Historical Events In December - 04

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

1990  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1990  On December - 04 edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74  

1991  Muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years) on this day in history.  

1991  On this day in history 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  On this day in history geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73  

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

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

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

2005  250,00 people in Hong Kong protest for democracy on December - 04.  

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

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

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  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  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  On this day in history french President Emmanuel Macron drops controversial rise in fuel tax after three weeks of mass protests  

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  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"  

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 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  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on December - 04.  

1580  On this day in history 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 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 December - 04.  

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

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

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

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

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

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  Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.  

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on December - 04.