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Events on November 4

• 1493 During his second voyage, Christopher Columbus lands as the first European on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Unfamiliar pineapples are offered to him and his crew as a welcome gift.
• 1899 Sigmund Freud's early major work The Interpretation of Dreams is published—backdated by the author to the year 1900.
• 1901 Following the ideals of Romanticism, the German Wandervogel is founded as a bourgeois youth movement by Karl Fischer in Steglitz near Berlin.
• 1921 The "NSDAP Assembly Protection" founded by Ernst Röhm is given the official name Sturmabteilung (SA).
• 1950 In Rome, the European Convention on Human Rights is signed within the framework of the Council of Europe.
• 1968 The Battle of Tegeler Weg becomes a significant turning point in the history of the APO of the '68 movement
• 1986 With the 4th Radio Judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court underpins the dual broadcasting system in Germany.
• 1989 As the largest non-state demonstration in GDR history, around one million people gather in East Berlin during the Peaceful Revolution for the Alexanderplatz demonstration, demanding freedom of expression and assembly and a reformed GDR.
• 1999 The CDU donation scandal begins with an arrest warrant for Walther Leisler Kiep.
• 2006 Western Europe experiences a power outage, the largest in 30 years: Approximately 10 million people in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Spain are without power for up to two hours.
• 2008 With a comfortable lead, Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States as the first African American.
• 2011 The right-wing extremist terrorists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, members of the core trio of the National Socialist Underground, are tracked down by police after a bank robbery in Eisenach (Thuringia) and found dead in their camper van.

Born on November 4

• 1868 La Belle Otéro, Spanish revue dancer, singer and mistress
• 1890 Klabund, German writer
• 1922 Benno Besson, German theatre director
• 1930 Doris Roberts, American actress
• 1932 Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician
• 1960 Frl. Menke, German singer
• 1961 Ralph Macchio, American actor
• 1962 Ixi, German singer
• 1972 Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 Carsten Lichtlein, German handball goalkeeper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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