(-) Composer Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn dies of a stroke at the age of 38 in Leipzig, Germany.
97 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1916
(+) CBS Anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1922
(x) 48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 November 1935
(x) In an unsolved bomb-attack, the 2 perpetrators, 23-year-old Hugh Rutkowski and 19-year-old Paul Chovoncee are killed, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 November 1937
(+) Actress Loretta Swit aka “Hot Lips” Houlihan, is born in Passaic, New Jersey, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 November 1946
(+) SM-photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is born in Queens, New York, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 November 1955
(-) Criminologist and co-inventor of the lie-detector August “Gus” Vollmer commits suicide by suffering of cancer and Parkinson's Disease at the age of 77 in Berkeley, California, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 November 1956
(+) Playboy John Paul Getty III is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1972
(-) Michael Baulch is tortured and shot in the head by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 November 1973
(-) Laura O’Dell is presumably strangled as thirty-ninth victim by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, United States.
(-) Frank Landigin is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 November 1979
(x) 67 Americans are taken hostage in the US-embassy in Teheran, Iran.
They will remain there for 444 days.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 November 1985
(x) Twenty-first bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Charleroi, Brussels-Lambert Bank, Brussels, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 November 1985
(x) Twenty-second bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, General Bank, Brussels, Belgium.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 November 1988
(-) The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater dies at the age of 117 in Glen Burnie, Maryland, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1989
(-) William T. Grissom and 24-year-old Julie and 8-year-old Seanis are killed by Danny Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, at the age of 55 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1995
(-) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze commits suicide by jumping through the window of his apartment at the age of 70 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 November 1995
(-) 5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzak Rabin is shot dead by 25-year-old Yigal Amir during a peace-demonstration at the age of 73 in Tel Aviv, Kings of Israël square, Israël.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 November 1997
(-) Stephen Chako is shot dead in the course of a robbery by Louis Peoples at the age of 39 in Stockton, MFL Liquor and Tobacco, California, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 November 1998
(x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe confesses to having killed 8 people in Kampala, Uganda.
After giving his statement to the magistrate he jumped over the bench and tried to strangle magistrate Elizabeth Jane Alividza.
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 November 2004
(-) Murderer Robert Brice Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 November 2005
(-) Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Broad River Correctional Institute, South Carolina, United States.
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