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Events from History on November 04

1501 : Philip de Blank & Juana "la Loca" depart to Spain
1519 : Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520 : Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 : English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1576 : Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium
1619 : Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia
1631 : Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1645 : Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly
1646 : Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word
1675 : -5] Storm hits about West-Europe: flood in Amsterdam
1771 : Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant," premieres in Paris
1841 : 1st wagon train arrives in California
1842 : Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 : 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 : Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1854 : Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island
1856 : James Buchanan elected US president
1861 : University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 : Richard Gatling patents Gatling gun
1864 : Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
1864 : Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1866 : Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 : 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1873 : Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1874 : Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
1875 : "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies
1875 : Tonga adopts constitution
1876 : John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1879 : Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 : James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by
1879 : bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
1880 : 1st cash register patented by James & John Ritty of Dayton Ohio
1884 : Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st pres term
1886 : Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia," premieres
1889 : Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1890 : Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 : Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London)
1890 : St Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
1893 : Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland
1901 : Clyde Fitch' "Way of the World," premieres in NYC
1905 : Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1908 : Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in NYC
1909 : Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1911 : Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1911 : France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1914 : Russia declares Turkey the war
1914 : Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete," NYC)
1918 : Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
1922 : Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1924 : British Labour govt of MacDonald, resigns
1924 : Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
1924 : US president Calvin Coolidge re-elected
1926 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1603 Neva
1928 : Jos‚ Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1929 : John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in NYC
1931 : Jean Genet's "Judith," premieres in Paris
1932 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1249 Rutherfordia
1933 : Hermann G”ring & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1933 : Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1937 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1459 Magnya
1939 : 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 : US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1940 : Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
1942 : 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing
1943 : France arrests government of Lebanon
1944 : German troops reconquer Schmidt Hrtgenwald
1944 : RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1946 : "Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1946 : UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 : TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1949 : "One Man's Family" premieres on TV
1950 : "Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1950 : "Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1950 : Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon
1950 : US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
1951 : NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1952 : Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
1952 : Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1953 : Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's
1953 : New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of
1953 : the pitch or the balk
1954 : "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1954 : Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 : 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 : Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1956 : USSR sends tanks into Hungary & threatens to bomb Budapest
1957 : 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 : Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 : Belgian govt of Eyskens, resigns
1958 : Democrats win US congressional election
1960 : "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 : Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 : John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line
1965 : Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 : Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 : Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 : WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 : WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 : Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1972 : Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 : Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 : 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 : M Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in NYC
1975 : Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1976 : 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi,
1976 : Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
1977 : 2nd reentry free-agent draft, Lyman Bostock, Goose Gossage,
1977 : Larry Hisle, Mike Torrez, & Oscar Gamble, available
1977 : UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1978 : 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, &
1978 : Darrell Evans, available
1978 : Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 : 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1980 : Libyan invasion in Chad
1980 : Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1980 : Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
1981 : Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," premieres in NYC
1981 : Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1981 : Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive
1981 : E F Helin & R S Dunbar discover asteroid #3360
1981 : drugs for Elvis Presley
1982 : Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983 : Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1984 : Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1987 : Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1987 : Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1987 : Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
1989 : Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 : Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1990 : "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
1990 : 20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
1990 : Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 : Sec of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1991 : Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
1992 : NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1992 : NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
1993 : "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1993 : Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet
1993 : Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
1993 : R H McNaught discovers asteroid #6461
1993 : Sunday Mirror ordered to pay Elton John $518,700 for false report
1994 : Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan

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