Here's a quick look at our top stories for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025:
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TOP HEADLINES:
Arson suspected in two Butte business fires
Gallatin County sees ballot rejection increase due to new birth year requirement
Yellowstone television show spin-off films in downtown Bozeman
Man stabbed after bear spray attack in Butte
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Major Historical Events on November 4
2008 – Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African-American president
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, an Israeli extremist opposed to the Oslo Peace Accords
1980 – Ronald Reagan elected 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter
1979 – Iran Hostage Crisis begins when Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days
1956 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956 peaks
1952 – U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) officially formed, replacing the Armed Forces Security Agency
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman governor of a U.S. state (Wyoming)
1918 – British poet Wilfred Owen killed in action on the Western Front, just one week before the World War I armistice
1879 – James Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, receives a patent for the mechanical cash register
1791 – Battle of the Wabash: Native American confederation defeats U.S. forces in western Ohio
Notable Births on November 4
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
1957 – Tony Abbott, Australian politician and former Prime Minister
1951 – Traian Băsescu, Romanian politician and former President
1946 – Laura Bush, First Lady and wife of George W. Bush
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer
1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (fiber optics)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, legendary American journalist known as "the most trusted man in America"
Notable Deaths on November 4
2015 – René Girard, French historian, critic, and philosopher
2008 – Michael Crichton, American author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain"
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (assassinated)
1955 – Cy Young, American baseball pitcher with the most wins in MLB history (511)
1924 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer and pianist
1918 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian and first President of Cornell University
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer and conductor
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