Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 4
- 1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission later grew into Chicago, Illinois).
- 1829 - Unaware of the depth of Indian opposition and with popular British support, British Lord William Bentinck carried a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
- 1952 - Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descended on London ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" became a word).
- 1991 - Pan Am Airways ended operations.
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