November 4 is:
King Tut Day, short for King Tutankhamun of Egypt. On November 4, 1922 – Howard Carter discovered the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb.
National Candy Day
Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois on November 4, 1842.
Birthday of James Fraser (November 4, 1876), American sculptor who designed the Indian head and buffalo on the pre-1938 U.S. nickle and whose sculpture includes statues of Hamilton, General George Patton and others. See Wikipedia for samples of his works.
Birthday of Will Penn Adair Rogers (1879), American humorist, cowboy, vaudeville performer, and author. In 1926 he said:
“America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can’t confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”
Birthday of former First Lady, Laura Bush (November 4, 1946), wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the U.S.; first lady 2001-2009.
Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran). Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981). They were released the day President Reagan was inaugurated.
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In 1939, the first air-conditioned automobile was exhibited by its manufacturer, Packard Motor Co. of Detroit Michigan. The public exhibition at the 40th Automobile Show in Chicago, Illinois ran between 4-12 Nov. Air in the car was cooled, dehumidified, filtered and circulated. Heat was provided for use in the winter. The refrigerating coils were located behind the rear seat in an air duct, with heating coils in another compartment of the same duct. The capacity of the unit was equivalent to 1.5 tons of ice in 24 hours when the car was driven at 60 mph. Cadillac followed in 1941. The huge evaporator left little room for luggage in the trunk, and the only way to shut it off was to stop, raise the hood, and remove the compressor belt.
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Birthday of Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793), American pioneer and colonizer of Texas, known as the “Father of Texas”
Birthday of William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794), American poet and newspaper editor of the New York Evening Post. His poetry has been described as being “of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers. Here’s the second verse of The Death of the Flowers:
The Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into space in 1957. She does not survive.
Birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (November 2, 1699), was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. Influenced Manet and Cézanne. Examples of his work can be found at 
Birthday of Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734), American pioneer, explorer, frontiersman. 
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The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage of 1520.
American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico on November 1, 1941. It would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Former First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, wife of 
October 31, 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther is believed to have nailed his 95 theses to Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany on this date.
Birthday of John Keats (October 31, 1795), English Romantic poet trained as a surgeon. John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
National Magic Day, honoring the skills of magicians and commemorating the death of the great Harry Houdini in 1926.
1941 After nearly 15 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota was completed; the colossal sculpture features the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
National Candy Corn Day
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In 1938 – Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, breaking the baseball color barrier.
The portrait of the Quaker man on the Quaker® Oats package has been updated just three times since its creation in 1877, once in 1946, again in 1957 and, most recently, in 1972.
Anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Raleigh (October 29, 1618), English military and naval commander of expeditions to North America. He led two expeditions in search of El Dorado or “City of Gold” in South America. The men under his command ransacked a Spanish outpost. Upon his return to England, to appease the Spanish, Raleigh was arrested and executed.
1704 Death of John Locke, an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “Father of Liberalism”. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. Internationally, Locke’s political-legal principles continue to have a profound influence on the theory and practice of limited representative government and the protection of basic rights and freedoms under the rule of law.
Former First Lady, Abigail Adams died of typhoid fever on this day in 1818; wife of 
Statue of Liberty Dedication Day, (1886). Originally known as Liberty Enlightening the World, it was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States. The statue’s completion was marked by New York’s first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. It was designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Its framework of gigantic steel supports was designed by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the latter famous for designing the Eiffel Tower.
1955: American computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates—who cofounded Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company—was born.
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1967: American actress Julia Roberts, whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, was born.
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1932 Birthday of Sylvia Plath, American poet best known for her novel ‘The Bell Jar,’ and for her poetry collections ‘The Colossus’ and ‘Ariel.’