Wednesday, November 4, 2009

This was 308th day of the year and 57 days remained in the year.


November 4 Birthdays

Laura Bush
1946-, First Lady

Will Rogers
actor, humorist (1879)

 Harry George Ferguson
inventor (1884)

 Walter Cronkite
news broadcaster (1916)

 Art Carney
actor (1918)

 Loretta Swit
actor (1937)

 Diddy
producer, musician (1969)

 Matthew McConaughey
actor (1969)

 Luis Figo
soccer player (1972)

November 4 in History

1842

Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.

1880

James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.

1922

Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

1924

Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office.

1956

Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.

1979

The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage.

1995

Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.

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