What Happened on Nov 4

Abraham Lincoln Weds Mary Todd

On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky. The couple had four sons. Robert Todd... Read more

Battle of Johnsonville

Description: In an effort to check the Union army’s advance through Georgia, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led a 23-day raid culminating in an... Read more

Edison Improves Carbon Filament Lamp

Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp in 1878. Edison filed his first patent application for... Read more

Grover Cleveland is Elected US President

On November 4, 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland defeated Republican James G. Blaine ending a particularly acrimonious campaign. The outcome of the... Read more

Auguste Deter is the First Person Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease

On November 4th, 1906, during a lecture at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tübingen, the German neuropathologist and... Read more

Walter Cronkite Is Born

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening... Read more

Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge

The Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge was a small battle fought between forces of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army against the Imperial Japanese... Read more

Jersey Airport Disaster of 1938

In the late 1930s Islanders were becoming increasingly familiar with civilian air travel, but a terrible accident in 1938 served as a harsh... Read more

Norton Fitzwarren Rail Crash

The winter of 1940-1 brought fears of bombing raids from Germany. Stations that were hit included Bristol, Birmingham, Birkenhead and Plymouth but... Read more

Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer are Divorced

Pfeiffer married Hemingway on May 10, 1927 but the match was difficult. She was wealthy and he was a best-selling author (The Sun Also Rises) with... Read more

Oliver Samuels is Born

Oliver Adolphus Samuels, actor and comedian was born November 4, 1948 in Harmony Hall, St. Mary. He grew up on a banana plantation where his father... Read more

"The Snake Pit" Is Released

The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. It stars... Read more

Agatha Christie publishes 4.50 from Paddington

4.50 from Paddington is detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 4 1957, and in... Read more

Sean Combs is Born

Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), known by his stage name Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer,... Read more

David Bowie releases Space Oddity

Space Oddity is a 1969 album by rock musician David Bowie. Originally released by Philips in the UK as David Bowie and by Mercury in the U.S. as... Read more

David Bowie releases The Man Who Sold the World

The Man Who Sold the World is the third studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released on Mercury Records in November 1970 in the United... Read more

Birth of Karis Jagger, Mick Jagger's First Child, to Marsha A. Hunt

Hunt said in 1991 that she met Mick Jagger when the Rolling Stones asked Hunt to pose for an ad for "Honky Tonk Women", which she refused to do... Read more

Iran Hostage Crisis Begins - Iranian Militants Seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran

TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of Iranian school students bused in for the occasion crowded outside the former U.S. Embassy on Monday, burning American... Read more

Bill Clinton loses re-election bid for Arkansas Governor

Later that year, in a close election, Governor Clinton lost the race for a second term to Republican Frank White. Feeling that he had not... Read more

Reagan Wins the 1980 US Presidential Election

After receiving the Republican nomination, Reagan selected one of his primary opponents, George H.W. Bush, to be his running mate. His showing in... Read more

Ronald Reagan Wins the 1984 Presidential Election

Reagan accepted the Republican nomination in Dallas, Texas, on a wave of positive feeling. He proclaimed that it was "morning again in America," in... Read more

The Clash release Cut the Crap

Cut the Crap is the sixth and final album by the British punk rock band The Clash, released on 4 November 1985 by Epic Records. Following the... Read more

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Opens to the Public

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs is the presidential library and final resting place of Ronald Wilson Reagan,... Read more

"The Opera" - Season 4 Episode 9 of Seinfeld First Airs

"The Opera" is the 49th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 9th episode for the 4th season. It aired on November 4, 1992. Plot... Read more

"The Non-Fat Yogurt" - Season 5 Episode 7 of Seinfeld Premiers

"The Non-Fat Yogurt" is the seventy-first episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 7th episode for the 5th season. It aired on November 4,... Read more