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List of December 4 Historical Events and Facts

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    1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon
  • 1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris
  • 1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held
  • 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
  • 1745 – Charles Edward Stewart’s army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising
  • 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell
  • 1791 – The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published
  • 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea
  • 1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
  • 1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain
  • 1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published
  • 1909 – 1st Grey Cup game is played
  • 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association
  • 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles
  • 1937 – The first issue of the children’s comic, The Dandy Comic, is published, one of the first to use speech balloons
  • 1943 – World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States
  • 1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations
  • 1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States
    1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time
  • 1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta
  • 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
  • 1975 – Suriname joins the United Nations
  • 1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100
  • 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California’s first female mayor
  • 1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee
  • 1980 – English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th
  • 1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei “homeland”
  • 1982 – The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution
  • 1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers
  • 1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations
  • 1992 – President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa
  • 1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels
  • 1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched
  • 2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands
  • 2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre

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