On This Day November 4th: Know about the political, historical and cultural events that changed the world

November 4th marks many historical events that have changed the course of time as we know it. This day’s series captures some of the most important events that happened around the world. On this day, November 4, 2008, the first African-American president, Barack Obama, was elected. That same day in 1924, Nellie Tayloe became the first woman to hold the title of governor of a state in the United States.

November 4th important events

November 4th marks many historical events that have changed the course of time as we know it. This day’s series captures some of the most important events that happened around the world.

On this day, November 4, 2008, the first African-American president, Barack Obama, was elected.

That same day in 1924, Nellie Tayloe became the first woman to hold the title of governor of a state in the United States.

The world set sail towards a metamorphosis when UNESCO came into full force and invited international collaboration in education, science and culture on this day in 1946.

On this day, one of the world’s most popular children’s books and pop culture icon, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, had its first film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, released in London. And rest is history.

Learn more iconic facts and events that changed the world here!

POLICY

1. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.
2. In 1646, Massachusetts used the death penalty for rejecting the Holy Bible as the word of God.
3. In 1841, the first wagon train arrived in California after a five-and-a-half-month, 1,730-mile journey across the Sierra Nevada from Missouri.
4. In 1856, James Buchanan was elected the 15th president of the United States.
5. In 1884, Grover Cleveland won against James G. Blaine for his first presidential term. He was the only American president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
6. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge was elected president of the United States for a full term, after facing Democratic candidate John W. Davis.
7. In 1924, Miriam Ferguson became one of the first two women elected governor of Texas in the United States that day.
8. In 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross became one of the first two women elected governor of Wyoming in the United States, along with Miriam Ferguson, who became governor of Texas.
9. In 2014, Tim Scott became the first African-American senator in the South since Reconstruction.
10. In 1980, conservative Republican Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States.

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1. In 1946, UNESCO was created on that day and came into full force. A specialized UN agency called for promoting international collaboration in education, science and culture.
2. On this day in 1929, Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team began a two-and-a-half-month, 1,500-mile dog sled journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. This was the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
3. In 1861 the University of Washington was founded in Seattle.
4. In 2019, the largest mass commutation in US history took place on this day when 462 non-violent inmates were released from Oklahoma prisons as part of the state’s prison reforms.
5. In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun on that day.
6. In 1520, the Danish Norwegian king Christian II was crowned king of Sweden on that day.

WAR

1. In 1576, in the Eighty Years’ War, in Flanders, the Spanish defeated the Walloons and captured Antwerp that day.
2. In 1979, a hostage crisis began in Iran on this day when Iranian militants took over the United States embassy in Tehran in a meeting authorized by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
3. In 1429, Joan of Arc and Charles d’Albret liberated the heavily fortified town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier after a siege, that day.

LITERATURE

1. In 1948, the American-born British poet TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature on that day.

ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES

1. In 1862, American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patented the hand-cranked Gatling gun in Indianapolis on that day.
2. In 1879, African-American inventor Thomas Elkins patented the refrigeration apparatus.
3. In 1908, British scientist Joseph Rotblat, a prominent critic of nuclear weapons who, along with the Pugwash Lectures, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, was born on this day.
4. In 2017, Scottish champions Celtic set a new all-time British record (63) for unbeaten matches in all domestic football competitions by beating St. Johnstone 4-0 at McDiarmid Park that day.

SPORTS

1. In 1965, Lee Breedlove set the women’s land speed record of 308.56 MPH in Utah on this day.
2. In 2017, Scottish champions Celtic set a new all-time British record (63) for unbeaten matches in all domestic football competitions by beating St. Johnstone 4-0 at McDiarmid Park that day.

TV AND ENTERTAINMENT

1. In 2001, on this day, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” premiered in London, the first film adaptation of JK Rowling’s book series, starring Daniel Radcliffe, titled “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
2. In 1901, Clyde Fitch’s play “Way of the World” premiered in New York on that day.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1.	1969	Matthew McConaughey, American actor
2.	1972	Tabu, Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
3.	1929	Shakuntala Devi Indian writer also known as the “Human Computer”
4.	1845	Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian independence activist.
5.	1862	Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet and playwright.
6.	1876	James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (Indian Head (Buffalo) nickel),
7.	1925	Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker
8.	1873	GE Moore, English philosopher
9.	1881	Milton Rosmer, British director
10.	1884	Henry George Ferguson, Irish aviator, engineer and inventor

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