11-04-2004, 06:39 AM
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November 4th
1847 ~ Death of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1869 ~ The first issue of scientific journal Nature was published.
1922 ~ In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 ~ Death of Gabriel Fauré, French composer.
1942 ~ World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel led his forces on a five-month retreat.
1946 ~ Birthday of Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States.
1948 ~ T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1956 ~ Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands were killed, more are wounded and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1979 ~ Iran hostage crisis began: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invaded the United States embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages (63 of whom are American).
1995 ~ The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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