November 4
1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform.
1864 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, resulting in the capture of 150 prisoners.
1938 – The deportation of several thousand Jews from Slovakia by the Hlinka Guard and police began.
1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as Genie, who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by ultranationalist Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv
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