November 4th

See also: Category: Holidays November 4

National

•   United Kingdom - Guy Fawkes Night : November 4-5.
•   Italy - .
•   Russia - Day of National Unity .
  •   Udmurtia - Statehood Day of Udmurtia .
•   Ukraine - Railway Day .

  Religious

  In the catholic church ^[2]

• the memory of Prince Emerik of Hungary ( 1031 );
• memory of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo , one of the most prominent figures of the Counter-Reformation ( 1584 );
• memory of Vitaly and Agricola , martyrs from Bologna ( 304 ).

  In the Orthodox Church ^{[3] [4]}

• the celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (in memory of the deliverance of Moscow and Russia from the Poles in 1612 );
• memory of Equal-to-the-Apostles Averky, Bishop of Hierapolis, miracle worker (circa 167 );
• memory of seven youths, also in Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblichus, Martinian, Dionysius, Antoninus, Konstantin (Exakustodian) and John (about 250 years ; 408 - 450 years );
• the memory of the holy martyr Serafim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich , and with him Vladimir Sobolev, Alexander Andreev , Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Alexander Lebedev, presbyters and reverend martyrs German (Polyansky) and Mina (Shelaev) ( 1937 );
• memory of the holy martyr Nikolai Bogoslovsky, Nikolai Ushakov, presbyters and the reverend martyr Gregory (Vorobyov) ( 1937 );
• the memory of the martyrs Alexander Bishop of Adrianople, Heraclius the warrior and wives of Anna, Elizabeth, Theodotia and Glyceria ( II – III centuries );
• the acquisition of the relics of the holy martyr Nicodemus (Kononov) , Bishop of Belgorod ( 2012 );
• celebration of the Andronikov Icon of the Mother of God ;
• celebration of the Jacobstadt icon of the Mother of God ( XVII century ).

See also: Category: November 4 events

Until the 19th century

• 1493 - The expedition of Christopher Columbus opens the island of Guadeloupe .
• 1576 - during the Eighty Years War, Spanish troops capture Antwerp .
• 1582 - Ermak defeats the Siberian Khan Kuchum in the battle on the Chuvash cape and in 3 days enters the capital of his khanate - Isker .
• 1660 - surrender of the army of the boyar Vasily Sheremetev near Chudnov . Russia lost hope of conquering the lands of Right-Bank Ukraine.
• 1707 - a hospital was opened in Moscow (now the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko ).
• 1708 - Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa announced the termination of the alliance with Peter I and moved to join the forces of the Swedish king Charles XII .
• 1794 - Alexander Suvorov occupies Prague (a suburb of Warsaw ). The end of the Polish uprising .

XIX century

• 1815 - during an official dinner in Berlin , the Russian Emperor Alexander I and the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III announce the engagement of Tsarevich Nicholas (future Emperor Nicholas I ) and the Prussian Princess Charlotte (after the adoption of the Orthodox faith, which became Alexandra).
• 1848 - adoption by the Constituent Assembly of France of the Constitution of the Second French Republic , according to which the president is put in charge of the state.
• 1862 - Richard Gatling patented the world's first multi-barrel Revolving Battery Gun .
• 1879 - Jades Ritti patents the first cash register .
• 1890 - London opens the world's first underground electric road - the subway .

XX century

• 1911 - in Berlin between France and Germany signed the Franco-German agreement on Morocco and Congo .
• 1914 - on the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" ("Karlsruhe") there was an explosion of ammunition cellars. Killed 263 crew members, including the commander of the ship.
• 1917 - The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet announces that only the orders approved by it are recognized as valid.
• 1918 - A conference of the Allied Powers at Versailles develops an agreement on the terms of a truce with Germany.
• 1920 - V.I. Lenin signs decrees on the formation of the Votskaya , Mari and Kalmyk autonomous regions .
• 1921 - Takashi Hara , the Prime Minister of Japan , was assassinated at a Tokyo train station.
• 1922 - Englishman Howard Carter discovers the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt .
• 1924 - Republican Calvin Coolidge wins the US presidential election.
• 1936 - Saratov Puppet Theater “Teremok” begins work in Saratov
• 1938 - Jersey Island in the English Channel . Jersey Airways de Havilland DH-86 crashes. All 14 people on board die.
• 1940 - United Airlines Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashed into Bountiful Peak in the Wasatch Mountains as a result of a failure of navigation equipment during a snowstorm 3 nautical miles from Centerville ( Utah , USA ). All 10 people on board died.
• 1942
  • The general directors of self-government appointed by the Germans in the occupied territory of Latvia are starting to discuss the establishment of the Latvian Legion .
  • The Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) was founded.
• 1944 - Hartford , California , USA . After entering the thundercloud, the Trans Continental & Western Airways Douglas DC-3 aircraft detaches the wing due to strong turbulence. All 24 people on board die.
• 1946
  • A Sino-US Friendship and Mutual Trade Treaty has been concluded.
  • UNESCO , the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, was established in Paris .
• 1950 - Rome adopted the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, also known under the informal name of the European Convention on Human Rights .
• 1952
  • Earthquake in the Kuril Islands .
  • In the US presidential election, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower won the overwhelming victory.
  • The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II , who took the throne after the death of her father George VI , opens the first meeting of parliament.
• 1956
  • The beginning of Operation Whirlwind (the second stage of the entry of Soviet military units into Hungary and the assault of Budapest) under the command of Marshal G.K. Zhukov. Officially - at the invitation of the government, hastily created by Janos Kadar.
  • The first tests of the Tu-104 turbojet aircraft are carried out.
• 1957 - Il-14 catastrophe of the Romanian government near Moscow . Killed 4 people. Among the survivors is the future Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu .
• 1966 - severe flooding in the central and northern regions of Italy . In Florence , the Renaissance Art Center is flooded 2 meters from the floor.
• 1967
  • Fernhurst, Sussex, England . The plane crashes Sud Aviation Caravelle 10R of the Spanish company Iberia Airlines . All 37 people on board die. Depression too high at launch approach.
  • The Ostankino television tower was commissioned.
• 1968 - launch of the first domestic solid propellant ballistic missile RT-2 , Plesetsk .
• 1969 - Ryazan Writing Organization expels Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the Union of Writers of the USSR .
• 1970 - during a test flight, the British-French supersonic passenger airliner Concord doubles the speed of sound.
• 1972 - near Plovdiv ( Bulgaria ), the Il-14 P aircraft of the Balkan Bulgarian Airlines company touched the mountain during landing. All 35 people on board die.
• 1976 - Banjarmasin, Indonesia . The Fokker F-27 ° Friendship 100 aircraft of the Bali International Air Service crashes. Of the 38 people on board, 29 die.
• 1977 - The UN categorically prohibits arms transfers to South Africa .
• 1979 - The Iranian "revolutionary guard" captures the US embassy in Tehran .
• 1980 - Republican Ronald Reagan wins overwhelmingly in the US presidential election .
• 1981 - in Poland, negotiations between General Jaruzelski , Lech Walesa and Cardinal Glemp come to a standstill.
• 1995 - the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin is committed.

21st Century

• 2004 - The 2nd power unit of the Balakovo NPP was shut down due to a leak of clean demineralized water intended for supplying steam generators.
• 2008 - Barack Hussein Obama II wins the presidential election in the United States .
• 2009 - in Nizhny Novgorod the metro bridge was opened for automobile traffic.
• 2010 - massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya .
• 2011 - the cities of Kovrov , Lomonosov , Taganrog and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were awarded the honorary title City of Military Glory ^[5] .

See also: Category: Born on November 4

Until the 19th century

• 1650 - William III of Orange (d. 1702 ), ruler of the Netherlands (from 1672), king of England and Sweden (from 1689).
• 1470 - Edward V (d. After 1483 ), king of England (from April 9 to June 25, 1483).
• 1575 - Guido Reni (d. 1642 ), Italian painter.
• 1577 - father Joseph (real name Francois Leclair du Tramble ; d. 1638 ), French diplomat, Capuchin , the closest assistant to Cardinal Richelieu .
• 1784 - Osip Beauvais (d. 1834 ), Russian architect.
• 1800 - Nina (Nino) Chavchavadze (d. 1857 ), Georgian Princess, wife of A. S. Griboedov .

XIX century

• 1832 - Max Finchgau (d. 1913 ), Austrian physician , physiologist ; doctor of medicine ; member of Leopoldina ^[6] .
• 1840 - Dmitry Karakozov (executed in 1866 ), a revolutionary who unsuccessfully assassinated Alexander II .
• 1873 - George Moore (d. 1958 ), English philosopher-analyst.
• 1894
  • Pavel Rybalko (d. 1948 ), Marshal of the armored forces, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • Nikolai Otsup (d. 1958 ), Russian poet, translator and publisher, emigrant.
• 1897
  • Dmitry Pavlov (executed in 1941 ), Army General, Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • Alexandra Khokhlova (d. 1985 ), film actress, director, screenwriter, teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1899 - Ivan Pravov (d. 1971 ), Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• 1900 - Sergey Vasiliev (d. 1959 ), actor, film director and screenwriter, People's Artist of the USSR.

XX century

• 1911 - Dmitry Klyachkivsky (killed in 1945 ), Ukrainian nationalist, one of the leaders of the UPA .
• 1925 - Nikolai Prokopovich (d. 2005 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
• 1929 - Shakuntala Devi (d. 2013 ), Indian writer and phenomenal counter .
• 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe (d. 1989 ), American photographer.
• 1947 - Alexey Ulanov , Soviet figure skater, Olympic champion, 4-time world and European champion.
• 1956 - Igor Talkov (killed in 1991 ), Soviet singer, poet, songwriter.
• 1962 - Igor Savchenko , Belarusian photographer.
• 1965 - Wayne Static (d. 2014 ), American musician, vocalist of the band " Static-X ".
• 1966 - Sergey Trofimov , Russian poet, musician, singer.
• 1969
  • Matthew McConaughey , American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, Academy Award winner.
  • Alexander Moskalenko , Russian trampoline, the first Olympic champion in this sport.
• 1972 - Luis Figo , Portuguese soccer player, world football star.
• 1973 - Tatyana Alexandrova , Russian television journalist, TEFI prize winner.
• 1976
  • Justin Waddell , British actress.
  • Dmitry Yaroshenko , Russian biathlete.
• 1996 - Caitlin Hawaiik , American ice skater performing in ice dancing, Continental Champion (2018).

See also: Category: Dead on November 4

Until the 19th century

• 1248 - Sanshu II the Pious (b. 1207 ), the fourth king of Portugal (1223-1247).
• 1584 - Simon the Blessed , Orthodox saint, holy fool .
• 1764 - Charles Churchill (b. 1732 ), English poet and satirist.

XIX century

• 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. 1809 ), German composer, conductor, organist and pianist.
• 1856 - Paul Delaroche (b. 1797 ), French painter, founder of naturalistic historical painting.
• 1866 - Nikolai Muravyov-Karsky (b. 1794 ), Russian military leader, diplomat and traveler, governor of the emperor in the Caucasus (1854-1856).
• 1891 - Francisco Gomez de Amorim (born 1827 ), Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1892 - Florimon Hervé (b. 1825 ), French composer and organist, founder of the musical theater.

XX century

• 1904 - Adolf Marx (b. 1838 ), Russian book publisher.
• 1912 - Ilya Zion (b. 1842 ), Russian and French physiologist, doctor of medicine, professor, agent of the Ministry of Finance of Russia in France, international adventurer and financial speculator.
• 1919 - Sofia Tolstaya (b. 1844 ), wife of the writer L.N. Tolstoy .
• 1962 - Ivan Maryanenko (b. 1878 ), theater and film actor, theater teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1964 - Raisa Kudasheva (b. 1878 ), Soviet writer, author of the song "A Christmas tree was born in the forest . "
• 1969 - Juan Carlos Marigella (b. 1911 ), Brazilian revolutionary, writer, “father of urban guerilla ”.
• 1972
  • Yuri Galanskov (b. 1939 ), Russian Soviet poet.
  • Boris Sotskov (b. 1908 ), Soviet scientist and teacher, specialist in the field of mechanics and automation.
• 1973 - Vsevolod Kochetov (b. 1912 ), Russian Soviet writer.
• 1985 - Vasily Ordynsky (b. 1923 ), film director, screenwriter, actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1994 - Sam Francis (b. 1923 ), American artist and graphic artist.
• 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin (born 1922 ), Israeli Prime Minister, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1994) is killed.
• 1995 - Gilles Deleuze (b. 1925 ), French philosopher.
• 1996 - Konstantin Loktev (b. 1933 ), Soviet hockey player, Olympic champion (1964), three-time world champion.
• 1999
  • Zvi Griliches (b. 1930 ), American economist.
  • Harold Registan (b. 1924 ), Soviet and Russian songwriter.

21st Century

• 2004 - Eduard Pashinyan (b. 1923 ), Armenian Soviet musicologist, teacher, composer.
• 2006 - Alitet Nemtushkin (b. 1929 ), Evenki writer, poet.
• 2008 - Michael Crichton (b. 1942 ), American science fiction writer.
• 2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey (b. 1915 ), American physicist, Nobel laureate (1989).

Kazan autumn .

• On this day, they tried to play a wedding, because it was believed: “Whoever marries Kazan will be happy” ^[7] .
• If the day begins to fog - be thawed.
• If it rains , then after the rain, winter will come: “it will rain in Kazan in the morning, and in the evening snow will fall in the snowdrifts” .
• On Kazan a clear day - for cooling.
• There was a popular belief: when a young girl thought that she didn’t come out of her face, that’s why she didn’t like her, she tried to get up to Kazan early and go to the grove . There she looked for a birch leaf that hung low on a tree and was wrapped in frost. If you look at such a sheet (as if in a silver mirror), then all the plainness will disappear from the face ^[8] .