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On This Day In History for December 4, 2024

This is the 339th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining in 2024.

It was on this date in 1791, that the first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, was published.
Also today in 1872, The American brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered drifting in the Atlantic. Her crew is never found..
It was on this date in 1881, that the first edition of the Los Angeles Times was published.
Also today in 1956, The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) got together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
It was on this date in 1965, that Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
It was 33 years ago today, that Pan American World Airways ceased its operations after 64 years.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German anatomist and botanist, Johann Gottfried Zinn, born on this date in 1727.
Born December 4, 1908, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate Alfred Hershey.
Also born on that same date in 1933, American game show host and producer, Wink Martindale.
American actor, director, and producer, Max Baer Jr. is 87 today.
Also born on that same date in 1949, American actor, Jeff Bridges.
American actor, Tony Todd was born 70 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

6 – SuperMoonMan
7 – Peter aka Zzippster from the Zzipp and Co. Podcast, Weymouth, Dorset, UK
8 – DanDman
8 – Gydian (Michael H.)
9 – Steve Kite (BigUnit62)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 4, 2024

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