December 4

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 4. From 1900 until now. December 4 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Jay-Z (1969), Tyra Banks (1973) and Jeff Bridges (1949). Several movies were released around December 4 over the years, such as Heat in 1995 directed by Michael Mann and Barry Lyndon in 1975 directed by Stanley Kubrick.
But much more happened on December 4 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman festivals - secret ceremonies in honor of Bona Dea
R.C. Saints - Saint John of Damascus: optional memorial; also Saint Barbara
Santerfa, Lukumf - Day of Shango
International Hug Day. See Also: January 21st, National Hugging Day
Navy Day in India
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Events

2018 Operation Northern Shield: Israel announces an operation to clear Hezbollah tunnels from Lebanon-Israeli border. (The Times of Israel)
2017 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen; Yemeni Civil War: Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is killed by Houthi forces in a roadside attack outside Sana'a after an earlier attack on his house. (BBC) (NPR)
2016 Insurgency in the North Caucasus: The Russian Federal Security Service claims to have killed Rustam Asildarov, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's Caucasus Province and four other militants in the Dagestan region. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia), (RFERL), (CNN)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A mortar attack in Afghanistan's central Wardak province kills at least 12 people. (Tolo News)
2014 2014 Grozny clashes:: Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed. (RT)
2013 Northern Mali:: A mass grave is discovered near Bamako holding the remains of 21 loyalist soldiers said to have gone missing last year during Mali's coup. (Al Jazeera)
2012 Syrian civil war:: The Syrian Army clashes with rebels close to Damascus. (AAP via News Limited)A mortar attack destroys a school in the small city of Bteeha, on the road to Homs north of the capital. According to the state news agency SANA at least 29 are killed, while activists report 9 deaths. (New York Times)NATO sends Patriot missiles to Turkey to help it protect its citizens in case the Civil War spills over the border. (CNN)
2011 45,000 citizens of Koblenz, Germany, are allowed to return home after bomb squads defused World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for almost 65 years. (CNN)
2010 Dozens of Easter Islanders are injured in conflict over ownership as riot police evict islanders from their ancestral home. (Al Jazeera)
2009 US Marines and Afghan troops launch Operation Cobra's Anger in northern Helmand province. (Bloomberg)
2008 Iraq's Presidency Council approves a security pact with the United States, which requires U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi towns by mid-2009 and leave the country by the end of 2011.
2007 Michael A. Newdow, attorney and founder of the First Amendmist Church of True Science, initiates lawsuits challenging government-sanctioned references to God, and the statute that requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American coins and paper currency.
2006 An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
2005 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israel launches a series of air strikes as reprisals after the Palestinians fired Qassam rockets, hitting what local officials called an Islamic Jihad charity in the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
2004 The Mozambique presidential election vote count continues in all of the country, with Frelimo and its candidate Armando Guebuza leading, according to the preliminary results already known, and especially in Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane, traditional regions of influence for the party in power. (Wikinews)
2003 Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller is injured in a helicopter crash outside Warsaw.
2001 Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia dies in office.
1998 The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
1997 Diary of Anne Frank, opens at Music Box Theater, New York City
1996 7th Billboard Music Awards
1994 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1).
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 metre (35.92 seconds).
1992 Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
1991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City, New York.
1989 Prime Minister of Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker resigns and is replaced by Mudar Badran.
1988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51).
1986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7.
1985 Les Miserables opens at Palace Theatre, London
1984 Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1983 Amen Corner closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
1982 China adopts its constitution
1981 Falcon Crest premieres on CBS-TV
1980 English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.
1979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey number 7, Bingo Smith.
1978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
1977 Hollis Stacy / Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
1975 Suriname joins the United Nations.
1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims.
1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1971 The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song ''Smoke on the Water''.
1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8 percent.
1969 Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
1967 Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Roar of the Greasepaint closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1963 Pope Paul VI closes second session of second Vatican Council.
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations vetoed by the Soviet Union for inscrutable reasons.
1959 A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.
1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns.
1957 The Lewisham train disaster in the UK leaves 92 dead.
1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback).
1954 Hit the Trail closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO.
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), killing 500.
1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97-yard touchdown run.
1948 Magdalena closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union.
1945 US Senate approves US participation in United Nations.
1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, flooding Betuwe.
1943 Second conference of Ca?ro: US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Turkish President In�nn.
1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1941 The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.
1939 World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
1937 ''The Dandy'' comic is first published in Scotland it will still be running .
1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1931 Frankenstein opens at Mayfair
1930 French government of AndrT Tardieu falls.
1927 Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
1921 The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court.
1909 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26 : 6.
1906 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, was founded at Cornell University.
1905 British government of Balfour resigns.
1904 The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark.
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