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This is a list of selected November 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Flag Day in Panama refimprove sections
; Unity Day in Russia unreferenced section
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, currently the oldest active opera house in Europe, was inaugurated. refimprove
1780 – In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms. Page numbers needed
1791Northwest Indian War: In the most severe defeat ever suffered by U.S. forces at the hands of Native Americans, the Western Confederacy won a major victory at the Battle of the Wabash near present-day Fort Recovery in Ohio. Too much uncited
1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform on humans. Too much uncited
1852Count Cavour became Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy. refimprove section
1869Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, was first published. refimprove section
1889Menelik II, who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. neutrality issues
1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time. unreferenced section
1960 – At the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool creation by non-human animals. unreferenced section
1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and damaging or destroying millions of books and paintings. refimprove section
1970Salvador Allende took office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. unreferenced section
1979Hundreds of Iranian students supporting the Iranian Revolution seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis. refimprove section
1991 – Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos was granted a presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino and allowed to return from exile. missing page numbers
Kathy Griffin |b|1960 unreferenced filmography, awards sections

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November 4: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2024); National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy

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