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Events from History on December 04

1110 : Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1197 : Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 : Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French king Louis IX
1489 : Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1534 : Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 : Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 : America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
1644 : 1st European peace congress opens in Mnster
1655 : Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
1665 : Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris
1674 : Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1680 : Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1682 : 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1688 : General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III
1691 : Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
1691 : Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands
1745 : Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 : Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
1791 : Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1798 : Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
1812 : Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
1816 : James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1829 : Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death
1829 : on her husband's funeral pyre
1832 : French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1833 : American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1836 : Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
1843 : Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
1843 : Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig
1844 : James K Polk elected 11th president of US
1851 : Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
1863 : Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces
1864 : Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
1864 : Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1867 : Grange organized to protect farm interests
1875 : William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1889 : Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1890 : Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1899 : 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
1899 : Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
1901 : Anne Russell's "Girl & the judge," premieres in NYC
1905 : British government of Balfour resigns
1906 : Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
1908 : Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
1914 : Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1914 : Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales
1915 : F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
1915 : Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
1915 : Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1918 : Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st
1918 : chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1920 : 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1922 : Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
1923 : Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres
1923 : WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
1927 : Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1927 : Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1927 : Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
1928 : Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in NYC
1930 : French govt of Tardieu falls
1930 : Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 : "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
1933 : FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933 : Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in NYC
1935 : 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1941 : Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
1942 : 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 : FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 : US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
1942 : Works Progress Administration liquidated
1943 : -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Ca‹ro: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres In”n
1943 : Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943 : Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
1944 : Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 : 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
1945 : Senate approves US participation in UN
1947 : USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
1948 : "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
1948 : SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1951 : Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper," premieres in NYC
1951 : Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
1952 : Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1952 : Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
1954 : "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1954 : "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances
1955 : Mgr Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 : 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
1957 : 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
1957 : 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
1958 : Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
1958 : Finnish govt of Fagerholm, resigns
1961 : Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 : Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 : Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1961 : Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
1961 : WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 : Aldo Moro forms Italian govt
1963 : Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
1964 : Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1964 : Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
1964 : Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
1965 : "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs
1965 : 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
1965 : 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
1965 : Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
1965 : SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract
1965 : signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1966 : KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 : Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1973 : Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1974 : Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
1974 : Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
1975 : 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
1976 : Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
1977 : Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
1977 : Neil Simon's "Chapter Two," premieres in NYC
1978 : Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
1978 : Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 : Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1978 : War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1979 : Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
1979 : Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
1980 : 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 : Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
1981 : "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
1981 : According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not
1981 : Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1981 : Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333)
1981 : recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
1982 : 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
1982 : China adopts its constitution
1982 : Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
1983 : "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
1983 : "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
1983 : David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby," premieres in NYC
1983 : NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
1983 : US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1984 : Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1985 : "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
1985 : French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1985 : Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
1986 : NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
1986 : Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," premieres in NYC
1987 : Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1988 : Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1988 : Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1988 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 : Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
1990 : Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1991 : Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 : Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)
1991 : Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1991 : Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
1993 : Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
1993 : Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
1994 : "Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
1994 : "Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
1995 : Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
1996 : 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1996 : 7th Billboard Music Awards
1996 : NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1997 : "Diary of Anne Frank," opens at Music Box Theater NYC
9771 : Karel, the Great, becomes king of all France

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