Tuesday, November 4, 2025

A UPS Airlines plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least twelve people.

The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.

In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.

Barack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.

Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.

Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.

Robert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.