📜 This Day in History

November 4

• 1780Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
• 1912The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
• 1922The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
• 1952Robert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.
• 1995Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
• 2025A UPS Airlines plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least twelve people.

Born on this day

• 1946Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
• 1951Traian Băsescu, Romanian captain and politician, 4th President of Romania
• 1957Tony Abbott, English-Australian scholar and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1969Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer