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Events on the 4th of December in history

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04 Dec 0771 Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
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04 Dec 1110 Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
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04 Dec 1110 The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon.
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04 Dec 1197 Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
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04 Dec 1259 Treaty of Paris: English King Henry III and French King Louis IX
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04 Dec 1259 Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
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04 Dec 1489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
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04 Dec 1534 Turkish Sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
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04 Dec 1563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
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04 Dec 1563 The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.)
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04 Dec 1619 Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
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04 Dec 1655 Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
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04 Dec 1674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
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04 Dec 1674 Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek. (The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.)
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04 Dec 1676 Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
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04 Dec 1680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
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04 Dec 1682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
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04 Dec 1688 General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III
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04 Dec 1691 Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
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04 Dec 1691 Spanish King Carlos II names Maximilian II Viceroy of S Netherlands
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04 Dec 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
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04 Dec 1745 Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
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04 Dec 1783 At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
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04 Dec 1786 Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).
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04 Dec 1791 The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
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04 Dec 1798 Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
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04 Dec 1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
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04 Dec 1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
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04 Dec 1829 In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide.
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04 Dec 1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
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04 Dec 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia
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04 Dec 1836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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04 Dec 1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Massachusetts
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04 Dec 1844 James K Polk elected 11th President of US
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04 Dec 1863 Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces
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04 Dec 1864 Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) Georgia
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04 Dec 1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
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04 Dec 1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
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04 Dec 1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
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04 Dec 1867 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
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04 Dec 1872 The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.
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04 Dec 1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
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04 Dec 1875 Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison. He will later be recaptured in Spain.
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04 Dec 1881 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
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04 Dec 1890 Willem III, Dutch King, buried
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04 Dec 1893 First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
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04 Dec 1899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
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04 Dec 1899 Webb Hayes Son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
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04 Dec 1905 British government of Balfour resigns
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04 Dec 1906 Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
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04 Dec 1909 In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
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04 Dec 1909 The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
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04 Dec 1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
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04 Dec 1915 F F Fletcher is 1st Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
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04 Dec 1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia
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04 Dec 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
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04 Dec 1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
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04 Dec 1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
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04 Dec 1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
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04 Dec 1920 8th CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
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04 Dec 1921 The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
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04 Dec 1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
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04 Dec 1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
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04 Dec 1926 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats University of Toronto, 10-7
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04 Dec 1927 Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
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04 Dec 1927 Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
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04 Dec 1930 French government of Tardieu falls
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04 Dec 1930 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
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04 Dec 1931 "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
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04 Dec 1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
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04 Dec 1937 The first issue of the children's comic The Dandy is published.
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04 Dec 1939 World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
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04 Dec 1941 Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
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04 Dec 1942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
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04 Dec 1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
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04 Dec 1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WWII
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04 Dec 1942 Works Progress Administration liquidated
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04 Dec 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
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04 Dec 1943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
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04 Dec 1943 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
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04 Dec 1943 World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
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04 Dec 1943 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
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04 Dec 1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
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04 Dec 1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
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04 Dec 1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
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04 Dec 1945 By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
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04 Dec 1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
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04 Dec 1948 "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
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04 Dec 1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
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04 Dec 1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
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04 Dec 1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
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04 Dec 1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
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04 Dec 1952 Walter P Reuther chosen Chairman of CIO
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04 Dec 1954 "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
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04 Dec 1954 "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 64 performances
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04 Dec 1954 The first Burger King is opened in Miami.
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04 Dec 1955 Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
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04 Dec 1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
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04 Dec 1956 The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
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04 Dec 1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
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04 Dec 1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns
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04 Dec 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Dec 1961 Smallest New York Knick, 49th St. Madison Square Garden crowd - 1,300 (snowstorm)
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04 Dec 1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
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04 Dec 1961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Dec 1963 Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
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04 Dec 1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
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04 Dec 1964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
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04 Dec 1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
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04 Dec 1965 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
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04 Dec 1965 Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
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04 Dec 1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Dec 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
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04 Dec 1967 Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
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04 Dec 1969 Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
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04 Dec 1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
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04 Dec 1971 The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
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04 Dec 1971 The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
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04 Dec 1971 The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
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04 Dec 1971 "The Troubles": The Ulster Volunteer Force bombs a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing 15 civilians and wounding 17. It was the city's highest death toll from a single incident during the conflict.
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04 Dec 1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
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04 Dec 1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
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04 Dec 1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
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04 Dec 1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
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04 Dec 1975 Suriname joins the United Nations.
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04 Dec 1977 Hollis Stacy / Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
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04 Dec 1977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
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04 Dec 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
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04 Dec 1977 Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
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04 Dec 1978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
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04 Dec 1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
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04 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
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04 Dec 1978 Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. (She will serve until January 8, 1988.)
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04 Dec 1979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
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04 Dec 1979 The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
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04 Dec 1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
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04 Dec 1980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
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04 Dec 1980 English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25.
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04 Dec 1981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
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04 Dec 1981 According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
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04 Dec 1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
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04 Dec 1981 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333)
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04 Dec 1981 South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
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04 Dec 1982 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
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04 Dec 1982 China adopts its constitution
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04 Dec 1982 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
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04 Dec 1982 The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
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04 Dec 1983 "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
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04 Dec 1983 "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
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04 Dec 1983 New Jersey Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
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04 Dec 1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
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04 Dec 1984 Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
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04 Dec 1984 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
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04 Dec 1984 Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
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04 Dec 1985 "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
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04 Dec 1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
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04 Dec 1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
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04 Dec 1986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
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04 Dec 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
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04 Dec 1988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
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04 Dec 1988 Amy Benz / John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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04 Dec 1988 Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
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04 Dec 1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City
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04 Dec 1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
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04 Dec 1991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
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04 Dec 1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
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04 Dec 1991 Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
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04 Dec 1991 Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
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04 Dec 1991 Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport, ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
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04 Dec 1992 Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
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04 Dec 1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 seconds)
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04 Dec 1993 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
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04 Dec 1993 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
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04 Dec 1994 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
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04 Dec 1994 Marta Figueras-Dottie / Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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04 Dec 1996 7th Billboard Music Awards
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04 Dec 1996 Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
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04 Dec 1997 "Diary of Anne Frank, " opens at Music Box Theater, New York City
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04 Dec 1997 NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach
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04 Dec 1998 The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
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04 Dec 2005 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
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04 Dec 2006 Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
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04 Dec 2013 Xavier Bettel becomes Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister.
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