December 4 Events |
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| December 4th, 2006 (December 04 2006) | Event | An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. | |
| December 4th, 2005 (December 04 2005) | Event | Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage. | |
| December 4th, 1998 (December 04 1998) | Event | The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. | |
| December 4th, 1993 (December 04 1993) | Event | A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels. | |
| December 4th, 1992 (December 04 1992) | Event | Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| December 4th, 1991 (December 04 1991) | Event | Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon. | |
| December 4th, 1991 (December 04 1991) | Event | Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations. | |
| December 4th, 1984 (December 04 1984) | Event | Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers. | |
| December 4th, 1982 (December 04 1982) | Event | The People s Republic of China adopts its current constitution. | |
| December 4th, 1981 (December 04 1981) | Event | South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa). | |
| December 4th, 1979 (December 04 1979) | Event | The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee. | Bruce Lee Quotes |
| December 4th, 1978 (December 04 1978) | Event | Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California s first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988). | |
| December 4th, 1977 (December 04 1977) | Event | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. | Bede Quotes |
| December 4th, 1977 (December 04 1977) | Event | Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100. | |
| December 4th, 1971 (December 04 1971) | Event | The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. | |
| December 4th, 1971 (December 04 1971) | Event | The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. | |
| December 4th, 1971 (December 04 1971) | Event | The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". | Frank Zappa Quotes |
| December 4th, 1969 (December 04 1969) | Event | Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. | |
| December 4th, 1967 (December 04 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta. | |
| December 4th, 1958 (December 04 1958) | Event | Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community. | |
| December 4th, 1954 (December 04 1954) | Event | The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA | |
| December 4th, 1952 (December 04 1952) | Event | Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow. | |
| December 4th, 1951 (December 04 1951) | Event | Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government. | |
| December 4th, 1945 (December 04 1945) | Event | By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945). | |
| December 4th, 1943 (December 04 1943) | Event | World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. | |
| December 4th, 1943 (December 04 1943) | Event | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. | |
| December 4th, 1942 (December 04 1942) | Event | Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization. | |
| December 4th, 1942 (December 04 1942) | Event | Carlson s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. | |
| December 4th, 1921 (December 04 1921) | Event | The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. | |
| December 4th, 1918 (December 04 1918) | Event | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. | |
| December 4th, 1906 (December 04 1906) | Event | Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, is founded at Cornell University. | |
| December 4th, 1881 (December 04 1881) | Event | The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. | |
| December 4th, 1875 (December 04 1875) | Event | Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain. | |
| December 4th, 1872 (December 04 1872) | Event | The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged). | |
| December 4th, 1867 (December 04 1867) | Event | Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). | |
| December 4th, 1864 (December 04 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Sherman s March to the SeaAt Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman s campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces did suffer more than three times the Confederate casualties, however. | William March Quotes |
| December 4th, 1829 (December 04 1829) | Event | In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide. | |
| December 4th, 1791 (December 04 1791) | Event | The first issue of The Observer, the world s first Sunday newspaper, is published. | |
| December 4th, 1783 (December 04 1783) | Event | At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 4th, 1676 (December 04 1676) | Event | Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt. | |
| December 4th, 1674 (December 04 1674) | Event | Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois). | |
| December 4th, 1619 (December 04 1619) | Event | 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas). | |
| December 4th, 1563 (December 04 1563) | Event | The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545). | |
| December 4th, 1259 (December 04 1259) | Event | Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels. | Louis IX of France Quotes |
| December 4th, 1110 (December 04 1110) | Event | First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon. | |
| December 4th, 0771 (December 04 0771) | Event | Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. | Charlemagne Quotes |
