today in history 4 th nov............. 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. 1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI 1468 - Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundys troops. 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica 1527 - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary 1529 - London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament 1534 - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1629 - Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague 1640 - English Long Parliament forms 1655 - England & France sign miltary & economic treaties 1656 - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS] 1676 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier 1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet 1716 - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August Is Polish kingdom 1752 - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation 1760 - Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria 1762 - Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris 1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana Composer George Friedrich Handel 1783 - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded 1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at Londons Tyburn gallows. 1791 - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers 1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. 1794 - French troops conquer Maastricht 1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America 1812 - Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma 1813 - US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala 1820 - Cuenca Ecuador declares independence 1838 - The Times of India, the worlds largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. 1839 - 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1839 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed 1848 - Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force 1856 - A British fleet bombards Canton. 1862 - Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana 1863 - Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War 1867 - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi 1868 - 1st black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana) US President Ulysses S. Grant 1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) 1869 - Canadas Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms 1874 - James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti 1883 - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) 1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans cant be Americans 1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture. 1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses 1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao 1888 - Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes 1889 - Chaplain Ariëns founds 1st roman catholic workers group 1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales 1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator 1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president 1899 - James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title 1900 - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC) 25th US President William McKinley 1903 - Colombia grants independence to Panama 1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners. 1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan 1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. 1913 - The USA introduces an income tax. 1916 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar 1917 - 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce 1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves 1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1920 - Emperor Jones opens at Provincetown Theater 1922 - Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life 1926 - 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins 1926 - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager 1927 - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) 1927 - Rodgers & Harts musical Connecticut Yankee, premieres in NYC Absolute monarch Nicholas II 1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) 1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1930 - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens 1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America 1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. 1931 - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured 1934 - Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP 1934 - Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP 1935 - George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy 1935 - Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) 1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) 1937 - Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km) 1937 - NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont 1939 - Clare Booths Margin for Error, premieres in NYC 1941 - Hirohitis accord on Yamamotos attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1942 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault 1942 - Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP 1942 - Mort Cooper wins NL MVP 1942 - William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago 1943 - Dmitri Sjostakovitchs 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1943 - P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland 1944 - Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren 1944 - German troops in Vlissingen surrenders 1944 - Pro-German government of Hungary flees 1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1945 - Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi 1946 - Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution 1948 - 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago 1952 - Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas 1952 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel Baseball Player Ted Williams 1953 - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly 1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC) 1954 - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe 1955 - 1st virus crystallized (announced) 1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor 1955 - Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua 1955 - Australia takes control of Cocos Islands 1955 - Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht 1956 - Wizard of Oz 1st televised (CBS-TV) 1957 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test 1959 - David Ben-Gurions Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election) 1960 - Unsinkable Molly Brown opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs 1960 - Ivory Coast adopts constitution 1960 - Pittsburgh Pirates Vern Law wins Cy Young Award 1960 - Tammy Grimes Unsinkable Molly Brown premieres in NYC 1961 - General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers 1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open 1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres 1964 - Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 - Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously 1967 - Bostons Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young 1967 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. 1968 - Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon 1968 - Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta 1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic 1968 - NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 1969 - Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1970 - Presidents Daughter opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs 1970 - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award 1970 - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam 1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1971 - Play Misty For Me premieres 1973 - Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury 1974 - Lorelei closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances 1974 - Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic 1975 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) 1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf 1977 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic 1978 - 1st broadcast of Diffrent strokes on NBC TV 1978 - Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution 1978 - Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic 1978 - USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty 1979 - 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic 1979 - Marocco offensive against Polisario 1980 - Ianford Wilsons 5th of July, premieres in NYC 1980 - Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland As 1981 - Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award 1982 - Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record 1982 - Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukees 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young 1983 - Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) 1983 - Nashville Network begins on cable TV 1984 - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984 - Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated 1985 - Argentine pres Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections 1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament 1986 - Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US 1986 - Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986 - John Lennon Menlove Avenue album released posthumously 1986 - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran 1986 - Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US 1987 - Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year 1987 - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 1988 - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane US President & Actor Ronald Reagan 1988 - President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill 1988 - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Riveras nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping 1989 - 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights 1989 - Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose 1989 - Minn Timberwolves 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94 1990 - Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway 1991 - 21st NYC Womens Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 1991 - 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28 1991 - Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps) 1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R) 1992 - Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in US Senate 1993 - Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil Ironman record by playing 322nd cons game 1994 - Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994 - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches 42nd US President Bill Clinton 1994 - Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder 1994 - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) 1995 - 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100 1995 - 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80 1995 - 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79 1996 - Its a Slippery Slope, opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC 1996 - 26th NYC Womens Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18 1996 - 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54 1996 - Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup 1996 - Toray Japan Queens Cup 1997 - Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year 1997 - California law ends affirmative-action 1997 - David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club 1997 - Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year 2007 - Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court. 2012 - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
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