This Day in History Dec. 4

Dec. 4

1619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Virginia)
1674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1783 General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York NY
1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster PA patents a horse-drawn mower
1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
1864 Battle of Waynesborough, Brier Creek GA
1889 Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed
1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France
1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1939 HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast
1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WWII
1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
1961 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN
1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts (Borman & Lovell)
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1982 China adopts its constitution
1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1992 US Troops land in Somalia
1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

I always read these BWM.
Thanks.
This one made me chuckle though.
"1939, HMS Nelson is struck by a mine..."
What, the mine came cruising along and hit the ship like a torpedo?