TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS Dec. 4, 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.

ON THIS DATE 1954

The first Burger King stand was opened in Miami by James McLamore and David Edgerton.

1978

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

1986

Both houses of Congress moved to establish special committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra affair.