Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 4

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1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
1791 - The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
1829 - The practice of sati was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy (pictured) against this Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves.
1977 - The President of the Central African Republic had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I in a lavish ceremony.