THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 4
November 4 in history
What happened on November 4: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1839 and 1956, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Newport Rising
4 Nov 1839 — Several thousand Chartists come down from the valleys and march on the Westgate Hotel. Soldiers inside fire on them, killing about 22. The leaders are sentenced to death, though their sentences are commuted to transportation. Remember them.
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— Hungarian Revolution
4 Nov 1956 — Soviet tanks return to Budapest to crush the revolution. About 2,500 Hungarians die in the fighting and the repression that follows. Before the border is sealed again, some 200,000 people leave: about one Hungarian in fifty.
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