This day in History - December 4

377 Historic Events for December 4
1942 Event US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
1942 Event FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 Event 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1943 Event -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish pres Inonu
1943 Event Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943 Event Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
1943 Birth Patti Chandler, Calif, actress (Bikini Beach)
1943 Death Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1944 Birth Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-My Room)
1944 Event Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 Birth Michael Gerzon, mathematician
1945 Event Senate approves US participation in UN
1945 Event 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
1945 Birth Pam Higgins, LPGA golfer
1947 Event USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
1947 Birth Ursula Krechel, writer
1948 Birth Lin Onus, artist
1948 Event "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
1948 Death Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1948 Event SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1948 Birth Roberta Lynn Bondar, Ontario, astronaut (STS 42)
1948 Birth Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
1949 Event Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1949 Birth Jeff Bridges, LA Calif, actor (Stay Hungry, Against All Odds)
1949 Birth Mary Bea Porter-King, Everett WA, LPGA golfer (1975 Golf Inns Classic)