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What happened in history on this day: December 4?
On December 4 in ...
- 1783 - General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City, New York.
- 1816 - James Monroe (Virginia), elected 5th US President, defeating Federalist Rufus King.
- 1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1836 - Whig party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1837 - Charlotte Mint receives its first deposit of gold, from Irwin & Wilms.
- 1843 - Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) is patented, in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1844 - James K Polk is elected 11th President of US, George M Dallas as Vice President.
- 1864 - Battle of Waynesborough, Brier Creek, Georgia.
- 1867 - The Grange is organized to protect farm interests.
- 1881 - The Los Angeles Times newspaper is first published.
- 1899 - 56th US Congress (1899-1901) convenes.
- 1899 - Webb Hayes, son of US President Rutherford Hayes, receives Medal of Honor.
- 1915 - Frank Jack Fletcher is first admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor.
- 1915 - The Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia, USA.
- 1915 - The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco, California, closes. 19 million visitors attended the event.
- 1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails to the peace talks in Versailles, France, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
- 1933 - US President Franklin Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration.
- 1942 - First US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey).
- 1942 - US President Franklin Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration.
- 1942 - US bombers strike Italian mainland for first time in World War II.
- 1943 - Second conference of Caïro: US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Turkish President Inönü.
- 1945 - US Senate approves US participation in United Nations.
- 1954 - The first Burger King opens, in Miami, Florida.
- 1959 - A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1965 - Two passenger planes collide above Danbury, Connecticut, USA; four die.
- 1965 - Gemini 7 is launched with two astronauts (Borman and Lovell).
- 1969 - Fred Haupton, president of the NAACP Youth Council, Deputy National Chairman and National Spokesman of The Black Panther Party, is shot in bed while unconscious, then twice to the head by police in his apartment.
- 1970 - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8 percent.
- 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan allows US Central Intelligence Agency to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (order number 12333).
- 1983 - US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon.
- 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser.
- 1986 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-7.
- 1987 - IBM ships first copies of OS/2 Standard Edition 1.0.
- 1990 - Due to Persian Gulf crisis, gasoline hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City, New York.
- 1991 - Muslim Shiites in Lebanon release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6.5 years).
- 1991 - Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing jet, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
- 1992 - U.S. military forces land in Somalia.
- 1996 - NASA's first Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral.
- 2007 - Michael A. Newdow, attorney and founder of the First Amendmist Church of True Science, initiates lawsuits challenging government-sanctioned references to God, and the statute that requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American coins and paper currency.
- 2008 - Iraq's Presidency Council approves a security pact with the United States, which requires U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi towns by mid-2009 and leave the country by the end of 2011.
- 2018 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 800 points following US President Donald Trump callingself a "Tariff Man" in regard to trade with the People's Republic of China.
- 2020 - The United States announces its withdrawal from the Somali civil war over the next month.
Births on December 4
- 1889 - Birth of Isabel Randolph in Illinois, USA; actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks).
- 1910 - Birth of Alex North in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf).
- 1915 - Birth of Alan Jackson in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA; newscaster (head anchor at CBS Radio News for over 25 years).
- 1915 - Birth of Eddie Heywood Junior in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; pianist and composer ("Canadian Sunset").
- 1924 - Birth of John Portman in South Carolina, USA; architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964).
- 1925 - Birth of Maurice Binder in New York City, New York, USA; photographer/film titler (James Bond films).
- 1928 - Birth of Dena Dietrich in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Dena - Karen, Ethel - The Ropers).
- 1934 - Birth of Victor French in Santa Barbara, California, USA; actor (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Carter Country).
- 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).
- 1937 - Birth of Max Baer Junior in Oakland, California, USA; actor/producer (Jethro - The Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1940 - Birth of Freddy Cannon [Picariello] in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; rocker (Palisades Park).
- 1942 - Birth of Bob Mosley in Paradise Valleym California, USA; rock bassist (Moby Grape).
- 1942 - Birth of Chris Hillman in San Diego, California, USA; singer (Byrds - "Turn Turn Turn", "Mr Tambourine Man").
- 1943 - Birth of Patti Chandler in California, USA; actress (Bikini Beach).
- 1944 - Birth of Dennis Wilson in Hawthorne, California, USA; drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys - "In My Room", "California Dreaming").
- 1948 - Birth of Southside Johnny Lyon in Neptune, New Jersey, USA; rocker (Asbury Jukes - "Don't Want Go Home").
- 1949 - Birth of Jeff Bridges in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, Sea Hunt, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses).
- 1949 - Birth of Mary Bea Porter-King in Everett, Washington, USA; LPGA golfer (1975 Golf Inns Classic).
- 1951 - Birth of Patricia Wettig in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actress (Nancy Weston - Thirty Something, Brothers and Sisters, Prison Break).
- 1952 - Birth of Ronald Michael Sega in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76).
- 1955 - Birth of Brian Prout in Troy, New York, USA; singer (Diamond Rio - "Meet in the Middle").
- 1957 - Birth of Lee Smith in Jamestown, Louisiana, USA; pitcher (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1958 - Birth of Bill Roy in Versailles, Illinois, USA; skeet (Olympics-1996).
- 1963 - Birth of Johanna Wright in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; WPVA volleyball player (Pismo Beach-4th).
- 1964 - Birth of Bill Peterson in Smithfield, North Carolina, USA; WLAF general manager (Amsterdam Admirals).
- 1964 - Birth of Marisa Tomei in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (My Cousin Vinny, A Different World, As the World Turns).
- 1967 - Birth of Martha O'Kelley; US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Mike Barrowman in Costa Mesa, California, USA; kayak/200 metre breast stroke (Olympics-gold-1992, 1996).
- 1976 - Birth of John Lee in Chicago, Illinois; dance skater (and Julia Bikbova).
- 1977 - Birth of Emily Ballard; Miss Washington Teen USA (1996).
Deaths on December 4
- 1807 - Death of Prince Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; activist/Masonic leader.
- 1952 - Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at age 67.
- 1967 - Death of Bert Lahr AKA Irving Lahrheim at age 72 of pneumonia; comedian/actor (Cowardly Lion - The Wizard of Oz, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Toast of the Town, Steve Allen Show, Hollywood Palace, Kraft TV Theatre).
- 1969 - Fred Haupton, president of the NAACP Youth Council, Deputy National Chairman and National Spokesman of The Black Panther Party, is shot in bed while unconscious, then twice to the head by police in his apartment.
- 1971 - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies.
- 1975 - Death of Hannah Arendt in New York (born in Hannover, Germany); director of the Conference on Jewish Relations in New York, chief editor of Schocken Books, executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, professor at the University of Chicago, and author (Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Violence, On Revolution).
- 1984 - John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at age 94.
- 1990 - Death of Edward Binns at age 74 of a heart attack; actor (It Takes a Thief, Brenner, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Police Story, The Virginian, juror #6 - Twelve Angry Men).
- 1993 - Frank Sturgis, Watergate burglar, dies at age 68.
- 1993 - Death of Frank Zappa at age 52 of prostate cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA; rock singer and composer ("Memories of El Monte", Mothers of Invention band, 50 albums, "Jazz From Hell" album (Grammy Award 1988)).
- 1993 - Margaret Landon, US author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at age 90.
- 1996 - Death of Wilf Carter AKA Montana Slim at age 91 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; father of country music in Canada, performed for more than six decades, "Swiss Moonlight Lullaby" (1932), "The Capture of Albert Johnson", inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1985).
- 2022 - Death of Bob McGrath at age 90 of complications of a stroke at home in New Jersey, USA; singer, actor (Bob Johnson - Sesame Street TV show (1969 - 2017)).
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