History for November 4 - On-This-Day.com
Will Rogers (William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers) 1879 - Cowboy, vaudeville performer, actor, Walter Cronkite 1916 - Broadcast journalist ("CBS Evening News"), Arthur William Matthew "Art" Carney 1918 - Actor ("The Honeymooners," "Harry and Tonto")
Laura Bush 1946 - U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush, Kathy Griffin 1960 - Comedian, Matthew McConaughey 1969 - Actor ("Failure to Launch," "Fool's Gold")
1952 - In the United States, the National Security Agency (NSA) was established.
1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.
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