About December 4
December 4, 2024 is the 339th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 56 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 4
- 1110 –First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon.
- 1619 –38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
- 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.
- 1867 –Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
- 1881 –The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
- 1893 –First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Police officers is killed in battle by an estimated 3,000 Ndebele on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
- 1909 –The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1939 –World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by GS U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
- 1954 –The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States
- 1958 –Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1971 –The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- 1982 –The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
- 1984 –Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
- 1991 –Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
- 1991 –Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
- 1991 –Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
- 1993 –A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
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