4 november

On the way home Count Thun put them up in Linz and a concert was set for 4 November. Wolfgang to his father, 31 October: “as I have not a single symphony with me, I am writing a new one head over heels.” It became K. 425.

Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trader living with the Hidatsa, signed on as interpreter, bringing one of his two Shoshone wives. She was about sixteen and had been taken from her people by a Hidatsa raiding party some four years earlier. She would be the party’s link to the Shoshone and…

Brahms had worked on it on and off for some two decades, in Beethoven’s shadow. Otto Dessoff conducted the grand-ducal court orchestra in Karlsruhe. Hans von Bülow later called it “Beethoven’s Tenth”.

The launch was detained by an accident at the rapids but got up with local help, and the Slovak boats went up only hours before. Seward and Morris “must push on harder than ever”.

The accident to the launch has cost them time: “Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long ago; and by now my dear Mina would have been free.” Jonathan and Godalming take horses and follow the Szgany’s track, and he ends: “Good-bye, Mina! God bless and keep you.”

“This to my old and true friend John Seward, M.D., of Purfleet, London, in case I may not see him.” Van Helsing writes beside a fire he has kept alive all night with Mina’s help. Mina sleeps and sleeps, has lost her appetite and makes no entry in her diary, and he fears the place’s spell is on her.

Le Journal accused her of breaking up the marriage of Paul Langevin, Pierre’s former student. Their letters were printed, a mob gathered outside her house in Sceaux, and Langevin fought a duel in which no one fired. Svante Arrhenius asked her not to come to Stockholm. She replied that the prize…

He admitted he had lost faith in the field equations of 1913 and went back to the approach he and Grossmann had given up three years before, equations that keep their form in any coordinates.

Fought along the Alps and across the limestone plateau of the Carso. Italy attacked on the Isonzo eleven times in two and a half years for a few kilometres of ground before the twelfth battle, Caporetto, went the other way.

Montgomery’s Eighth Army broke Rommel’s line after twelve days of fighting through minefields. Churchill: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Oak Ridge’s air-cooled graphite reactor, the pilot for plutonium production, went critical before dawn. It was the first reactor built to run continuously, and sent the first grams of plutonium to Los Alamos.

At dawn, Soviet forces that had pulled out of Budapest days earlier came back in overwhelming strength. Nagy’s last radio appeal went out as they entered the city, and the West did nothing.

Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewellery. — Lennon, introducing “Twist and Shout” In front of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. ITV showed it six days later.

Security Council resolution 418 made the arms embargo of 1963 binding: the first mandatory sanctions the Council had ever imposed on a member state. South Africa built its own arms industry, Armscor, and in secret six nuclear weapons.

The first demonstration East Berlin’s authorities had approved, called by actors and artists. Estimates of the crowd run from half a million to a million. The writers Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym spoke; so did the former spy chief Markus Wolf, and was booed.

Samsung Galaxy beat SK Telecom T1 3–0 in Beijing’s 2008 Olympic stadium, before more than 40,000 fans. It was SK Telecom’s first defeat in a Worlds final, after three titles.

President Trump announced the withdrawal on 1 June 2017, but the Agreement’s rules delayed it until 4 November 2020, the day after the presidential election. President Biden rejoined on his first day in office, and the United States was a party again 30 days later.