Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 4
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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: In an area north of Lund, Sweden, forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark.
- 1791 - The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
- 1829 - The practice of sati was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy against this Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves.
- 1977 - The President of the Central African Republic had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I.
Recent days: December 3 – December 2 – December 1
