What happened on 4 November?

15 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1899 Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Founding text of psychoanalysis: the unconscious, dream-work, repression.
2. 2008 Obama elected US President First African-American President of the United States.
3. 1980 Reagan elected US President Reagan defeats Carter on hardline anti-Soviet platform.
4. 1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate shot dead at a Tel Aviv peace rally by a right-wing Israeli extremist.
5. 1854 Florence Nightingale at Scutari Nightingale arrives to reform the squalid military hospital at Scutari, founding modern nursing.
6. 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb Howard Carter discovers the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings; the burial chamber is unsealed weeks later, revealing the greatest archaeological find of the
7. 1979 Iran hostage crisis 444-day standoff after Iranian students seize US embassy in Tehran; cripples Carter, helps elect Reagan.
8. 1979 Students storm the US embassy in Tehran Enraged that America has admitted the dying Shah for cancer treatment, student revolutionaries scale the embassy walls and take 66 Americans hostage. Khomeini blesses the seizure;
9. 1852 Cavour's premiership of Piedmont and Italy Engineered Italian unification by diplomacy and the French alliance, and became the new kingdom's first prime minister three months before dying.
10. 1924 Stanley Baldwin's second premiership The General Strike, the return to the gold standard and votes for women at twenty-one.
11. 1576 The Spanish Fury at Antwerp Spain's unpaid army mutinies and sacks the richest city in northern Europe, killing thousands of its citizens in three days. The atrocity accomplishes what Orange's diplomacy could
12. 1839 Newport Rising Chartists march on Newport demanding the vote; troops open fire, the last large-scale armed rising in Britain.
13. 1862 Gatling gun Richard Gatling patents a hand-cranked multi-barrel rapid-fire weapon; first practical machine gun; adopted in the closing months of the American Civil War.
14. 1650 Born: William III & Mary II Joint sovereigns brought in by the Glorious Revolution.
15. 1964 Khomeini exiled from Iran After attacking a law giving American soldiers immunity from Iranian courts — Iran, he says, has been sold for dollars — Khomeini is put on a plane to Turkey. From Najaf and later