December 4th in History
December 4th
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.
1798 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.
1872 Crew from the British brigantine Die Gratia boarded a deserted ship drifting in mid Atlantic. The captain's table was set for a meal aboard the US ship Marie Celeste but the Captain, crew and passengers were all missing.
On the fateful evening of December 4, 1956, an unassuming recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, bore witness to a historic gathering of musicians that would only ever happen once. Sun Studio, under the proprietorship of the visionary Sam Phillips, became the unexpected stage for an impromptu jam session featuring four iconic figures: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Individually, these musicians had already etched their names into the burgeoning rock and roll scene, but this unplanned convergence would elevate their status to legendary proportions.The Million Dollar Quartet was born.
2014 Knutsford council, in Cheshire, approved plans to widen the town's pavements. 220 years previously, spinster Lady Jane Stanley had paid for narrow pavements to be laid in the town, to prevent lovers from strolling arm in arm.
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.
1798 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.
1872 Crew from the British brigantine Die Gratia boarded a deserted ship drifting in mid Atlantic. The captain's table was set for a meal aboard the US ship Marie Celeste but the Captain, crew and passengers were all missing.
On the fateful evening of December 4, 1956, an unassuming recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, bore witness to a historic gathering of musicians that would only ever happen once. Sun Studio, under the proprietorship of the visionary Sam Phillips, became the unexpected stage for an impromptu jam session featuring four iconic figures: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Individually, these musicians had already etched their names into the burgeoning rock and roll scene, but this unplanned convergence would elevate their status to legendary proportions.The Million Dollar Quartet was born.
2014 Knutsford council, in Cheshire, approved plans to widen the town's pavements. 220 years previously, spinster Lady Jane Stanley had paid for narrow pavements to be laid in the town, to prevent lovers from strolling arm in arm.
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