Daily Calendar for Sunday, November 4, 2029
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Sunday, November 4, 2029
Born
- Guido Reni (artist) –
- Benjamin F. Goodrich (manufacturer) –
- Will Rogers (humorist) –
- Walter Cronkite (newscaster) –
- Art Carney (actor) –
- Doris Roberts (actress) –
- Shakuntala Devi (computational genius) –
- Loretta Swit (actress) –
- Laura Bush (U.S. First Lady) –
- Ralph Macchio (actor) –
- Jeff Probst (host of Survivor) –
- Matthew McConaughey (actor) –
Died
- Felix Mendelssohn (composer) –
- Grover Cleveland Alexander (baseball player) –
- Cy Young (baseball player) –
- Albert Franklin Yeager (horticulturist) –
- Dominique Dunne (actress) –
- Michael Crichton (author) –
- Andy Rooney (news commentator) –
Events
- Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd were married –
- The Royal Montreal Golf Club (oldest golf club in North America) was founded –
- An earthquake shook New York state, New England, and eastern Canada –
- An earthquake rang bells in the Notre Dame basilica in Montreal –
- The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio –
- Grover Cleveland elected president of the U.S. –
- Sergei Rachmaninoff’s first piano recital in the U.S., Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts –
- T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature –
- Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president of the U.S. –
- Ronald Reagan elected president of U.S. –
- The biggest ever solar flare, sunspot 486, saturated X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites for 11 minutes. It was estimated to be an X40-class solar flare –
- Ranaga Farbiarz erected a then-record 35-foot 10-inch tall wind chime in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. –
- Senator Barack Obama was elected U.S. president. This marked the first time in U.S. history that an African American was elected to the position –
- EPOXI spacecraft flew by comet Hartley 2 –
Weather
- Tropical rains flooded the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state –