Notable Historical Events on December 4th
December 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1110 |
Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders |
1154 |
Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. |
1197 |
Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah |
1259 |
Treaty of Paris: English King Henry III & French King Louis IX |
1489 |
Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from Moors |
1534 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad |
1563 |
Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years |
1619 |
38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many as the first Thanksgiving in the Americas. |
1644 |
1st European peace congress opens in Munster |
1655 |
Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue |
1665 |
Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris |
1674 |
Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago |
1676 |
Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt. |
1680 |
Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th |
1682 |
1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester) |
1688 |
General John Churchill (later 1st Duke of Marlborough) changes allegiance from James II to William of Orange |
1691 |
Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania |
1691 |
Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby |
1783 |
Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC |
1791 |
Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published |
1798 |
Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt |
1812 |
Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower |
1816 |
James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King |
1829 |
Britain abolishes "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
1832 |
French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
1833 |
American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila |
1836 |
Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa |
1843 |
Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass |
1843 |
Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig |
1844 |
James K. Polk elected 11th US President |
1851 |
Pres Louis Napoleon Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France |
1863 |
Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces |
1864 |
Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA |
1864 |
Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law |
1867 |
Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). |
1872 |
The ship the Mary Celeste discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean |
1875 |
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail |
1881 |
The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. |
1889 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean |
1899 |
56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes |
1899 |
Webb Hayes, son of pres Rutherford Hayes, receives medal of honor |
1901 |
Anne Russell's 'Girl and the judge' premieres in NYC |
1905 |
British government of Balfour resigns |
1906 |
Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms |
1908 |
Haiti's president General Alexis Nord flees from military coup |
1908 |
The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband |
1909 |
1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6 |
1914 |
Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court |
1915 |
F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor |
1915 |
Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga |
1915 |
Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco |
1915 |
Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas' |
1918 |
Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office |
1920 |
1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds |
1920 |
8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3 |
1921 |
The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. |
1922 |
Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service |
1923 |
Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres |
1923 |
WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show) |
1926 |
14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7 |
1927 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1927 |
Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem |
1927 |
Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP |
1928 |
Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in NYC |
1930 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
1930 |
Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control |
1931 |
"Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair |
1933 |
FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration |
1933 |
Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC |
1935 |
1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class |
1941 |
Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts |
1942 |
1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) |
1942 |
FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration |
1942 |
US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II |
1942 |
Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization. |
1943 |
-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu |
1943 |
Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes |
1943 |
Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar |
1944 |
Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded |
1945 |
11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) |
1945 |
Senate approves US participation in UN |
1947 |
USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union |
1948 |
"Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1948 |
SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die |
1949 |
Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run |
1951 |
Aaron Copland's/Robbins' "Pied Piper" premieres in NYC |
1951 |
Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500 |
1951 |
Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government. |
1952 |
Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word |
1952 |
Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO |
1954 |
"Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 perfs |
1954 |
"On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances |
1954 |
The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA |
1955 |
Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht |
1956 |
22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB) |
1957 |
1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published |
1957 |
2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's, England) |
1958 |
Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community |
1958 |
Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns |
1961 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
1961 |
Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days |
1961 |
Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm) |
1961 |
Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN |
1961 |
WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968) |
1963 |
Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council |
1964 |
Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
1964 |
Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
1964 |
Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
1964 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31 |
1965 |
"Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs |
1965 |
2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die |
1965 |
2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) |
1965 |
Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched |
1965 |
SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000 |
1966 |
KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march |
1970 |
Unemployment in US increases to 5.8% |
1971 |
The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. |
1971 |
The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. |
1971 |
McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles' |
1973 |
Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter |
1974 |
Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims |
1974 |
Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison |
1975 |
6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead |
1977 |
Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship |
1977 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central African Empire |
1977 |
NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7 |
1977 |
Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" premieres in NYC |
1977 |
66th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (3-1) |
1978 |
Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor |
1978 |
Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed |
1978 |
Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus |
1979 |
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith |
1980 |
2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up |
1980 |
Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies) |
1981 |
"Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV |
1981 |
Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence |
1981 |
According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa |
1982 |
48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB) |
1982 |
China adopts its constitution |
1982 |
Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp |
1983 |
"Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances |
1983 |
"Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances |
1983 |
David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0 |
1983 |
US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon |
1984 |
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers. |
1984 |
6th ACE Cable Awards: David Bowie: Serious Moonlight by Anthony Eaton and HBO |
1985 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London |
1985 |
French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
1985 |
President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser |
1986 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-7 |
1986 |
Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" premieres in NYC |
1987 |
Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) |
1988 |
Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash |
1988 |
Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1988 |
Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1990 |
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 |
1990 |
An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable |
1991 |
Judds final concert (Nashville) |
1991 |
Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years) |
1991 |
Pan American World Airways ceased operations |
1991 |
Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her |
1992 |
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. |
1993 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec) |
1993 |
Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53) |
1993 |
A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels. |
1994 |
"Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs |
1994 |
"Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 perfs |
1994 |
83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1) |
1994 |
Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1995 |
Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test |
1996 |
7th Billboard Music Awards: Alanis Morissette win |
1996 |
NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral |
1996 |
Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57 |
1997 |
"Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC |
1997 |
NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach |
1997 |
Nizar Hamdoon warns that Iraq will not allow oil to flow during a third six-month phase of the UN's oil-for-food sale until the UN approves an aid distribution plan |
1998 |
The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. |
2005 |
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage. |
2005 |
94th Davis Cup: Croatia beats Slovak Republic in Bratislava (3-2) |
2006 |
An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. |
2011 |
100th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Seville (3-1) |
2012 |
29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria |
2012 |
Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people |
2013 |
Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg's first openly gay Prime Minister |
2015 |
12 dead, five hurt, in Molotov cocktail attack on Egyptian nightclub |
2015 |
China pledges $60 billion in funding support to Africa |
2016 |
Iran Demands That Obama Allow US Sanctions to Expire |
2016 |
Cuba to Prohibit Naming of Monuments, Streets After Fidel |
2016 |
Castro to be laid to rest next to Cuban independence hero Marti |
2016 |
Grieving Brazilian town receives bodies of soccer plane-crash victims |
2017 |
South Korea, US kick off largest air exercise amid North Korean warnings |
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