Today in History.....November 4

On this day in …

* 1880, the first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio

* 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen's (Tut) tomb was discovered in Egypt

* 1942, during World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

* 1956, Soviet troops moved in to crush the Hungarian Revolution

* 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis began as practitioners of that "religion of peace" stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants. For some of the hostages, it was the start of 444 days of captivity

* 1980, Ronald Reagan won the White House as he defeated President Carter by a strong margin

* 1991, Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.

* 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally

* 2000, Yugoslavia's parliament approved the country's first communist-free government in more than half a century. ALSO:
President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have criminalized the leaking of government secrets