On This Day in History November 4, 2023

Historical Events 1576  Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp 1841  First wagon train arrives in California after a five and a half month and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri 1845  First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1862  American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis 1879  African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus 1922  Howard Carter rediscovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamunin Egypt 2008  Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Harry Ferguson 1884 - 1960 Kathy Griffin 63rd Birthday Shakuntala Devi 1929 - 2013 Will Rogers 1879 - 1935 More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Felix Mendelssohn 1809 - 1847 Manuel Azaña 1880 - 1940 More Famous Deaths November 4: Strange Meeting for War Poet Owen's Brother Soldier-poet Wilfred Owen was killed on this day in history – a death that his brother would sense in an extraordinary and inexplicable experience. Read the Article