MONDAY, Dec. 04, 2023

1619 — America's first Thanksgiving Day (Virginia)

1655 — Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue

1682 — First General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)

1791 — Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, first published

1829 — Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)

1843 — Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Massachusetts

1851 — President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France

1941 — Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts

1944 — Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded

1945 — Senate approves U.S. participation in U.N.

1952 — Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word

1957 — First edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published

1961 — Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days

1964 — Baseball approves a free-agent draft

1981 — President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (No 12333)

1982 — China adopts its constitution

1985 — "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London

1997 — "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC