December 4: Navy Day in India
A transit of Venus
- 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus (pictured).
- 1829 – Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves, was prohibited in part of British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy.
- 1909 – The first Grey Cup game, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, was held.
- 1979 – Bruce 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.
- 1992 – US President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
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