"In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit, its sister ship, Gemini 6A, was launched on Dec. 15 on a one-day mission; the two spacecraft were able to rendezvous within a foot of each other.) In 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party were shot and killed during a raid by Chicago police."
"In 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, dubbed the Million Dollar Quartet, gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis. In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in to protest university restrictions on political activity on campus."
Dec. 4 marks diverse historical events. The Million Dollar Quartet — Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins — gathered for a 1956 jam at Sun Records in Memphis. In 1964, police arrested about 800 UC Berkeley students after a massive sit-in protesting political restrictions. The United States launched Gemini 7 in 1965; Gemini 6A later rendezvoused within a foot. In 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed during a Chicago police raid. In 1991, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was freed after nearly seven years in captivity. In 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch fired shots at Comet Ping Pong while investigating an online conspiracy; no one was hurt.
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