Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 4

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November 4: Flag Day in Panama, Unity Day in Russia.

1852 – Count Cavour (pictured) became prime minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy.

1869 – Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals, was first published.

1890 – London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.

1979 – Hundreds of Iranian students supporting Iran's post-revolutionary regime seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis.

1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was mortally wounded by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.

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