4 November
Notable Births
Darja Varfolomeev
b. 2006
German rhythmic gymnast
Tyrese Maxey
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Sun Yingsha
b. 2000
Chinese table tennis player
Achraf Hakimi
b. 1998
Morocco international footballer (born 1998)
Kaitlin Hawayek
b. 1996
American ice dancer (born 1996)
Michael Christian Martinez
b. 1996
Filipino figure skater (born 1996)
John Olive (rugby league)
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer
Eric Paschall
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Billy Stanlake
b. 1994
Australian cricketer
Ce'Aira Brown
b. 1993
American middle-distance runner
Elisabeth Seitz
b. 1993
German artistic gymnast
Taylor Tomlinson
b. 1993
American stand-up comedian (b. 1993)
Yurii Bieliaiev
b. 1992
Belarusian ice dancer
Julian Wießmeier
b. 1992
German footballer (born 1992)
Alon Day
b. 1991
Israeli racing driver (born 1991)
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
b. 1991
Dutch tennis player
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
b. 1990
Canadian actor (born 1990)
Dez Bryant
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
David Mead (rugby league)
b. 1988
Papua New Guinea international rugby league footballer
Nathan Ross (rugby league)
b. 1988
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Bernard Marcus
d. 2024
American billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1929–2024)
Murray Sinclair
d. 2024
Canadian lawyer and politician (1951–2024)
Akbar Golpayegani
d. 2023
Iranian singer (1934–2023)
Ken Hensley
d. 2020
English musician (1945–2020)
Gay Byrne
d. 2019
Irish television and radio presenter (1934–2019)
Isabel Granada
d. 2017
Filipina actress and singer
Ned Romero
d. 2017
American actor and opera singer
Mansour Pourheidari
d. 2016
Iranian footballer and coach (1946–2016)
Piotr Domaradzki
d. 2015
Polish-American journalist (1946–2015)
René Girard
d. 2015
French anthropologist and philosopher (1923–2015)
Károly Horváth
d. 2015
Musical artist
Lee Robinson (politician)
d. 2015
American mayor
Enrique Olivera
d. 2014
Argentine politician (1940–2014)
John D. Hawk
d. 2013
American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Leonid Stolovich
d. 2013
Russian-Estonian philosopher
Ray Willsey
d. 2013
American gridiron football player and coach (1928–2013)
David Resnick
d. 2012
Israeli architect and town planner
Andy Rooney
d. 2011
American radio and television journalist, commentator, and author (1919–2011)
Cy Young
d. 1955
American baseball player (1867–1955)
Paul Delaroche
d. 1856
French painter (1797–1856)
On This Day in History
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2025
UPS Airlines Flight 2976, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F crashes into multiple buildings during takeoff at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 people, including the 3 crew members.
UPS Airlines Flight 2976
2022
The Khash massacre, which refers to the repression of protesters by Iranian security forces, resulting in 18 deaths and more than 20 injuries.
2022 Khash massacre
2020
The Tigray War begins with Tigrayan rebels launching attacks on Ethiopian command centers.
Tigray war
2015
A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
2015 Juba Antonov An-12 crash
2015
A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
2015 Lahore factory disaster
2010
Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus; all 68 passengers and crew are killed.
Aero Caribbean Flight 883
2010
Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.
Qantas Flight 32
2008
Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
Barack Obama
2002
Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
He Depu
1995
Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1993
China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport.
China Airlines Flight 605
1980
Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
Ronald Reagan
1979
Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
Iran hostage crisis
1973
The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1973 oil crisis
1970
Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
Vietnam War
1970
Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
Salvador Allende
1967
Iberia Flight 062 crashes in Blackdown, West Sussex, killing all 37 people on board including British actress June Thorburn.
Iberia Flight 062
1966
The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Venice is also submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm (76 in).
Arno
1962
The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Operation Fishbowl
1960
At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
Kasakela chimpanzee community