On This Day: 4 November

4 November in Indian history

• 1791Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.India

4 November in world history

• 1995Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
• 1979Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
• 1970Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
• 1970Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
• 1960At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
• 1956Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1944Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
• 1944World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
• 1939World War II: 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 by belligerents.
• 1936Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero reshuffles his war cabinet, persuading the anarcho-syndicalist CNT to join the government.
• 1922The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
• 1921The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
• 1912The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
• 1864American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, resulting in the capture of 150 prisoners.
• 1852Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
• 1780Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
• 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.

Born on 4 November

• 1993Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast
• 1971Tabu, Indian actressIndia
• 1961Ralph Macchio, American actor
• 1930Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (died 2015)India
• 1929Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (died 2013)India
• 1883Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician 135th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1953)

Died on 4 November

• 2010Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (born 1934)
• 1957Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith (born 1897)
• 1946Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (born 1865)
• 1856Paul Delaroche, French painter and educator (born 1797)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 4 November in history?

1995: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. 1979: Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. 1970: Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation. 1970: Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

What happened on 4 November in Indian history?

1791: Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

Which famous people were born on 4 November?

Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast (1993); Tabu, Indian actress (1971); Ralph Macchio, American actor (1961); Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (died 2015) (1930).

Which day is observed on 4 November?

Community Service Day (Dominica); Flag Day (Panama); National Tonga Day (Tonga); National Unity and Armed Forces Day or Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate (Italy); Unity Day (Russia).