Public Holidays on November 4

• 🌍 Unity Day (Russia)
• 🌍 День народного единства (Russia)

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On This Day in History — November 4

• 2015 — A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing 37 people.
• 2015 — A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths, at least 100 injured.
• 2010 — Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew were killed.
• 2010 — Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469...
• 2008 — Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
• 2002 — Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.

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Notable Births on November 4

• 1997 — Bea Binene, Filipina television actress
• 1996 — Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer
• 1996 — Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
• 1996 — John Olive, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 — Billy Stanlake, Australian cricketer
• 1993 — Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast

Notable Deaths on November 4

• 2017 — Isabel Granada, Filipino-Spanish actress and singer (b. 1976)
• 2016 — Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian football player and coach (b. 1946)
• 2015 — Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American historian and journalist (b. 1946)
• 2015 — René Girard, French-American historian, philosopher, and critic (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (b. 1950)
• 2015 — Lee Robinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1943)

Sports on November 4

• College Football: Ohio Bobcats @ Akron Zips — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Utah Mammoth @ Toronto Maple Leafs — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Winnipeg Jets @ Montreal Canadiens — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Detroit Red Wings @ Tampa Bay Lightning — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: St. Louis Blues @ New York Rangers — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Minnesota Wild @ Philadelphia Flyers — 00:00 UTC Scheduled

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On This Day in History — November 5

• 2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing up to 9 deaths and 19 missing.
• 2013 — India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
• 2009 — U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
• 2007 — China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
• 2007 — Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
• 2006 — Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

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Notable Births on November 5

• 1993 — Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model
• 1992 — Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
• 1992 — Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
• 1991 — Flume, Australian DJ and producer
• 1991 — Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1989 — Andrew Boyce, English footballer

Notable Deaths on November 5

• 2015 — George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 — Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)

Sports on November 5

• NBA: Philadelphia 76ers @ Detroit Pistons — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Atlanta Hawks @ Washington Wizards — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• College Football: Ball State Cardinals @ Massachusetts Minutemen — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• College Football: Toledo Rockets @ Sacramento State Hornets — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Milwaukee Bucks @ Boston Celtics — 00:30 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Charlotte Hornets @ Brooklyn Nets — 00:30 UTC Scheduled

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