4 December

The **4t o December** is the 338t day o the year (339t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 27 days bidin.

## Events

* 1154 - Nicholas Breakspear is electit as Pape. He becomes kent as Pape Adrian IV, an is the only Inglis pape.
* 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's airmy reaches Derby.
* 1872 - The empty ship "Mary Celeste" is foond driftin near the Azores.
* 1909 - The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team is foondit.
* 1954 - The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.
* 1958 - Dahomey (nou Benin) gains self-govrenment within the French-speakin Community.
* 1965 - The "Gemini 7" space mission launches.
* 1975 - Suriname jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1980 - The baund Led Zeppelin propales its break-up.
* 1992 - George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 troops intae Somalie.
* 1998 - The "Unity" module tae the Internaitional Space Station is launched.
* 2009 - A nicht club fire in Perm, Roushie, kills 113 fowk.
* 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Norbert Hofer in the re-run o the Austrick preses election 2016.
* 2016 - A majority o voters in Italy rejects constitutional change in a referendum, resultin in the demission o Prime meenister Matteo Renzi.

## Births

* 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scots writer an historian (d. 1881)
* 1817 - Thomas Thomson, Scots botanist an surgeon (d. 1878)
* 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrick poet an writer (d. 1926)
* 1892 - Francisco Franco, Spaingie dictator (d. 1975)
* 1910 - R. Venkataraman, Preses o Indie (d. 2009)
* 1921 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress an sangster (d. 2013)
* 1930 - Ronnie Corbett, Scots actor an comedian (d. 2016)
* 1932 - Roh Tae-woo, former Preses o Sooth Korea
* 1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress, writer an psychologist
* 1949 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
* 1955 - Philip Hammond, Inglis politeecian
* 1963 - Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
* 1964 - Sertab Erener, Turkish sangster
* 1964 - Marisa Tomei, American actress
* 1969 - Jay-Z, American rapper an sangster
* 1973 - Tyra Banks, American model, telly personality an actress
* 1993 - Caitlin Pringle, Scots badminton player
* 1995 - Dina Asher-Smith, Inglis track-an-field athlete

## Daiths
* 771 - Carloman I, Frankish King (b. 751)
* 1123 - Omar Khayyam, Persie polymath (b. 1048)
* 1214 - William the Lion, King o Scots (b. 1143)
* 1334 - Pape John XXII (b. 1249)
* 1585 - John Willock, Scots reformer (b. 1515)
* 1642 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
* 1649 - William Drummond o Hawthornden, Scots poet (b. 1585)
* 1649 - Alexander Hume, Scots poet (b. 1580)
* 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, Inglis philosopher (b. 1588)
* 1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian pheesicist (b. 1737)
* 1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nt Yerl o Liverpuil, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1770)
* 1975 - Hannah Arendt, German poleetical philosopher (b. 1906)
* 1976 - Benjamin Britten, Inglis componer (b. 1913)
* 1993 - Frank Zappa, American muisicker (b. 1940)
* 2015 - Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
* 2017 - Jimmy Hood, Scots politeecian (b. 1948)
* 2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, Preses o Yemen (b. 1942)

## Halidays
* Navy Day (Indie an Italy)
* Miners' Day (Poland)
* Environment Day (Thailand)
* Tupou I Day (Tonga)
* St. Barbara - Christian saunt