Historical Events In December - 04

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

1990  On this day in history due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC  

1990  On December - 04 iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages  

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

1991  On this day in history muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)  

1991  The Judds final concert (Nashville) on December - 04.  

1992  On this day in history uS Troops land in Somalia  

1993  Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1994  Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73 on December - 04.  

1995  Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16 on December - 04.  

1996  Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83 on December - 04.  

1997  On December - 04 david Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72  

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

2007  The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey on this day in history.  

2012  On December - 04 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria  

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

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

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

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

2017  On December - 04 new York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct  

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

2017  On this day in history thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California  

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 this day in history.  

2018  On December - 04 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  

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  First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil on this day in history.  

2018  French couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies on this day in history.  

2018  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" on this day in history.  

2020  On December - 04 [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.  

2020  Somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

1595  On this day in history birth of jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)  

1646  Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) was born on this day in history.  

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on December - 04.  

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

0765  On this day in history death of jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)  

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on this day in history.  

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

1075  On December - 04 death of archbishop Anno II of Cologne  

1123  On this day in history 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  On December - 04 henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies  

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on this day in history.