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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 4
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Jean H L Bossard; actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of John Portman in South Carolina, USA; architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Victor French in Santa Barbara, California, USA; actor (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Carter Country).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Wink [Winston Conrad] Martindale in Jackson, Tennessee, USA; radio/TV game show host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This, Music of Your Life).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Dennis Wilson in Hawthorne, California, USA; drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys - "In My Room", "California Dreaming").
- 80th: 1944 - Germans destroy Rhine dikes, flooding Betuwe.
- 70th: 1954 - The first Burger King opens, in Miami, Florida.
- 70th: 1954 - Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies.
- 60th: 1964 - American Major League Baseball approves a free-agent draft.
- 60th: 1964 - The Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Bill Peterson in Smithfield, North Carolina, USA; WLAF general manager (Amsterdam Admirals).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Chelsea Noble; actress (Kirk, Growing Pains).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Marisa Tomei in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (My Cousin Vinny, A Different World, As the World Turns).
- 60th: 1964 - Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes.
- 60th: 1964 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, versus Pakistan Melbourne Cricket Ground, 11, 0-49, 0-31.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Anke Huber in Bruchsal, Germany; tennis star (1996 finalist Australian).
- 50th: 1974 - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims.
- 50th: 1974 - Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison.
- 50th: 1974 - Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at age 36.
- 40th: 1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill four passengers.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Lindsay Felton in Seattle, Washington, USA; actress (Caitlin's Way, Thunder Alley).
- 40th: 1984 - John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at age 94.
- 30th: 1994 - The Game Show Network launches in the US with mostly reruns of past TV game shows.
- 30th: 1994 - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1).
- 30th: 1994 - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at age 99.
- 30th: 1994 - Marta Figueras-Dottie and Brad Bryant win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic.
- 15th: 2009 - At least four attackers open fire and throw grenades on worshippers at a mosque near the Pakistani army's headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing at least 35 people. After an hour-long gun battle with security forces, two or three attackers blow themselves up.
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