Historical Events In December - 04
Friday, 19 April 2024
1988 On December - 04 actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC on December - 04.
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 December - 04.
1991 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1993 On this day in history frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73 on December - 04.
1995 On December - 04 adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1996 On December - 04 basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1997 On this day in history david Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
2005 On this day in history 250,00 people in Hong Kong protest for democracy.
2007 On this day in history the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey.
2012 On December - 04 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
2012 On this day in history typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people
2014 On this day in history 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 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 On this day in history 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 December - 04 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 December - 04.
2018 On this day in history 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 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 [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.
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