Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 4
This is a list of selected December 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ram Mohan Roy
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1676 – Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King Christian V in an area north of Lund, Sweden. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1872 – The British ship Dei Gratia found the unmanned and under full sail American brigantine Mary Celeste. To this day, it is often described as the archetypal ghost ship, and the fate of its crew and passengers has been the subject of much speculation. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1956 – Singers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, collectively called the Million Dollar Quartet", recorded an impromptu jam session in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. | refimprove section |
| 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I. | refimprove |
| 1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon, was released after seven years in captivity. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
- 1954 – The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its signature item the Whopper, was founded in Miami, Florida.
- 1992 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
December 4: Navy Day in India
- 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (pictured) made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
- 1829 – Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves, was prohibited in part of British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy.
- 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.
- 2006 – Six black youths in Jena, Louisiana, US, assaulted a white teenager; the subsequent court case would become a cause célèbre.