TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 4

1978:Dianne Feinstein becomes the first female mayor of San Francisco, after the murder of Mayor George Moscone.

1927: Duke Ellington and his 11-piece band begin a four-year run at the Cotton Club in Harlem.

1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt abolishes the Works Progress Administration.

1991: Journalist Terry Anderson, the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon, is released after nearly seven years in