Today in History
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1991 Pan Am ceases operations
The Pan American World Airways, the largest airline in the United States began operations in October 1927.
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1982 China adopts its current constitution
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China replaced the Constitutions of 1954, 1975, and 1978.
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1980 Led Zeppelin disbands
The British rock band announced that it was disbanding 12 years after coming on the music scene after the death of drummer John Bonham.
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1978 Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco
A United States Senator from California, Feinstein became the 38th mayor of San Francisco after the murder of George Moscone.
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1791 First Sunday paper published
The Observer, a British newspaper, became the first newspaper in the world to be published and read on a Sunday.
Births On This Day, December 4
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1969 Jay-Z
American rapper, producer, actor, co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records
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1964 Marisa Tomei
American actress
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1949 Jeff Bridges
American actor, singer, producer
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1923 Charles Keating
American lawyer, businessman
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1892 Francisco Franco
Spanish general, politician, Caudillo of Spain
Deaths On This Day, December 4
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1993 Frank Zappa
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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1976 Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, pianist
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1975 Hannah Arendt
German/American theorist, philosopher
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1893 John Tyndall
British physicist
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1123 Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet
