November 4 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 4

• 1946Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
• 1969Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer
• 1957Tony Abbott, English-Australian scholar and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1972Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer and sportscaster
• 1933Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1998Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
• 1969Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1908Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1879Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter
• 1916Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer

What happened on November 4

• 1493Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.
• 1852Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
• 1890The City and South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
• 1922The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
• 1922In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1924In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
• 1952Robert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.
• 1960At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
• 1970Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
• 1970Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
• 2008Barack Obama became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
• 2016The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.

Also observed on November 4

• Community Service Day (Dominica)
• Flag Day (Panama)
• National Tonga Day (Tonga)
• Unity Day (Russia)
• Yitzhak Rabin Memorial (unofficial, but widely commemorated)