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  • 1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
  • 1563 Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years
  • Famous and historically inaccurate painting of the English Pilgrims and Native American Wampanoag gathering and sharing a meal

    The First Thanksgiving

    1619 Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas
  • First issue of The Observer Sunday newspaper in 1791

    First Issue of The Observer

    1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published and becomes the world's oldest Sunday newspaper
  • 1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
  • 1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Versailles Peace Conference in France
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  • 1933 Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC and becomes the longest-running play of its time
  • 1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem, NYC
  • 1943 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announces that any baseball club may sign Negro players

Research published in "Nature" and "Science" claims Native Americans had just one migration from Siberia to the New World, at most 23,000 years ago

December 4, 2018

  • Thomas Carlyle

    1795 - 1881

  • Crazy Horse

    1840 - 1877

  • Chester Greenwood

    1858 - 1937

  • Edith Cavell

    1865 - 1915

  • Francisco Franco

    1892 - 1975

  • Pappy Boyington

    1912 - 1988
More Birthdays on December 4

  • Jeff Bridges

    76 Years Old

  • Marisa Tomei

    61 Years Old

  • Tyra Banks

    52 Years Old

  • Jay-Z

    56 Years Old

  • Kim Seok-jin

    33 Years Old

  • Diogo Jota

    1996 - 2025

  • Anke Huber

    51 Years Old

NY's Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" the right side up, after stockbroker Genevieve Habert notices it is displayed upside down, the first of 116,000 people in 47 days to notice

December 4, 1961

  • 1878 Novelist Bram Stoker (31) weds Florence Balcombe (20) in Dublin, Ireland
  • 1941 Entertainer Milton Berle (33) marries actress Joyce Matthews (21) for the first time (divorced 1947, remarried 1949)
  • 1952 Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo marries first wife Élodie Constantin (divorced 1968)
  • 2006 American tennis player Chris Evert (51) divorces American alpine skier Andy Mill (52) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, citing irreconcilable differences
  • 2015 Actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas divorce after 19 years of marriage
More December 4 Weddings

  • Thomas Hobbes

    1588 - 1679

  • Robert Jenkinson

    1770 - 1828

  • Bert Lahr

    1895 - 1967

  • Hannah Arendt

    1906 - 1975

  • Benjamin Britten

    1913 - 1976

  • Frank Zappa

    1940 - 1993
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  • Dioscorus, the enraged father, raises his sword to decapitate his daughter Barbara

    The Beheading of Saint Barbara

    From artillerymen to architects and from bricklayers to butchers, Barbara is the patron saint. If legend is to be believed her sad life had a brutal ending. December 4, 306 AD
  • Jean-Bédel Bokassa is crowned as 'Emperor of Central Africa' atop a golden throne in 1976

    Dictator Bokassa I

    Jean-Bédel Bokassa is crowned as 'Emperor of Central Africa' atop a golden throne in 1976 December 4, 1977
  • USS Arizona ablaze and sinking after the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Weekly Quiz for December 2 - 8

    What did FDR call Pearl Harbor in a speech to Congress a day after the attack? What was patented in the US in 1909 sparking the birth of the plastics industry?
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  • The original Broadway cast of South Pacific – the first million-selling LP

    Goodbye Scratchy 78s, Hello Vinyl

    December 2, 1906
  • The only known photograph of Flannelfoot – a smiling Harry Vickers in military uniform

    Flannelfoot, The False Teeth Filcher

    December 3, 1937
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was among the most prolific, versatile, and popular composers of all time.

    Mozart, the Incomparable Musical Genius

    December 5, 1791
  • A painting by the Italian artist Fra Angelico about 1437, meant to show St Nicholas starting to rescue sailors and other people from death

    St Nicholas – The Man Behind Santa Claus

    December 6, 343 AD
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