Historical Events In December - 04

1988  On this day in history actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash  

1990  On December - 04 due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC  

1990  Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages on this day in history.  

1990  Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74 on this day in history.  

1991  On December - 04 muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)  

1991  On December - 04 the Judds final concert (Nashville)  

1992  US Troops land in Somalia on December - 04.  

1993  On this day in history frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68  

1994  Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1995  On December - 04 adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16  

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1996  On December - 04 basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83  

1997  David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72 on December - 04.  

2005  On this day in history 250,00 people in Hong Kong protest for democracy.  

2007  The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey on December - 04.  

2012  On this day in history 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria  

2012  Typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people on December - 04.  

2014  On December - 04 the United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began  

2017  US Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries on December - 04.  

2017  US President Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%) on this day in history.  

2017  New York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct on this day in history.  

2017  New York Giants fire coach Bob McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese on December - 04.  

2017  Thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California on this day in history.  

2018  Ownership group Seattle Hockey Partners led by billionaire businessman Davis Bonderman is unanimously granted an NHL license by the Board of Governors; to start play 2020-21 season at KeyArena on December - 04.  

2018  Theresa May's UK government suffers three parliamentary defeats in one day, also found in contempt of parliament for failing to publish report in full on Brexit on this day in history.  

2018  French President Emmanuel Macron drops controversial rise in fuel tax after three weeks of mass protests on December - 04.  

2018  On this day in history attempts to establish mob council in Sicily thwarted when 46 members of the mafia arrested including Settimio Mineo  

2018  Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize with film shot on her iPhone on this day in history.  

2018  On December - 04 first successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil  

2018  On December - 04 french couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies  

2018  On December - 04 native Americans had just one migration from Siberia to the New World, at most 23,000 years ago, in research published in "Nature" and "Science"  

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 65 million worldwide, with the global death toll exceeding 1.5 million. Figures reflect that, in the last week, over 10,000 people worldwide have died on average every day, with one death every nine seconds. According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 had caused more deaths in 2020 than tuberculosis in 2019, as well as four times the number of deaths than malaria on this day in history.  

2020  On December - 04 somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month.  

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on this day in history.  

1555  On December - 04 birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)  

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on this day in history.  

1584  On December - 04 birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

1595  Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) was born on this day in history.  

1646  On December - 04 birth of alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)  

1660  On December - 04 birth of andre Campra, composer  

1667  Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer was born on this day in history.  

0765  Death of Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) on December - 04.  

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on December - 04.  

0811  On December - 04 charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39  

1075  Death of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne on this day in history.  

1123  On December - 04 death of omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)  

1137  Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 on December - 04.  

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.  

1214  On this day in history death of william I of Scotland