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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Jeremiah Horrocks observing the transit of Venus -
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The Mary Celeste
Ineligible
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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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published. | refimprove |
| 1937 – The first issue of The Dandy, the world's longest-running children's comic book, was published. | 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
- 771 – Austrasian King Carloman I died, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
- 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
- 1872 – The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances which to this day remain unknown.
- 1909 – The first Grey Cup game, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, was held.
- 1979 – Bruce George Peter Lee set fire to a family home in Hull, England; after his arrest he revealed that he had started nine other fatal fires in the area.
- 1980 – The English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded.
- 1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.
- 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.
- 2006 – Six black youths in Jena, Louisiana, US, assaulted a white teenager; the subsequent court case would become a cause célèbre.
Notes
- National Hockey League appears on November 26, so Montreal Canadiens should not appear in the same year
December 4: Navy Day in India
- 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.
- 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors.
- 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1954 – The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its signature item the Whopper (pictured), was founded in Miami, Florida, US.
- 1971 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.