Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 4

Images
Use only ONE image at a time

Eligible

 * 1890 – London's City and South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running a distance of 3.2 mi between the City of London and Stockwell.
 * 1912 – The keel of USS Nevada (BB-36) was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
 * 1922 – The tomb of Tutankhamun (pictured) was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
 * 1938 – The Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of several thousand Jews from the country.
 * 1944 – Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
 * 1964 – Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK and secretly exiled to Turkey.
 * 1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
 * 2008 – Barack Obama (pictured) became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
 * 2016 – The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.


 * Born/died: | Hu Zongxian |b|1512| John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester |d|1576| Felix Mendelssohn |d|1847| Dolly Stark |b|1897| Joseph Rotblat |b|1908 Shakuntala Devi |b|1929| Shoghi Effendi |d|1957| Tabu |b|1971|