Historical Events In December - 04

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

1990  Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC on this day in history.  

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

1990  On December - 04 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  The Judds final concert (Nashville) on December - 04.  

1992  US Troops land in Somalia on December - 04.  

1993  Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68 on December - 04.  

1994  On December - 04 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 December - 04 basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83  

1997  David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

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  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 December - 04.  

2017  New York Giants fire coach Bob McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese on this day in history.  

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 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 December - 04.  

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 December - 04 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 December - 04.  

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  Somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month on December - 04.  

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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 December - 04.  

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on December - 04.  

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

1214  On December - 04 death of william I of Scotland