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November 4
1842Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill. 1880James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register. 1922Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. 1924Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office. 1956Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy. 1979The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage. 1995Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli. 
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