Page 8: Historical Events In December - 04

1988  Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash on December - 04.   

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 December - 04.   

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

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

1991  On this day in history the Judds final concert (Nashville)   

1992  On December - 04 uS Troops land in Somalia   

1993  On December - 04 frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68   

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

1995  Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16 on this day in history.   

1996  Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

2005  On December - 04 250,00 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 December - 04.   

2012  On this day in history typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people   

2014  The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began on this day in history.   

2017  On this day in history uS Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries   

2017  On December - 04 uS President Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%)   

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

2017  On December - 04 new York Giants fire coach Bob McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese   

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  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 this day in history.   

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

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

2018  First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil on this day in history.   

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

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 December - 04.   

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 December - 04.   

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

2024  On December - 04 french political crisis: Michel Barnier becomes the first prime minister of France to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou in 1962.   

2024  Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shot and killed by a lone gunman in Midtown Manhattan, sparking debate and criticism of the health insurance industry in the United States on this day in history.   

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

1555  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

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

1584  John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony was born on December - 04.   

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 this day in history.   

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on this day in history.   

1667  Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer was born on December - 04.   

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

0771  On December - 04 karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20   

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

1075  Death of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne on December - 04.   

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

1137  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of william I of Scotland