Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 4
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November 4: Flag Day in Panama, Unity Day in Russia.
- 1852 - Count Cavour (pictured) became prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1869 - Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals, was first published.
- 1890 - In London, England, the City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened.
- 1979 - Hundreds of Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis.
- 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was mortally wounded by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
Recent days: November 3 – November 2 – November 1
