December 4, 1918
President Woodrow Wilson leaves for Europe from New York aboard the SS George Washington to attend the Paris Peace Conference. He is the first U.S. President to visit a foreign country while in office.
Belgian politician Frans Van Cauwelaert starts the daily newspaper De Standaard as the voice for the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams political party.
Born Today:
Maurice Binder, American designer, who created the famous title sequences for the James Bond films from Dr. No to Licence to Kill, in New York City (died 1991).
Isabel McNeill Carley, American composer and music educator, co-founder of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, in Chicago (died 2011).
Robert Ettinger, American academic, promoter of cryonics, founder of the Immortalist Society, in Atlantic City, New Jersey (died 2011).
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