December 4 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Jewish: Chanukah: 1 Candle חנוכה: א׳ נר holiday

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2015 — A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people. ↗
• 2014 — Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state... ↗
• 2006 — Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana. ↗
• 2005 — Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage. ↗
• 1998 — The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1595 — Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (d. 1674)
• 1585 — John Cotton, English-American minister and theologian (d. 1652)
• 1580 — Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)
• 1575 — Sister Virginia Maria, Italian nun (d. 1650)
• 1555 — Heinrich Meibom, German poet and historian (d. 1625)