TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2018. There are 27 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY

On Dec. 4, 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

• Game show host Wink Martindale is 85. • Actor-producer Max Baer Jr. is 81.• Actress Gemma Jones is 76. • Actor Jeff Bridges is 69. n Rock musician Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd; the Rossington Collins Band) is 67. • Actress Patricia Wettig is 67. • Country musician Brian Prout (Diamond Rio) is 63. • Actress Marisa Tomei is 54. • Actor-comedian Fred Armisen is 52. • Rapper Jay-Z is 49. • Actress-model Tyra Banks is 45. • Country singer Lila McCann is 37.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist (1742-1799).

ON THIS DATE

In 1619, a group of settlers from Bristol, England, arrived at Berkeley Hundred in present-day Charles City County, Virginia, where they held a service thanking God for their safe arrival.

In 1867, the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, also known as The Grange, was founded in Washington, D.C., to promote the interests of farmers.

In 1942, during World War II, U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time with a raid on Naples. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.

In 1978, San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone.

In 2000, in a pair of legal setbacks for Al Gore, a Florida state judge refused to overturn George W. Bush’s certified victory in Florida and the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling that had allowed manual recounts.