On this day in History - Dec. 04

• 1334 - Pope John XXII, died
• 1443 - Pope Julius II, born (d 1513)
• 1586 - Elisabeth I England confirms the death sentence against Marie Stuart
• 1619 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
• 1642 - Cardinal Richelieu, died, French statesman
• 1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission later grew into Chicago, Illinois).
• 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, died, English philosoph
• 1783 - George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.
• 1791 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published
• 1800 - Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup, born , Danish poet
• 1816 - James Monroe of Virginia was elected (by electors) the fifth president of the United Sates.
• 1829 - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide
• 1866 - Vasily Kandinsky, born , Russian painter
• 1875 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall escaped from jail and fled the country.
• 1893 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
• 1918 - President Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference.
• 1931 - Alex Delvecchio, born, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
• 1940 - John Cale, born, rock musician (The Velvet Underground)
• 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.
• 1942 - U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time in World War II.
• 1945 - The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations.
• 1949 - Jeff Bridges, born, actor
• 1952 - Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descended on London ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" became a word).
• 1954 - Ghanaian government breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium.
• 1963 - Sergey Bubka, born, athlete (pole vault)
• 1965 - The United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard.
• 1973 - Tyra Banks, born, actress-model
• 1977 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
• 1977 - A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johore, killing 100.
• 1978 - San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone.
• 1980 - Francisco Sá Carneiro Portuguese politician, prime minister, died in office, when his plane crashed into a building in Camarate, soon after taking-off from Lisbon airport, when heading to Oporto to take party in a rally for the coalition presidential candidate, António Soares Carneiro.
• 1980 - Adelino Amaro da Costa Portuguese politician, Minister of Defense died when his plane crashed (see last entry)
• 1984 - a five-day hijack drama began as four armed men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran, where the hijackers killed American passenger Charles Hegna.
• 1984 - Lindsay Felton, born, actress
• 1991 - Pan Am Airlines ended operations.
• 1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is released after seven years as a hostage in Lebanon.1992 - President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.
• 1993 - A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
• 1993 - Rock musician and composer Frank Zappa died at age 52.
• 1994 - Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of some 400 U.N. peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
• 2003 - Maria de Arruda Muller, died, Brazilien teacher and poet (born in Cuiabá, MT, em 09-Dec-1888)
• 2003 - Interpol put the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, on its most-wanted list