Nightride is the second studio album by American singer Tinashe. It was released on November 4, 2016, by RCA Records. Its first single, "Company" was released on September 16, 2016. The album also includes the promotional singles "Ride of Your Life" and "Party Favors". Unlike the single version of "Party Favors", the album version does not feature rapper Young Thug. Tinashe recorded the project while recording her third studio album Joyride. The album peaked at number 89 on the US Billboard 200.
World renowed opera singer, Shirley Verrett, makes her debut in New York City, 1958
On November 4, 2008, Illinois Senator Barack Obama defeated Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. On the night of his historic victory, Senator Obama addressed an audience of 250,000 at Grant Park in Chicago. The text of his speech appears below.
Hello Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
Its the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
Its the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
Its the answer that led those whove been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
Its been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.
A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain.
Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And hes fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.
Odumegwu Ojukwu , in full Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (born November 4, 1933, Zungeru, Nigeria—died November 26, 2011, London, England), Nigerian military leader and politician, who was head of the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.
On this day in:
1841 John Bartleson and John Bidwell arrived in California with the first wagon train. They left from Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841 with 69 adults and several children.
1873 Anthony Iske of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was issued U.S. patent No. 144,206 for a meat slicing machine. It worked much like a mandoline, with a frame to hold the meat while sliding it against the blade.
1879 James and John Ritty invented the first cash register. They came up with the idea to prevent bartenders from stealing at the Pony House Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio.
1879 African-American inventor, Thomas Elkins received U.S. patent No. 221,222 for a refrigerating machine, which could be used to cool food (or even human corpses according to the patent application). He also received patents for a combined dining/ironing table and a commode.
1879 Thomas Edison applied for a patent for electric lamps giving light by incandescence. (Patent No. 223,898, granted Jan 27, 1880).
1916 Ruth Handler was born (died April 27, 2002). Creator of the Barbie Doll (1959) and co-founder of the Mattel company in 1942.
1922 The entrance to the tomb of King Tutankhamen was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
1923 Alfred Heineken was born. Grandson of Gerard Adriaan Heineken, the founder of Heineken Brewery. He was president of the company from 1964 to 1989.
1940 Eggs and cake are rationed in the Netherlands.
1959 Alberta, Canada bans trading stamps and similar sales promotional items.
1993 Elton John was awarded $518,700 from the Sunday Mirror for false allegations that he was hooked on a bizarre diet in which he spat out food without swallowing it.
2005 The animated movie 'Chicken Little' premiered.
Bath was born on November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York to Rupert Bath, a Trinidadian immigrant and the first black motorman in the New York City subway system, and Gladys Rupert, a domestic worker.
Charles Dean Dixon, conductor, was born January 10, 1915 in New York, New York to West Indian parents Henry Charles Dixon and McClara Rolston Dixon. Dixon’s parents exposed him to classical music at an early age and his mother taught him to play the violin, along with a number of other instruments. By the age of nine he was considered a musical prodigy and performed on local radio stations in New York. Dixon enrolled at Juilliard School of Music in 1932 as a violin major, but soon switched to the music pedagogy program and graduated in 1936. He then enrolled in Columbia University and earned a Master’s Degree in Music Pedagogy there in 1939.
Dixon was married three times: he married pianist Vivian Rivkin in 1948 and the couple had a daughter, Diane (1948-2000). He married Finnish Baroness and playwright Mary Mandelin in 1954 and they had daughter Nina in 1954. He married Australian Ritha Blume in 1973.
While at Julliard Dixon discovered conducting and upon graduating he formed the “Dean Dixon Symphony Orchestra,” the first racially integrated group of its type in New York City. His career as an accomplished conductor began with guest-conducting concerts for the New York City Orchestra in 1940 and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1941. Later that year Dixon became the first African American to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He received the 1945-47 Julius Rosenwald Fellowship and the Alice M. Ditson Award from Columbia University in 1948.
Despite these prestigious guest conducting appearances and awards, there were few opportunities for African Americans in the field of conducting during the 1940s. Dixon was not offered any permanent conducting positions. He moved to Europe in 1949 to guest conduct with the French National Radio Orchestra and remained abroad for the next two decades. He was the conductor of the Goteburg Symphony in Sweden from 1953 to 1960 and the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Germany from 1961 to 1964. He traveled to Sydney, Australia to conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in