Page 8: Historical Events In December - 04

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

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 December - 04.   

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

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

1991  On December - 04 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  On this day in history geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73   

1995  On December - 04 adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16   

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 this day in history.   

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  Typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1,901 people on December - 04.   

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 December - 04.   

2017  On this day in history new York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct   

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 December - 04.   

2018  Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize with film shot on her iPhone on December - 04.   

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

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

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  On this day in history [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.   

2020  Somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month on December - 04.   

2024  French political crisis: Michel Barnier becomes the first prime minister of France to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou in 1962 on this day in history.   

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  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on December - 04.   

1555  On December - 04 birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)   

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)   

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

1667  On this day in history birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer   

0765  Death of Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) on this day in history.   

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 December - 04.   

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