On this day, November 4

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2025

Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Signs 1 GW Data Center Power Deal With Applied Digital
Center, Oliver County, North Dakota, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox
Starts 11/04/2025 10:28PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better361 days ago
Stated as done, per babcock.com^[1][6]: "(AKRON, Ohio - November 4, 2025) - Babcock & Wilcox ... announced today that it has ... [signed] an agreement for a limited notice to proceed"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 22:28 UTC and the SEC^[2][3][5] 8-K was accepted at 17:31 ET.
Babcock & Wilcox signed a limited notice to proceed on a project valued at over $1.5 billion to design and install four 300 MW gas-fired boiler and steam turbine plants for an Applied Digital AI Factory, its entry into AI data-centre power.
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2024

AI09/28/2026@AIDesk
Claude 3.5 Haiku Released
San Francisco, California, United StatesAnthropic
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Claude's^[2][3] release notes: "November 4th, 2024 Claude Haiku 3.5 is now available on the Claude API as a text-only model"; TechCrunch^[4] (10:24 AM PST, 4 November 2024) reports "Anthropic's^[1][6] newest AI model has arrived" and AWS posted Bedrock availability the same day. The 22 October post had said it "will be released later this month".
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku on its API, Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI, a text-only small model that it says beats Claude 3 Opus on many benchmarks, at $1 per million input tokens, four times Claude 3 Haiku's price.
Property10/10/2026@BuildDesk
McAuley Station — Atlanta affordable housing
375 Gartrell Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30312Pennrose / Mercy Care
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Confirmed announced milestone: Grand opening celebrated November 4, 2024. The date records the stated ceremony or dated announcement; it does not imply current apartment availability.^[1]
McAuley Station contains 170 mixed-income studio, one- and two-bedroom homes adjacent to Mercy Care, serving households at 30%–80% AMI. Grand opening celebrated November 4, 2024. Published rents: 1 bedroom $1,295, 2 bedrooms $1,550.

2021

Economy10/07/2026@EconDesk
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens to $80.9 Billion in September 2021
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Starts 11/04/2021 12:30PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins93% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 93%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.0 years ago
The release's explicit 8:30 a.m. Eastern embargo ended on November 4, 2021; September 2021 is the statistical month, not the publication date.^[1]
September 2021: the trade gap was $80.9 billion, up $8.1 billion from the revised prior month. Exports fell to $207.6 billion and imports rose to $288.5 billion. Released November 4, 2021.
Music10/17/2026@MusicDesk
Yuuri (優里) — "Betelgeuse (ベテルギウス)" (Billboard Japan Hot 100 Year-End #3 2022)
JapanYuuri (優里)
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Verified official Billboard Japan^[1] Hot 100 Year-End ranking.
Yuuri (優里) achieved the #3 music ranking of 2022 on Japan's Billboard Japan Hot 100 Year-End. Yuuri's Betelgeuse, a drama theme released digitally in November 2021, ranks third on Billboard Japan's 2022 Hot 100 year-end list; his Dry Flower is fifth.
Semiconductors10/31/2026@ChipDesk
Intel 12th-Gen Core (Alder Lake): First Hybrid P-Core and E-Core Desktop Chips
Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California, 95054, United StatesIntel
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Wikipedia^[1][2] gives November 4, 2021 as the launch date; Intel^[3] announced 12th Gen Core on October 27, 2021.
Alder Lake launched November 4, 2021 on Intel 7 with Golden Cove performance and Gracemont efficiency cores, Thread Director, DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 on LGA 1700; the Core i9-12900K had 8P+8E cores at $589.

2020

Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk
Apex Legends Launches on Steam, Arriving With Season 7
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United StatesRespawn Entertainment
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Steam's store page lists 4 Nov 2020; GamesRadar's^[1] report of the Switch delay (24 Oct 2020) says the Steam version launches on 4 November, and Wikipedia^[3] gives the same date, the same day as Season 7.
Respawn's free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends reached Steam on 4 November 2020, almost two years after its console and Origin launch, with cross-play and the start of Season 7. It is fifth on Steam's chart this week, with a peak of 205,986 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.
Food10/12/2026FoodDesk
Shangyi Ge Old Beijing Menlu Roast Duck (Zhangzhou 2nd Road Branch) — Qingdao restaurant guide
漳州二路115号网点
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Operating-by upper bound supported by a dated customer review on 2020-11-04. This is not a confirmed opening date; the branch is included only in Top restaurants.^[1]
Beijing cuisine at 漳州二路115号网点. The branch listing names Slow-Simmered Duck Soup / 慢熬鴨湯, Sliced Duck Meat / 片鴨肉, Whole Roast Duck / 整套烤鴨. See the sample menu for published prices and source notes.
Automotive10/26/2026@MotorDesk
Volkswagen Reveals the Mk8 Golf R With 320 PS, 4Motion and a Drift Mode, From EUR 48,000
Autostadt, Straße 3, Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandVolkswagen
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autohaus.de^[1] (SP-X) of 4 November 2020: "Die 320 PS starke R-Variante ... ist ab sofort zu Preisen ab 48.000 Euro bestellbar"; Gulf News^[5] dated 5 November 2020 reports Volkswagen "has officially revealed" the Mk8 Golf R.
Volkswagen revealed the eighth-generation Golf R on 4 November 2020: 320 PS and 420 Nm, 4Motion all-wheel drive, 0-100 km/h in 4.7 seconds and German orders from EUR 48,000.
≈$52.2K

2010

Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Ferrari World Opens as the World's Largest Indoor Theme Park in Abu Dhabi
Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesAldar Properties
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Bloomberg's^[3] November 4, 2010 report on the public opening, corroborated by Wikipedia^[2], dates Ferrari World's opening to that day.
Aldar Properties opened Ferrari World on Yas Island, a Ferrari-branded park enclosed by a 200,000-square-meter roof shaped like the brand's GT badge, making it the world's largest indoor theme park.
Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk
Qantas A380 Suffers Uncontained Engine Failure on QF32 Out of Singapore
Changi Airport, SingaporeAirbus
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ATSB final report AO-2010-089: "On 4 November 2010, while climbing through 7,000 ft after departing from Changi Airport, Singapore, the Airbus^[2] A380 registered VH-OQA, sustained an uncontained engine rotor failure".
On 4 November 2010 the No. 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 of Qantas A380 VH-OQA failed in flight after takeoff from Singapore. Debris damaged the left wing and systems, but the crew landed safely at Changi.