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A transit of Venus
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Jeremiah Horrocks observing the transit of Venus
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Burger King Whopper
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Dianne Feinstein
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Mary Celeste, 1861
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Ram Mohan Roy
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| John of Damascus |d|749| | article says this date is only "traditional", hence not reliably sourced as being otd |
| 771 – Austrasian King [[Carloman I|Template:Nowrap]] died, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
| 1676 – Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King [[Christian V of Denmark|Template:Nowrap]] in an area north of Lund, Sweden. | needs more footnotes |
| 1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published. | refimprove |
| 1937 – The first issue of The Dandy, the world's longest-running children's comic book, was published. | refimprove |
| 1949 – Duncan Stewart, the British governor of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed in Sibu during his first visit to the colony. | uncertainty over date, see [1] |
| 1954 – The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its signature item the Whopper, was founded in Miami, Florida, U.S. | Date not in article, good faith research on internet can't turn up source for it. |
| 1956 – Singers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, collectively called the "Million Dollar Quartet", recorded an impromptu jam session in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. | refimprove |
| 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – Bruce George Peter Lee set fire to a family home in Hull, England; after his arrest he revealed that he had started nine other fatal fires in the area. | refimprove |
| 1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon, was released after seven years in captivity. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations. | Template:Tl |
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- 1370 – Hundred Years' War: In two separate engagements in the Battle of Pontvallain, French forces wiped out an English army which had split up because of a dispute between the commanders.
- 1829 – Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of a widow's self-immolation on her husband's pyre, was prohibited by Lord William Bentinck in parts of British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy (pictured).
- 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors.
- 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club in the world, were founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1909 – The first Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, was held in Toronto.
- 1915 – World War I: Senior British and French figures, including prime ministers H. H. Asquith and Aristide Briand, met at Calais to discuss the future of the Salonika Front.
- 1928 – Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.
- 1969 – Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and Mark Clark were killed in a raid by Chicago police officers in what many scholars consider an illegal assassination.* *1971 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster-loyalist paramilitary group, detonated a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.* 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first female mayor.
- 1986 – The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker starts leaking while at the port of Savannah, resulting in an oil spill of approximately Template:Convert.
- 1992 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
- 2012 – "Il Canto degli Italiani" officially became the national anthem of Italy, 66 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the Italian Republic.
- Born/died: | Pope John XXII |d|1334| John Cotton |b|1585| John Leamy |d|1839| Gregor MacGregor |d|1845| Jesse Burkett |b|1868| Roberta Bondar |b|1945| Hannah Arendt |d|1975| Nancy Mace |b|1977| Pearl Corkhill |d|1985| Frank Zappa |d|1993|
Notes
- National Hockey League appears on November 26, so Montreal Canadiens should not appear in the same year
- Moscone–Milk assassinations appears on November 27, so Dianne Feinstein should appear in the same year
- Droppin Well bombing (1975) and Balcombe Street siege (1982) both appear on December 6, so McGurk's Bar bombing should not appear in the same year
December 4: Navy Day in India
- 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree made the first successful observation of a transit of Venus (example pictured) from Earth.
- 1872 – The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances that remain unknown.
- 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launched a successful attack against the Pakistan Navy at Karachi, sinking three ships with no Indian casualties.
- 1980 – The English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded.
- 2006 – Six black teenagers assaulted a white student in Jena, Louisiana; the subsequent court cases became a cause célèbre for perceived racial injustice in the United States.