Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 4
December 4: Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2007); Navy Day in India
- 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus (2004 picture shown).
- 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 at the Battle of Lund in an area north of Lund, Sweden.
- 1791 – The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
- 1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.
- 1992 – Operation Restore Hope: U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order after the dissolution of the country's central government during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
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