Year 1791
The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
NOVEMBER 4
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4 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 4 November.
Year 1918
In World War I, Austria and Hungary surrendered to Italy.
Year 1921
Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi in Tokyo.
Year 1922
Discovery of the main entrance to the famous pyramid of King Tutankhamen.
Year 1931
Mahatma Gandhi paid a visit to Buckingham Palace clad in his loin cloth and homespun shawl, and met India's Emperor on this date. Gandhi's sandals pattered on the floor as he crossed the drawing room to greet King George V and Queen Mary.
Year 1948
Dr. The incident committee headed by Babasaheb Ambedkar presented the draft constitution.
Year 1948
To supplement the Tiger Moths, Prentice basic trainers were delivered to the RIAF during the course of 1948, eventually to see service at Jodhpur, Tambaram and Ambala, but truly epoch making in so far as the Service was concerned was the arrival of three Vampire F.Mk.3 jet fighters in India on November 4, 1948 .
Year 1954
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute established at Darjiling.
Year 1997
Kerala's largest railway overbridge at Ambalapuzha opened.
Year 1997
Guddi, world's shortest woman standing just one metre above the ground, gives birth to her fourth child.
Year 1997
UNESCO named 8 scientists laureates of the five 1997 science prizes for their contribution. Prof. Dorairajan Balasubramanian (58), Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology of Hyderabad were named Laureate of Kalinga prize for popularisation of Science.
Year 1998
Viswanathan Anand wins the 3rd Fontys chess tournament at Tilburg. Paramjeet Singh upstages Milkha Singh's 38-year-old 400m record at the national open athletic championship at Calcutta.
Year 2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone premiered in London.
Year 2008
Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States.
Born 1845
Vasudeo Balvant Phadke, great revolutionary, social reformer and father of armed freedom fighting movement, was born at Shirdhon village in Raigad district.
Born 1871
Sharad Chandra Roy, Indian anthropologist.
Born 1884
Jamnalal Bajaj, a famous Gandhian activist, freedom fighter, and founder of Bajaj Industries.
Born 1884
Harry Ferguson, Irish-born British mechanic, inventor of the tractor.
Born 1889
Jamnalal Bajaj, industrialist, social reofrmer and freedom fighter, was born in the village of Kashi -Ka -Bas near Jaipur.
Born 1897
Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist.
Born 1916
Ruth Handler, maker of the Barbie doll.
Born 1925
Rutwik Kumar Ghatak, famous film producer and actor, was born.
Born 1929
Jaikishan Dahyabhai Panchal, Indian music composer.
Born 1929
Shankutala Devi, great mathematician, was born. She had then defeated the computer in making mental major calculation.
Born 1930
Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Indian pharmacologist and academic.
Born 1930
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (d. 2015)
Born 1950
Nig Powell, co-founder of the Virgin Group.
Born 1955
Alhaj Moulana Ghousavi Shah, Indian author, poet, and scholar
Born 1971
Tabu, Indian actress
Born 1986
Suhas Gopinath, Indian businessman
Died 1656
Mohammed Adil Shah passed away.
Died 1915
Sir Pherozeshah Mehta also refered as the "Lion of Bombay" died in Bombay. He was founder of the English newspaper, "Bombay Chronicle", and was knighted in 1904. He was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bombay in 1910 and was founder of Central Bank of India.
Died 1918
Wilfred Owen, an English poet, and soldier.
Died 1970
Pt. Shambhu Maharaj, Indian-Kathak dancer of Lucknow family. The great Kathak dance master and King of India, passed away.
Died 1974
Ahindra Chaudhary, famous Bengali film and stage artist, passed away.
Died 1992
George Klein, maker of a motor-wheelchair.
Died 1995
Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s fifth prime minister, defense minister, and Nobel laureate.
Died 1998
Nagarjuna, Indian-Hindi poet.
Died 1999
Malcolm Denzil Marshall, West Indies cricketer.
Died 2008
John Michael Crichton, an American author, and filmmaker.
Died 2011
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., an American physicist.