This Day in Ancient History
Ante diem iv kalendas novembres

ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 4)-- games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla's defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.

1729 -- birth of James Boswell (biographer of Johnson)
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