November 4

1429 – During the 3rd phase of the Hundred Years War, French forces lead by Jean of Arc liberates the city of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier from Elglish occupation.

1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico on his second voyage.

1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange, later jointly reigning as William and Mary.

1780 – Aymara and Quechua indians, led by Túpac Amaru II revolt against Spanish rule in Peru.

1783 – Wolfgang Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians, led by Chiefs Little Turtle of the Miami, Blue Jacket of the Shawnee, and Buckongahelas of the Delaware, wins a major victory over U.S forces led by General Arthur St. Clair, in the Battle of the Wabash, near Fort Recovery, Ohio

1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform.

1864 – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, destroying millions of dollars of war materiel.

1918 – During World War I, Italy and Austria-Hungary sign an armistice.

1922 –British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt

1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

1939 – President Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash and carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

1942 – During the Africa campaign of World War II: General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel disobeys a direct order by Adolf Hitler and begins a retreat of his forces after being defeated at El Alamein.

1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.

1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground series of high-altitude nuclear weapons tests, before the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty goes into effect

1979 – A group of purported Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages.

1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of The United States

1995 – Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.

2008 – Barack Hussein Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States.