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Today in History ~ December 4
Events1110 - Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1197 - Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1534 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
1665 - Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris
1674 - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1680 - Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1688 - General strategist John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough) joins with William III
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 - Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunces Tavern, NYC
1791 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1812 - Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1829 - Britain abolishes "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1843 - Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
1843 - Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig
1844 - James K Polk elected 11th president of US
1851 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
1864 - Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
1864 - Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1867 - Grange organized to protect farm interests
1872 - The Mystery of the Mary Celeste ship found, abandoned, with its sails slightly damaged, several feet of water in the hold, and the lifeboat and navigational instruments missing. However, the ship is in good order, the cargo intact, and reserves of food and water remain on board. The captain, his family, and the crew of the vessel are never found, and the reasons for the abandonment of the Mary Celeste have never been fully determined.
1875 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1915 - Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Ga
1918 - President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1923 - Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres
1927 - Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1930 - Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 - "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
1933 - Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in NYC
1935 - 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1941 - Nazi ordinances place Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
1942 - US bombers strike Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered liquidation of the Works Progress Administration, created during the Depression to provide work for the unemployed.
1945 - Senate approves US participation in UN [H]
1948 - SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1951 - Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper," premieres in NYC
1951 - Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), killing 500
1952 - Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1971 - India joins East Pakistan in its war for independence from West Pakistan. East Pakistan would become the republic of Bangladesh...at the top of the Bay of Bengal. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were all previously part of the British colony of India.
1974 - Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
1977 - Neil Simon's "Chapter Two," premieres in NYC
1978 - Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
1978 - Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1981 - "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
1981 - President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (Executive Order on Intelligence No 12333)
1983 - US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1984 - Hijackers commandeer a Kuwaiti airliner
1986 - Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," premieres in NYC
1990 - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
1990 - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1991 - Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 - Lincoln Savings and Loan Association chairman Charles Keating is convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud. Keating was one of the most controversial figures in the savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s. Keating's sales personnel persuaded depositors to put their money into high-risk junk bonds. Keating later said he was broke...although he flew from the West Coast to Washington and then to London to do so.
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceases operations
1991 - American Terry Anderson was freed by his Musliim Shites pro-Iranian captors after 6 years. He was the last U.S. hostage held in the Middle East.
1992 - President Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia.
1995 - Officials of the United Auto Workers union called an end to a largely unsuccessful 17-month-long strike against Caterpiller in Peoria, Ill.
1996 - Jonathan Schmitz was sentenced in the slaying of Scott Amedure, who had confessed to having a crush on Schmitz during the taping of "The Jenny Jones Show." The segment never aired.
1997 - Top health officials in Europe voted to ban most forms of advertising of tobacco beginning in four to five years.
1998 -The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off, carrying into orbit a U.S. component of the International Space Station.
Birthdays Today
1443 - Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
1584 - John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1822 - Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1835 - Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhon, Way of All Flesh)
1861 - Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard) (singer, actress, famous burlesque beauty: The Great Mogul [1881])
1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)
1892 - Francisco Franco [y Bahamonde], Spanish Generalissimo/dictator (1936-75)
1903 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian
1912 - Pappy (Gregory) Boyington (aviator)
1915 - Eddie Heywood, Jr. (pianist, composer: Canadian Sunset)
1918 - John Bell Williams (politician)
1922 - Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
1928 - Dena Dietrich (actress)
1930 - Harvey Kuenn (baseball: Detroit Tigers: shortstop: American League Rookie of the Year [1953])
1931 - Alex Delvecchio (hockey: Detroit Red Wings: Most Gentlemanly Player [1966, 1969])
1933 - Horst Buchholz (actor)
1934 - Wink Martindale (TV host: Tic Tac Dough, Can You Top This?)
1937 - Max Baer, Jr. (actor, producer: The Beverly Hillbillies, Ode to Billy Joe)
1940 - Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon (Frederick Anthony Picariello) (see "Boom Boom" Day [above])
1941 - Marty Riessen (tennis champion: shares record for most US Open mixed doubles, won by an individual male [4])
1942 - Chris Hillman (singer: group: The Byrds)
1943 - Gary Sabourin (hockey)
1944 - Dennis Wilson (musician: drums, keyboard; singer: group: The Beach Boys )
1946 - Skip Vanderbundt (football)
1948 - Randy Vataha (football)
1949 - Jeff Bridges (actor: The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, The Last Picture Show, The Company She Keeps, American Heart, Sea Hunt; songwriter)
1952 - Gary Rossington (guitarist: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Famous deaths
1371 - Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1514 - Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1642 - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Luzon, dies at about 57
1732 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1967 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 - Fred Hampton Chairmen of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, murdered by the Chicago Police. [H]
1993 - Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1995 - Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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