmatic Sanction is proclaimed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Low Countries are declared inseparable.source
  • 1561Upon the death of his father, Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi, King Afonso II Mpemba a Nzinga becomes the new monarch of the Kingdom of Kongo, located in what is now the southern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the northern portion of Angola. Afonso II reigns for less than a month before being overthrown by his brother, Bernardo.source
  • 1571The Mexican Inquisition, for investigation and punishment of heresy against the Roman Catholic Church in the New World, begins with the first session of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain.source
  • 1576Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp; after three days the city is nearly destroyed.source
  • 1580Conquest of Kexholm in Russiasource
  • 1581Jean de la Cassière is restored as Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller, by Pope Gregory XIII.source
  • 1583Gerolamo Chiavari is elected to a 2-year term as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa to succeed Gerolamo De Franchi Toso.source
  • 1583Francis Throckmorton, instigator of the Throckmorton Plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England, is arrested. Convicted of treason, he is executed on July 10, 1584.source
  • 1585James VI surrenders Stirling Castle to the rebel lords.source
  • 1587During the circumnavigation of the world by Thomas Cavendish, the English ships capture the Spanish galleon Santa Ana and its treasure of 100 troy pounds of gold (worth 122,000 Spanish pesos) and a total treasure worth 2.1 million pesos.source
  • 1591The coronation of Pope Innocent IX takes place in Rome as Cardinal Andreas von Österreich places the crown on the head of Giovanni Facchinetti.source
  • 1592November 4 (2nd waxing of Natdaw, 954 ME) – In a war between what are now the nations of Myanmar and Thailand, the Army of Burma, led by King Nanda Bayin Burma (Toungoo) begins its invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam), defended by King Naresuan.source
  • 1616Prince Charles (15-year-old surviving son of James I of England and Anne of Denmark) is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall in London, the last such formal investiture until 1911.source
  • 1625November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.source
  • 1634Joyous Entry into Brussels of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria as new governor general.source
  • 1641Battle of Cape St Vincent: A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet off the coast of Portugal.source
  • 1646Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the death penalty as punishment for denying Biblical inspiration.source
  • 1656Ali Adil Shah II becomes the new Sultan of Bijapur (located in what is now India's Karnataka state) upon the death of his father, Mohammed Adil Shah.source
  • 1661Polish and Lithuanian forces, led by King Jan II Kazimierz (who is also the Grand Duke of Lithuania) defeat the Russian Army at the Battle of Kushliki.source
  • 1677The future Mary II of England marries William of Orange in London.source
  • 1677William of Orange marries Princess Mary of York at St James's Palace.source
  • 1680a second Exclusion Bill is proposed to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York from inheriting the throne.source
  • 1706The Parliament of Scotland votes, 116 to 83, to approve the merger of Scotland with England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.source
  • 1706the Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of the Union with England Act by 116 votes to 83.source
  • 1712The Bandbox Plot aims to kill British Lord Treasurer Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford but is foiled by Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver’s Travels).source
  • 1712Bandbox Plot: Jonathan Swift foils an attempted murder of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.source
  • 1731Empress Anna Ioannovna establishes the Cabinet of Ministers, a supreme state body that functioned until December 23, 1741.source
  • 1737The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.source
  • 1746Anwaruddin Khan, the Nawab of the Arcot State in South India, is driven back by the Captain Louis Paradis of the French Army after he and 10,000 soldiers attempt to drive the French back out of Madras.source
  • 1766The wedding between Crown Prince Gustav and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark in Stockholm.source
  • 1767Francisco de Paula Bucareli, the Governor of Buenos Aires (at the time, a province within the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru), hosts the caciques who are the Guarani chiefs of the 30 mission towns established by Jesuit missionaries, in an effort to gain Guarani peoples' support in the expulsion of the Jesuits.source
  • 1774The Maryland Jockey Club follows a recommendation of the Continental Congress and cancels its race schedule. The decision sets a precedent for other jockey clubs in the colonies, and no major races are held until the end of the American Revolution.source
  • 1780Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II: In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II leads an uprising of Aymara and Quechua peoples and mestizo peasants as a protest against the Bourbon Reforms.source
  • 1782Elias Boudinot of New Jersey is elected the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.source
  • 1789Richard Price preaches a sermon in London, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, igniting the Revolution Controversy.source
  • 1791St. Clair's Defeat, the worst loss suffered by the United States Army in fighting against American Indians, takes place in modern-day Mercer County, Ohio. Miami fighters led by Chief Mihsihkinaahkwa (Little Turtle) and by Shawnee warriors commanded by War Chief Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) rout the forces of General Arthur St. Clair and kill 630 U.S. soldiers, along with hundreds of civilians.source
  • 1794Battle of Praga: Russian General Alexander Suvorov storms Warsaw in the war against the Polish Kościuszko Uprising and captures Praga, one of its suburbs, unwittingly killing many civilians.source
  • 1796The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797).source
  • 1798The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu, held by the French, begins.source
  • 1804In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed "Australia" or "Terra Australis" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").source
  • 1811Luddite uprisings, in which workers destroy industrial machines, begin in northern England and the Midlands. According to one historian, "The first attack on textile machines by men who used the name 'General Ludd' and called themselves his followers, was on the night of 4th November 1811 in the village of Bulwell, four miles north of Nottingham, when a small band of men gathered in the darkness and marched to the home of a master weaver called Hollingsworth," then destroyed six of his weaving machines.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1814King Charles XIII of Sweden becomes King of Norway, as Charles II .source
  • 1825Canal Saint-Martin opened in Paris.source
  • 1834Delta Upsilon fraternity founded at Williams College.source
  • 1836Jan Frans Willems and Jean-Baptist David found Flemish literary society Maetschappij tot Bevordering der Vlaemsche Tael en Letterkunde.source
  • 1838Survivors of the Potawatomi Trail of Death arrive at the modern-day site of Osawatomie, Kansas.source
  • 18401840 United States presidential election: William Henry Harrison defeats Martin Van Buren in a landslide.source
  • 1843The Bay of Islands Advocate begins publishing. It runs for three months.source
  • 1846The Donner Party, a wagon train of 87 settlers traveling to California, is stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains by the first of several snowstorms. By the time a relief party reaches the starving settlers three months later, only 48 survivors are left, many of whom have survived by cannibalism.source
  • 1847November 4–8 – James Young Simpson discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.source
  • 1848France ratifies a new constitution. The French Second Republic is set up, ending the state of temporary government.source
  • 1852Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour becomes the Piedmontese prime minister.source
  • 1853Crimean War: Battle of Oltenitza – Turkish forces defeat the Russians.source
  • 18561856 United States presidential election: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of Know Nothings and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.source
  • 1861The University of Washington is founded in Seattle.source
  • 1862Richard Jordan Gatling patents the Gatling gun in the United States.source
  • 1862Archer wins the second Melbourne Cup (List of Melbourne Cup winners).source
  • 1863Cape Western – Stellenbosch to Wellington, 27 mi.source
  • 1863Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens is performed for the first time, at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.source
  • 1864American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union supply base with artillery, and destroy millions of dollars' worth of material.source
  • 1869The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.source
  • 1874Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.source
  • 1876October 28-November 5 - Hagi Rebellionsource
  • 1876The long-awaited First Symphony of Johannes Brahms has its première at Karlsruhe, under the baton of Otto Dessoff.source
  • 1877Inauguration of the Maria Pia Bridge, in Porto.source
  • 1879Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his invention of the incandescent light bulb (U.S. Patent 223,898 will be granted on January 27, 1880).source
  • 1880The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.source
  • 18841884 United States presidential election: Democratic governor of New York Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest, to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.source
  • 1886Ole C. Johnson, soldier in the American Civil War (born 1838)source
  • 1890The first deep level London Underground (Tube) Railway, the City and South London Railway, opens officially.source
  • 1890London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opens. It runs a distance of 5.1 km between the City of London and Stockwell.source
  • 1899The Alpha Sigma Tau sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.source
  • 1905Russification of Finland: The application of the February Manifesto, removing the veto of the Diet of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland over matters considered by the Emperor to concern Russian imperial interests, is interrupted by the new November Manifesto. The Senate of Finland is ordered to put forward a proposal for parliamentary reform, based on unicameralism and universal and equal suffrage.source
  • 1911Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).source
  • 1911The Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).source
  • 1917Acari Guaíba and another ship are torpedoed by the same German submarine, SM U-151.source
  • 1918Jiu Valley National Council established in Petrozsény (now Petroșani)source
  • 1921After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich (Germany), members of the Sturmabteilung ("brownshirts") physically assault his opposition.source
  • 1922Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: in Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.source
  • 1922Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt: English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the Valley of the Kings. On 26 November, Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside the tomb in over 3,000 years.source
  • 1924Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.source
  • 1924Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom againsource
  • 19241924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Wisconsin Senator, Robert M. La Follette Sr.source
  • 1925Italian socialist deputy and expert marksman Tito Zaniboni took a hotel room opposite the Palazzo Chigi with the intent of shooting Benito Mussolini with a telescopic rifle when he came out to the balcony to make a speech. Police had been tipped off by an intercepted phone call and stopped the would-be assassin.source
  • 1926A revised import tariff is introduced, shifting from ad valorem to specific duties to protect local industries.source
  • 1927November 3–4 – Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".source
  • 19281928 Nicaraguan general electionsource
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1931Resistance at Nenjiang Bridgesource
  • 1939WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.source
  • 1939Stewart Menzies is appointed head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.source
  • 1940November 2–8 – WWII: Greco-Italian War – Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in Epirus: Outnumbered Greek forces repel the Italian Army.source
  • 1946UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
  • 1950The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.source
  • 1951The Luxembourg national football team beats Finland 3-0: its last international victory for ten years.source
  • 19521952 United States presidential election: Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by the UNIVAC computer).source
  • 1952Pace-Finletter MOU 1952: A Memorandum of understanding is signed between "...Air Force Secretary Finletter and Army Secretary Pace that established a fixed wing weight limit [for the Army] of five thousand pounds empty, but weight restrictions on helicopters were eliminated..."source
  • 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956: More Soviet troops invade Hungary, to crush the revolt that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.source
  • 1957An alleged extraterrestrial attack on two sentries at the Itaipu Fort takes place in Praia Grande, São Paulo. The entire electricity of the fort, including the emergency circuits, went down during the incident. Afterwards, Brazilian Army and United States Air Force (USAF) personnel, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force, flew to the fort to interview the soldiers.source
  • 1959Six Israeli jets and four Egyptian MiG-17s clashed in a dogfight near the border between the two nations. All planes reportedly returned safely and the battle did not lead to further action.source
  • 1960The Television Corporation of the University of Chile, Channel 9, begins its transmissions from the city of Santiagosource
  • 1964President Paz Estenssoro is ousted in a coup d'état led by Vice President Barrientos and General Ovando Candía.source
  • 19661966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hits Florence, flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, a severe tidal flood hits Venice.source
  • 1967November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
  • 1973Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation began radio-television operations.source
  • 1977United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 places a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa.source
  • 1979Iran hostage crisis begins: 500 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.source
  • 19801980 United States presidential election: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and is elected the 40th President of the United States.source
  • 1981Venera program: Venera 14 is launched to Venus.source
  • 1981Israeli authorities order Birzet University closed for two months, additionally carrying out arrests of several of the university's administration and the student council.source
  • 1984The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.source
  • 1984November 1–4 – Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.source
  • 1989The sixth section of the MRT system is opened from Marina Bay to Tanah Merah.source
  • 1989Typhoon Gay devastates Thailand's Chumphon Province.source
  • 1989Typhoon Gay makes landfall in Chumphon Province after having surprised forecasters in its development.source
  • 1991November 4–5 – End of Apartheid: The African National Congress leads a general strike, demanding representation in the government and an end to the value-added tax.source
  • 1991October 28–November 4 – The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern U.S. coast and Atlantic Canada, causing over US$200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.source
  • 1993Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 2001Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, where the storm is the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on the island in more than 49 years. It is the costliest hurricane in Cuban history to this point with an estimated $2 billion in damage.source
  • 2007Baku–Gazakh motorway minibus crash took place, becoming the country's heaviest road accident in the past ten years.source
  • 20082008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama defeats Republican candidate John McCain and is elected the 44th President of the United States, making him the first African-American to be elected to the office.source
  • 2008Algeria announced that it will cut 71,000 daily barrels of its oil exports among the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC. Following a recent meeting the oil cartel agreed to reduce its exports by a collective 1.5 Goilbbl a day, beginning on November 1.source
  • 2008October 30–November 4 – Floods affected Northern and Central Vietnam.source
  • 2009The Cambodian government announces that ousted prime minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra has been appointed as a government adviser.source
  • 2010Qantas Flight 32 suffers an engine failure requiring an emergency landing in Singapore.source
  • 2010Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.source
  • 2015Romanian prime-minister Victor Ponta resigns amid calls from the people angered by the Colectiv nightclub fire, marking the end of an almost four years period of unrest in Romania. Peaceful protests would continue until November 9.source
  • 2018November 4–6: President of the Council of State of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel visits North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.source
  • 2019Amnesty International alleges that Bangladesh killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of extrajudicial executions.source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 2023Guinean commando forces forcefully remove former president Moussa Dadis Camara and several other officials from a central prison in Conakry amid gunfire. Camara is later taken back into police custody shortly after the alleged kidnapping attempt.source
  • 2025UPS Airlines Flight 2976, a Honolulu-bound McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, crashes shortly after take-off near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, United States, killing all three crew members and 12 people on the ground, as well as injuring 22 others.source
  • 2025Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 288 people dead in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand.source

Births

  • 1448King Alphonso II of Naples (died 1495)source
  • 1509John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Polish-German nobleman (died 1565)source
  • 1512Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (died 1565)source
  • 1522Albert de Gondi, Marshal of France (died 1602)source
  • 1553Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1616)source
  • 1572William Whitmore, English politician (died 1648)source
  • 1575Guido Reni, Italian painter (died 1642)source
  • 1592Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (died 1656)source
  • 1631Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)source
  • 1642Zheng Jing, Chinese pirate (died 1681)source
  • 1649Samuel Carpenter, Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania (died 1714)source
  • 1650King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)source
  • 1660Albert Angell, civil servant, landowner and businessperson (died 1705).source
  • 1698Caleb Fleming, English dissenting minister and Polemicist (died 1779)source
  • 1787Edmund Kean, English actor (died 1833)source
  • 1798John Dilloway, English cricketer (died 1869)source
  • 1811Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spainsource
  • 1816Stephen Johnson Field, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1899)source
  • 1879Will Rogers, Native American humorist (died 1935)source
  • 1900Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, politician, lawyer, sociologist and economist (died 1954).source
  • 1916Walter Cronkite, American television journalist (died 2009)source
  • 1946Laura Bush, First Lady of the United Statessource
  • 1957Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australiasource

Deaths

  • 604Yohl Ik'nal, female ruler of Palenque (Mexico)source
  • 711Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (born 669)source
  • 915Zhang, Chinese empress (born 892)source
  • 999Gregor von Burtscheid, German abbotsource
  • 1004Otto I, duke of Carinthiasource
  • 1035Jaromír, duke of Bohemia (Přemyslid dynasty)source
  • 1039Hugh of Chalon, French bishopsource
  • 1188Theobald of Ostia, French abbot and bishopsource
  • 1203Dirk VII, Dutch nobleman and knightsource
  • 1212Felix of Valois, French hermit (born 1127)source
  • 1212Saint Felix of Valois, French hermit and a co-founder of the Trinitarian Order. (born 1127)source
  • 1217Philip of Dreux, French bishop (born 1158)source
  • 1360Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (born 1295)source
  • 1411Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (born 1384)source
  • 1428Sophia of Bavaria, Queen regent of Bohemia (born 1376)source
  • 1485Giovanni Mocenigo, Doge of Venice (born 1408)source
  • 1527In India, Puranmal becomes the new Raja of the Kingdom of Amber (now in the Indian state of Rajasthan) after his father, the Raja Prithviraj Singh I dies of wounds sustained in March in the Battle of Khanwa.source
  • 1556Robert IV de La Marck, Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and a Marshal of France (b.1512)source
  • 1576John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (born c. 1510)source
  • 1588Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron of Foulissource
  • 1601Cyril I is selected as the new leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as Patriarch of Constantinople and Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, succeeding Meletius I, who died on September 12.source
  • 1639Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea, Member of Parliament (born 1578)source
  • 1650William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange at the moment of his birth, succeeding his father, who had died a few days earlier. He does not become stadtholder, so the United Provinces becomes a true republic.source
  • 1702John Benbow, English officer in the Royal Navy (born 1653)source
  • 1753Iver Elieson, merchant (born 1683).source
  • 1771Charles Lucas (politician), Irish apothecary (born 1713)source
  • 1781Charles Morris, Canadian judge (born 1711)source
  • 1790Ove Gjerløw Meyer, jurist and government official (born c. 1742)source
  • 1791Richard Butler, American soldier (born 1743)source
  • 1839Newport Rising: Between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers march on Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops fire on the crowd. This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.source
  • 1847Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (born 1809)source
  • 1924Gabriel Fauré, French composer (born 1845)source
  • 1943November 3–4 – The Holocaust: Aktion Erntefest ("Operation Harvest Festival") – The largest single day massacre of Jews in the entire war takes place when over 43,000 Jews are murdered by the SS, the Ordnungspolizei and the "Trawniki men" in Sonderdienst formations at the Majdanek, Trawniki and Poniatowa concentration camps in the General Government territory of occupied Poland.source
  • 1995Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.source
  • 2018Amazonas ambush, three Venezuelan border guards were killed and ten were wounded in a suspected Colombian ELN guerrilla attack in the Venezuelan Amazonas state.source
  • 2019LeBarón and Langford families massacre: Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about 70 mi south of the Mexico–United States border.source