December 4
WORLD Wildlife Conservation Day
NATIONAL Santa's List Day
NATIONAL Wear Brown Shoes Day
NATIONAL Sock Day
NATIONAL Cookie Day
NATIONAL Dice Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1619 America’s first Thanksgiving Day was held in Virginia, with a proclamation that the day “be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God”
1783 George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City
1947 Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres on Broadway starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy
1950 The University of Tennessee defies court rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants
1981 President Ronald Reagan broadens the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the United States
1993 Astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour captured the Hubble Space Telescope for repairs
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