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Henry M. Robert

This day in history

4 November, 2010 - 00:00

1657: Ivan Vyhovsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine by the General Cossack Assembly in Korsun.

1922: The tomb of Tutankhamon is discovered by the British archaeologist Howard Carter, after two years of excavations. Almost all members of the team died soon after the discovery.

1946: UNESCO Constitution becomes legally effective; this date is formally regarded as that of commencement of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

1954: The Kuril Islands sustain a devastating earthquake, marking the beginning of the series of natural cataclysms of the 1950s.

1959: The museum-diorama “Storm of Sapun Mountain” opens in Sevastopol.

1969: Ryazan’s organization of the Soviet Writers’ Union expels Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

1990: Holodomor Remembrance Day is marked all over Ukraine for the first time.

2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected president of the United States.

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