CNN Interactive - Almanac - November 4, 1999

The bill is a catalogue of missed opportunities, misguided priorities, and mindless cuts in everything from education to national defense to the environment

President Clinton, who vetoed Congress' final spending bill.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations plans to hold a hearing on the situation in Chechnya.
President Clinton is scheduled to leave on a two-day trip to Newark, New Jersey, Hermitage, Arkansas, Chicago and Hartford, Connecticut, to promote economic development in poor areas.
Sentencing is scheduled in Vista, California for Brandon Wilson, convicted of murdering 9-year-old Matthew Cecchi in an Oceanside restroom. A jury recommended the death penalty.
Oklahoma City National Memorial officials launch a fund-raising campaign honoring the 168 people killed in the 1995 bombing of the Murrow Federal Building
Thousands of Indian nationalists are expected to reach New Delhi at the end of a 1,000-mile march to protest alleged forced conversions to Christianity.

On Friday, November 5, Pope John Paul II is scheduled to begin a visit to India.
On Saturday, November 6, Australia holds a national referendum on whether to replace the British monarch as head of state with an Australian president.
On Sunday, November 7, the New York City Marathon is to be held.
On Monday, November 8, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are scheduled to meet to discuss the Mideast peace accord.
On Tuesday, November 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments involving the use of mandatory student fees at public schools to subsidize controversial campus groups.

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In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
In 1922, Archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to boy-pharaoh King Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt.
In 1924, Wyoming elected Nellie T. Ross America's first woman governor so she could serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.
In 1956, Soviet forces entered Hungary to suppress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956.
In 1979, About 500 Iranians seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by militant Israeli at a peace rally.