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Today in History: November 4, King Tutankhamen’s face unveiled

Today is Monday, Nov. 4, the 309th day of 2024. There are 57 days left in the year.
On Nov. 4,  2007, King Tutankhamen’s face was unveiled for the first time to the public more than 3,000 years after the pharaoh was buried in his Egyptian tomb.
In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt.
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In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for some of the hostages, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.
In 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan won election to the White House for the first time as he trounced President Jimmy Carter.
In 1991, Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, California; attending were President George H.W. Bush and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon — the first-ever gathering of five past and present U.S. chief executives.
In 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a peace rally.
In 2008, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the first Black president of the United States, defeating the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

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