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November 4, 2026 · Starting event: The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal (1851)

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1. 1068
   Politics

   Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor

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2. 1620
   Books

   Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum

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3. 1636
   Landmarks

   Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands

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4. 1757
   Birth

   William Blake, English poet and artist, is born

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5. 1795
   Birth

   Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia, is born

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6. 1811
   War

   Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas

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7. 1840
   Invention

   Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph

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8. 1851
   LandmarksStarting event

   The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal

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9. 1867
   Disaster

   The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina

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10. 1884
    History

    Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting

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11. 1903
    Art

    John William Waterhouse paints Echo and Narcissus

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12. 1924
    History

    The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union

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13. 1942
    War

    World War II: The Battle of Gazala begins, in present-day Libya

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14. 1945
    Space

    The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip

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15. 1950
    History

    The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea

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16. 1979
    Cars

    The Mercedes-Benz W126 car is introduced

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17. 1982
    Politics

    President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated

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18. 1988
    Comics

    The comic Akira first appears

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19. 2007
    Music

    Katy Perry releases the song "Ur So Gay"

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20. 2014
    Music

    Iggy Azalea releases the song "Problem"

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21. 2021
    Books

    Ryanair Flight 4978 was forced to land by Belarusian authorities, who detained dissident journalist Roman Protasevich

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