Page 7: Historical Events In December - 04

1961  Smallest New York Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm) on December - 04.   

1961  Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN on December - 04.   

1964  On December - 04 beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album   

1965  On December - 04 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)   

1965  Launch of Gemini 7 piloted by CDR James A. Lovell, USN. This flight consisted of 206 orbits at an altitude of 327 km and lasted 13 days and 18 hours. Recovery by HS-11 helicopters from USS Wasp (CVS-18) on December - 04.   

1967  On December - 04 bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72   

1969  Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, killed in Chicago on December - 04.   

1969  Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1971  On December - 04 shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, dies   

1973  On December - 04 michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67   

1974  On this day in history dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims   

1974  Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36 on December - 04.   

1975  Hannah Arendt, German/US sociologist, dies at 69 [or Dec 5] on this day in history.   

1976  Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner) on this day in history.   

1976  On December - 04 benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63   

1977  On this day in history jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself   

1977  On December - 04 leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72   

1978  Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco first female mayor on this day in history.   

1978  On December - 04 pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus   

1978  Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1979  Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) on this day in history.   

1979  On this day in history robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62   

1980  On this day in history stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69   

1981  On December - 04 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV   

1981  According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa on this day in history.   

1981  President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence on this day in history.   

1983  On December - 04 aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and USS Independence (CV-62) launch strike against anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon that fired on U.S. aircraft. Two U.S. Navy planes shot down.   

1983  Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55 on December - 04.   

1984  On December - 04 hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner   

1984  John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94 on this day in history.   

1985  President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser on December - 04.   

1985  Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1986  On December - 04 reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89   

1987  On this day in history rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90   

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on December - 04.   

1555  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

1580  On December - 04 birth of samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)   

1584  On December - 04 birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony   

1595  Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) was born on December - 04.   

1646  Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) was born on December - 04.   

1660  On December - 04 birth of andre Campra, composer   

1667  Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer was born on December - 04.   

0765  Death of Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) on December - 04.   

0771  On December - 04 karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20   

0811  On this day in history charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39   

1075  On December - 04 death of archbishop Anno II of Cologne   

1123  Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) on December - 04.   

1137  On this day in history lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67   

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.   

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on this day in history.