Today's Calendar for December 4th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1640s

• Died 1642: Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (French clergyman and statesman)

1780s

• 1783: At Fraunces Tavern in New York's lower Manhattan, George Washington bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army, before traveling to Annapolis, Maryland, to resign his commission as commander-in-chief

1790s

• Born 1795: Thomas Carlyle (historian)

1860s

• 1867: National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry founded

1870s

• 1875: "Boss" Tweed escaped jail

1920s

• Born 1921: Deanna Durbin (actress)

• 1927: Crew of shipwrecked tanker Kyzikes rescued, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

1930s

• Born 1931: Ed Flesh (designer of the wheel on the TV game show "Wheel of Fortune")

1940s

• 1942: In its first aerial attack on Italy, the US bombs Naples

• Born 1945: Roberta Lynn Bondar (astronaut)

• Born 1949: Jeff Bridges (actor)

1950s

• 1955: First television appearance of Marcel Marceau

1960s

• 1961: Matisse's Le Bateau rehung after being upside down in art museum for 47 days, New York City

• Born 1964: Marisa Tomei (actress)

• Born 1969: Jay-Z (hip hop artist)

1990s

• Died 1993: Frank Zappa (musician)

2010s

• Died 2012: Besse Cooper (world’s oldest person at time of her death)

2020s

• 2021: Total Eclipse of the Sun.