Page 6: Historical Events In November - 04

1951  9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US) on this day in history.   

1952  On this day in history eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)   

1952  On November - 04 earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America   

1953  On November - 04 eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's   

1953  Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89 on November - 04.   

1954  "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances on November - 04.   

1954  On November - 04 stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31   

1955  The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II on this day in history.   

1956  200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest on November - 04.   

1956  Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt on November - 04.   

1956  On this day in history art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46   

1957  On this day in history 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched   

1957  Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78 on November - 04.   

1963  On this day in history john Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line   

1965  Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) on this day in history.   

1965  Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77 on November - 04.   

1966  Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf.   

1967  June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36 on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78   

1969  On this day in history carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle   

1971  USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile on this day in history.   

1973  Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1974  Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1975  Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54 on November - 04.   

1978  Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U on this day in history.   

1979  On November - 04 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)   

1980  Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide on November - 04.   

1980  Ronald Reagan elected 40th President of the US on this day in history.   

1981  On November - 04 columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining   

1982  Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23 on November - 04.   

1984  Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% on November - 04.   

1984  Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95 on this day in history.   

1986  Democrats gain control over the US Senate on this day in history.   

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1448  On this day in history birth of king Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)   

1575  Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642) was born on November - 04.   

1587  Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1590  On November - 04 birth of gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter   

1640  On this day in history birth of carlo Mannelli, composer   

1650  On this day in history birth of william III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)   

1656  Leonard Sailer, composer was born on this day in history.   

1661  On November - 04 birth of karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)   

0644  Death of Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered on November - 04.   

1203  On November - 04 dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies   

1411  On this day in history death of khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)   

1652  Death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597) on November - 04.   

1658  Death of Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608) on this day in history.   

1669  Death of Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603) on November - 04.   

1674  On this day in history kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72   

1698  On November - 04 death of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)