Monday, November 4, 2024

1333 – The River Arno flooding causes massive damage in Florence, Italy.

1576 – The Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp, a major economic blow to the Dutch.

1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later become co-rulers of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1791 – The Western Confederacy defeats the United States in the Battle of the Wabash (also known as St. Clair’s Defeat), the most decisive loss suffered by the U.S. against Native American forces.

1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Johnsonville ends, with Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest destroying a Union supply depot.

1921 – The Sturmabteilung (SA) or Brownshirts hold their first major public rally in Germany.

1922 – British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team discover the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.

1956 – Soviet troops enter Budapest to suppress the Hungarian Revolution, marking a key moment in Cold War history.

1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, becoming the world’s first democratically elected Marxist president.

 2008 – Barack Obama is elected as the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the office.