November 4th
1904 -- First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1911 -- France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco & Congo
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 -- California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis : A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehranand takes 90 hostages.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th Presidentof The United States , defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter .
1993 – China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400 , overruns the runway at Kai Tak Airport .
1995 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident
He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress .
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
2015 -- Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women.
Compiled by Omoyeni Olayemi
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