On this day, December 4th: Chicago police kill two Black Panthers – Mark Clark and Fred Hampton

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson became the first sitting U.S. president to travel to Europe. He led the US delegation to a peace conference to end the First World War.

In 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dissolution of the Works Projects Administration, which had been created during the Great Depression to provide work for the unemployed. The WPA was originally called the Works Progress Administration.

In 1954, the first Burger King fast food restaurant opened – in Miami.

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In 1969, Chicago police killed two members of the Black Panthers – Mark Clark and Fred Hampton – in what officials called a shootout. An investigation later revealed that police had falsified their report and fired about 100 bullets compared to one shot by the two men. All charges against police were dismissed.

In 1971, India joined East Pakistan in its war of independence from West Pakistan. East Pakistan became the Republic of Bangladesh.

In 1991, American Terry Anderson was released by his pro-Iranian captors after six years.

In 1992, President George HW Bush ordered US troops to invade Somalia.

In 1997, health authorities in Europe voted to ban most forms of tobacco advertising from four to five years old.

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In 2006, John Bolton resigned as US envoy to the United Nations. He was a harsh critic of the UN bureaucracy.

In 2009, an Italian jury found U.S. exchange student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox and Sollecito were acquitted in 2011.

In 2012, in response to the challenge of surviving on food stamps, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker began spending less than $5 a day on groceries for a week – by posting his grocery receipts on Facebook and Twitter . “This is tough,” said Booker, who became a U.S. senator in 2013.

In 2022, singer Gladys Knight, Irish rock band U2, Cuban-born composer Tania Leon, singer-songwriter Amy Grant and actor and filmmaker George Clooney were honored at the annual Kennedy Center Honors.

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