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December 4

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Observed on December 4, 2026
  • ChanukahJewish

    Chanukah begins — the eight-day festival of lights recalling the rededication of the Temple.

  1. 1975 CEJewish · died

    Hannah Arendt, a political thinker who wrote extensively on Jewish identity and history, died in New York City.

  2. 34 CEGraeco-Roman · born

    Aulus Persius Flaccus, the Roman satirist whose verse gave Stoic ethics a sharp poetic voice, was born in Etruria.

  3. 1971 CEBuddhist · died

    Shunryu Suzuki, the Soto Zen teacher who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and inspired the book 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind,' died on this day in 1971.

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