Historical Events In December - 04

1988  Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash on this day in history.  

1990  On December - 04 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 December - 04.  

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

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

1992  On December - 04 uS Troops land in Somalia  

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

1994  On this day in history geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73  

1995  On this day in history adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16  

1996  On this day in history basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83  

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

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 this day in history.  

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

2012  On December - 04 typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people  

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  On this day in history new York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct  

2017  On this day in history new York Giants fire coach Bob McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese  

2017  Thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California on December - 04.  

2018  On December - 04 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  

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 December - 04.  

2018  On December - 04 french President Emmanuel Macron drops controversial rise in fuel tax after three weeks of mass protests  

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

2018  On this day in history 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"  

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1443  On this day in history birth of pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael  

1555  On this day in history birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)  

1580  On December - 04 birth of samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)  

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

1595  On December - 04 birth of jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)  

1646  Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) was born on December - 04.  

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

1667  On December - 04 birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer  

0765  On December - 04 death of jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)  

0771  On this day in history karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20  

0811  Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39 on this day in history.  

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

1123  Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) on December - 04.  

1137  On December - 04 lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67  

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.