Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 4, 2021
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Saturday, December 4, 2021
Died
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (French clergyman and statesman) –
- Frank Zappa (musician) –
- Besse Cooper (world’s oldest person at time of her death) –
Born
- Thomas Carlyle (historian) –
- Deanna Durbin (actress) –
- Ed Flesh (designer of the wheel on the TV game show Wheel of Fortune) –
- Roberta Lynn Bondar (astronaut) –
- Jeff Bridges (actor) –
- Marisa Tomei (actress) –
- Jay-Z (hip hop artist) –
Events
- At Fraunces Tavern in New York’s lower Manhattan, George Washington bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army, before traveling to Annapolis, Maryland, to resign his commission as commander-in-chief –
- National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry founded –
- Boss Tweed escaped jail –
- Crew of shipwrecked tanker Kyzikes rescued, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina –
- In its first aerial attack on Italy, the US bombs Naples –
- First television appearance of Marcel Marceau –
- Matisse’s Le Bateau rehung after being upside down in The Museum of Modern Art for 47 days, New York City –
- Brenda Lee’s Christmas hit “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 65 years after its original release –
Weather
- New Haven, Connecticut, received 20 inches of snow in the first of two major snowstorms that December –
- The temperature dropped from 52 degrees F to 18 degrees F in 20 minutes, Livingston, Montana –
- Central Park in NYC reached 72 degrees F –