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This is a list of selected December 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
John of Damascus |d|749| article says this date is only "traditional", hence not reliably sourced as being otd
771Austrasian King Carloman I died, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. unreferenced section
1676Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King Christian V in an area north of Lund, Sweden. needs more footnotes
1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published. refimprove
1937 – The first issue of The Dandy, the world's longest-running children's comic book, was published. refimprove
1949Duncan Stewart, the British governor of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed in Sibu during his first visit to the colony. uncertainty over date, see [1]
1954 – The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its signature item the Whopper, was founded in Miami, Florida, U.S. Date not in article, good faith research on internet can't turn up source for it.
1956 – Singers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, collectively called the "Million Dollar Quartet", recorded an impromptu jam session in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. refimprove
1977Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I. refimprove section
1979Bruce George Peter Lee set fire to a family home in Hull, England; after his arrest he revealed that he had started nine other fatal fires in the area. refimprove
1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon, was released after seven years in captivity. lots of CN tags in one section
1991Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations. {{prose}}

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December 4: Navy Day in India

2004 transit of Venus
2004 transit of Venus
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