On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death.

Read Kathleen J. Burns, A Chronicle of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts [DOC], Lawyers Journal (January 1999).

On November 4, 1996, Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amir tried and given a life sentence for the murder.

Learn more about the trial of Yigal Amir from the New York Times.