December 4th

December 4 is the 338th (three hundred and thirty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 339th in leap years. There are 27 days left to end the year.

Events

• 656: Near Basra is the Battle of the Camello between the caliph Ali and the widow of Mohammed, Aisha.
• 771: Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne the kingdom frank.
• 1110: In Palestine, in the framework of the First Crusade, the Crusaders conquer Sidon.
• 1248: Alfonso el Sabio, Prince of Castile, takes Alicante to the Arabs and baptizes his fortress as the Castle of Santa Barbara.
• 1328: In Nursia, Italy, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 in the seismological scale of Richter leaves a balance of 5000 dead.
• 1563: in Italy the Council of Trent ends.
• 1619: In Virginia they disembark 38 settlers from Berkeley Parish (Englaterra) and thank God. It is considered the first Thanksgiving Day.
• 1639: Jeremiah Horrocks makes the first observations on the transit of Venus.
• 1645: in Rome, Italy, a tornado (possibly an F4) leaves a balance of tens or hundreds of dead.
• 1674: On the shores of Lake Michigan, Father Jacques Marquette founded the Illiniwek mission, which would later be the city of Chicago.
• 1676: Battle of Lund: the Danish army (under the command of Cristián V of Denmark) faces the Swedish army (leadered by Simon Grundel-Helmfelt).
• 1791: the first copy of The ObserverThe first Sunday in history.
• 1838: French troops are disembarked in Mexico and take the port of Veracruz.
• 1860: In Mexico, the Freedom of Worship Act, issued from Veracruz, was decreed, where the government of President Benito Juárez resided.
• 1881: in Los Angeles (California) is first published Los Angeles Times.
• 1885: 24 Civil Governors resign in Spain.

• 1901: in the Santa Maria colony (possibly Santa María la Ribera, just outside Mexico City) the police perform a razia in a lesbian bar.
• 1912: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the child Cayetano Santos Godino (the Petiso Orejudo, 1896-1944) is arrested in the early morning, for the murder of his fourth and last victim, a three-year-old boy, on the day of yesterday.
• 1914: In Mexico City the Pact of Xochimilco was signed between Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, thus consolidating the alliance between the two revolutionary leaders.
• 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson embarked on sealing the Versailles Treaty of the First World War, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe during his term.
• 1931: in El Salvador, the Civic Board gives the presidency to Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, whose government will continue until 1944.
• 1942: In Warsaw—in the framework of the Jewish Holocaust—Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz are integrated into the Żegota organization.
• 1943: Second World War: The leader of Yugoslav resistance, Marshal Tito, proclaims the Yugoslav democratic government in exile.
• 1945: The United States Senate approves entry into the United Nations Organization by 65 votes in favour and 7 against it.
• 1956: during a recording by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Records in Memphis (Tennessee), Elvis Presley visits the studio and participates in a test with Perkins and Lewis. The four men were known as the Million Dollar Quartet, and that legendary recording was published in 1987.
• 1956: the National Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA) is established in Argentina.
• 1958: Benin is independent of France.
• 1959: A monkey returns to Earth safely after 53 miles in outer space.
• 1962: in a tunnel 245 meters underground, in the U9aa area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:00 (local time) United States detonates its Taunton atomic bomb, less than 20 kilotons. It is the bomb n. 299 of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1963: in two separate tunnels (1,58 km one from the other) to 263 meters deep, in the U3cr and U3ch areas of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 110 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:38 (local time), the United States simultaneously detonates its atomic bombs n.o 714 and 715: Barracuda 2 (with less than 20 kilotons) and Sar.
• 1967: Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnam troops back to Viet Cong near the Mekong River Delta.
• 1969: In Chicago, two members of the Black Panthers—Fred Hampton and Mark Clark—are shot during a trifle with 14 police officers.
• 1969: in Oahu, the surfer Greg Noll rides on a wave of 20 meters, beating all the records to the present day.
• 1971: the Pakistani Navy attacks India.
• 1971: in Montreux, Switzerland, the casino in which Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention played was set on fire. This fact gave rise to the famous song Smoke on the WaterDeep Purple, who were recording at that time in Montreux.
• 1977: Two million Andalusians go to the street in peaceful demonstration to demand first-rate autonomy, on an equal footing with the peoples of Spain who had begun the process towards autonomy during the Second Republic.
• 1977: Manuel José Caparrós, a young Malagueño, died as a result of a shooting by the police during the demonstration for autonomy in Andalusia, while he was driving a flag of Andalusia in his city.
• 1978: Mount Aloya (Galicia) is declared a natural park.
• 1982: The People ' s Republic of China adopts its constitution.
• 1985: UNESCO declares Santiago de Compostela as a World Heritage Site.
• 1986: at the Pozzeto restaurant in Bogotá, Colombia, the Colombian Vietnam veteran Campo Elías Delgado, armed with a revolver, murders several people; the police enters shooting with Uzi machine guns and kills him along with a dozen more customers.
• 1991: Pan Am, the main airline in the United States is declared bankrupt and ceases to operate.
• 1996: launch of the Mars Pathfinder, first mission to Mars including a rover.
• 1996: In the Paranal observatory, located in the Antofagasta region (north of Chile) and operated by ESO (European Southern Observatory), the largest telescopes in Latin America are installed.
• 2000: The TransMilenio transport system is inaugurated in Bogotá.
• 2005: In Venezuela, legislative elections are held, where the official party wins most seats to the National Assembly.
• 2010: the state of alarm is declared in Spain, for the first time in democracy, in order to face the aeroporary chaos caused by a strike of air traffic controllers.
• 2013: mass looting is produced in Córdoba, Argentina throughout the city. The police were on strike.
• 2020: In Italy, it is confirmed that the Napoli stadium is officially called " Diego Armando Maradona Stadium".
• 2020: The Life Goes On song of the popular South Korean band BTS becomes the first song in a language other than English to debut on the #1 post of the Billboard Hot 100.

Births

• 1512: Jerome Zurita, Spanish historian (f. 1580).
• 1585: John Cotton, puritan minister of New England (f. 1652).
• 1595: Jean Chapelain, French writer (f. 1674).
• 1660: André Campra, French composer (f. 1744).
• 1711: Barbara of Braganza, Queen Consort of Spain, wife of Fernando VI (f. 1758).
• 1763: Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón, diplomat and Spanish politician (f. 1824).
• 1795: Thomas Carlyle, British historian and thinker (f. 1881).
• 1798: Jules-Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33.th Prime Minister of his country (f. 1881).
• 1801: Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (f. 1893).
• 1812: Barbara Lamadrid, Spanish actress (f. 1893).
• 1817: Thomas Thomson, British botanist (f. 1878).
• 1827: Salvador Albacete, Spanish politician (f. 1890).
• 1829: Francisco Zarco, Mexican politician (f. 1869).
• 1830: Carlos Augusto Salaverry, Peruvian writer (f. 1891).
• 1835: Samuel Butler, British writer (f. 1902).
• 1839: Melesio Morales, Mexican composer (f. 1908).
• 1840: Caballo Loco, head of the acronym oglala (f. 1877).
• 1844: Augusto Arcimís, scientist and Spanish meteorologist (f. 1910).
• 1853: Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (f. 1932).
• 1861: Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (f. 1922).
• 1875: Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (f. 1926).
• 1880: Pedro Segura, Spanish clergy (f. 1957).
• 1881: Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (f. 1944).
• 1889: Lloyd Bacon, American actor and filmmaker (f. 1955).
• 1892: Francisco Franco, a Spanish military and dictator, popularly known as the General (f. 1975).
• 1893: Bárbaro Rivas, Venezuelan painter (f. 1967).
• 1898: Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (f. 1983).
• 1903: Cornell Woolrich, American writer (f. 1968).
• 1908: Alfred Day Hershey, American biologist (f. 1997).
• 1908: Carlos Izquierdo Edwards, a Chilean politician (f. 1980).
• 1909: Carlos Pío de Habsburg-Borbón, Austrian aristocrat and a charlist to the Spanish throne (f. 1953).
• 1910: Alex North, American composer (f. 1991).
• 1910: José María Vélaz, a Chilean Jesuit founder of Fe y Alegría (f. 1985).
• 1910: Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Indian politician.
• 1913: Matías Prats Cañete, a Spanish journalist (f. 2004).
• 1913: Mark Robson, Canadian filmmaker (f. 1978).
• 1920: Michael Bates, British actor (f. 1978).
• 1921: Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress (f. 2013).
• 1921: Paul Schaefer, a Nazi criminal and a German-born Chilean pedophile (f. 2010).
• 1922: Gérard Philipe, a French actor (f. 1959).
• 1927: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, a Spanish writer and anarchist (f. 2019).
• 1928: Hebe de Bonafini, an Argentine activist, president of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
• 1928: Alfonso Pícaro, Argentine actor (f. 2012).
• 1928: Fabio Zerpa, parapsychologist, ufologist and Argentine historian of Uruguayan origin (f. 2019).
• 1930: Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (f. 2013).
• 1931: Rodolfo Cholo Montironi, bandoneonist, orchestra director, arranger and Argentine tango composer.
• 1932: Roh Tae Woo, South Korean military and politician, South Korean President between 1988 and 1993 (f. 2021).
• 1933: Horst Buchholz, German actor (f. 2003).
• 1934: Victor French, American actor.
• 1936: John Giorno, American poet (f. 2019).
• 1938: Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano.
• 1940: JoAnn Hardin Morgan, American aerospace engineer
• 1941: Humberto Solás, filmmaker and Cuban producer (f. 2008).
• 1942: Chris Hillman, American singer, from The Byrds band.
• 1942: Gemma Jones, British actress.
• 1943: Alfonso Dulanto Rencoret, Chilean engineer and minister.
• 1944: Dennis Wilson, American musician, from the band The Beach Boys (f. 1983).
• 1945: Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut and neurologist
• 1946: Karina, Spanish singer.
• 1949: Jeff Bridges, American actor.
• 1949: José Luis Gioja, Argentine politician.
• 1949: Arturo Salah. former footballer and Chilean football leader.
• 1951: Julio Robles, Spanish bullfighter.
• 1951: Gary Rossington, American musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
• 1952: Susú Pecoraro, an Argentine actress.
• 1954: Tony Todd, American actor and producer.
• 1955: Cassandra Wilson, American jazz singer and composer
• 1957: Raúl Boesel, a Brazilian motor vehicle pilot.
• 1957: Eric S. Raymond, American computer.
• 1957: David Rivas, economist, teacher and Spanish writer.
• 1957: Greg Child, a mountaineer and an Australian writer.
• 1958: Luis García Montero, Spanish poet and essayist.
• 1959: Pipo Cipolatti, singer, musician, composer and Argentine guitarist.
• 1959: Paul McGrath, Irish footballer.
• 1960: Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete.
• 1962: Alexander Litvinenko, Russian military and spy (f. 2006)
• 1962: Kevin Richardson, British footballer.
• 1963: Sergéi Bubka, Ukrainian athlete.
• 1964: Sertab Erener, Turkish singer.
• 1964: Marisa Tomei, American actress.
• 1965: Alex of the Church, Spanish filmmaker.
• 1965: Pedro Filipuzzi, Researcher, writer, Simon Wiesenthal Lationamérica Center.
• 1967: Guillermo Amor, Spanish footballer.
• 1967: Jesús García Castilla, Spanish drummer, of the band Platero and You.
• 1969: Jay-Z, American rapper.
• 1970: Kevin Sussman, American actor.
• 1970: Sylvester Terkay, American professional fighter.
• 1972: Tamara Castro, Argentine folklore singer (f. 2006).
• 1973: Tyra Banks, American model.
• 1973: Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ.
• 1978: Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer.
• 1979: Jay DeMerit, American footballer.
• 1980: Gustavo Chacín, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1981: Ezequiel Castaño, an Argentine actor.
• 1981: Florence de Saracho, Mexican actress.
• 1982: Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer.
• 1982: Ho-Pin Tung, Chinese-Dutch Automobile Pilot.
• 1984: Brooke Adams, model, dancer and professional American fighter.
• 1984: Lindsay Felton, American actress.
• 1984: Francisco Puelles, Chilean circus actor and artist.
• 1984: Fernando Marqués, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player.
• 1985: Martin Rodriguez, Argentinian rugby player.
• 1986: Martell Webster, American basketball player.
• 1988: Mario Maurer, singer, model and Thai actor.
• 1990: Angel Nesbitt, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1990: Skye Stracke, Australian model.
• 1992: Jin, South Korean singer, member of the BTS group.
• 1992: Alessandro De Vena, Italian footballer.
• 1994: Gregory Wüthrich, Swiss footballer.
• 1995: Uche Agbo, Nigerian footballer.
• 1996: Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer.
• 2002: Ahmed Hafnaoui, Tunisian swimmer.

Deaths

• 1131: Omar Jayyam, mathematician, astronomer and Iranian poet (n. 1048).
• 1270: Theobaldo II, king Navarre (n. 1238).
• 1594: Fray Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish religious (n. 1512).
• 1642: Cardinal Richelieu, religious, aristocrat and French politician (n. 1585).
• 1643: Jorge de Bande, industrial luxemburgués (n. 1588).
• 1679: Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher (n. 1588).
• 1696: Meisho, Japanese Empress (n. 1624).
• 1798: Luigi Galvani, Italian scientist and physician (n. 1737).
• 1836: Richard Westall, British painter (f. 1765).
• 1868: Cúchares (Francisco Arjona Herrera), Spanish bullfighter (n. 1818).
• 1893: Heinrich Göbel, German inventor (n. 1818).
• 1893: John Tyndall, Irish physicist (n. 1820).
• 1900: Aquileo Parra, was a military man, businessman and Colombian politician. Member of the Liberal Party, held the presidency of the Republic between 1876 and 1878. (n. 1825).
• 1907: Luis Sáenz Peña, Argentine President (n. 1822).
• 1918: Marie Bonnevial, a French activist (n. 1841).
• 1924: Cipriano Castro, Venezuelan president between 1899 and 1908 (n. 1858).
• 1926: Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian realistic painter (n. 1861).
• 1932: Gustav Meyrink, Austrian writer (n. 1868).
• 1935: Tuffy Neugen, Brazilian footballer (n. 1898).
• 1935: Charles Robert Richet, French doctor, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1913 (n. 1850).
• 1941: Amalia Guglielminetti, Italian poet (n. 1881).
• 1943: Galina Petrova, Soviet military physician and Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1920).
• 1945: Thomas Hunt Morgan, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933 (n. 1866).
• 1945: Julio Martínez Male, acronym engineer and Spanish astronomer (n. 1893).
• 1946: María de la Paz de Borbón, Infanta de España y Princesa de Baviera (n. 1862).
• 1951: Pedro Salinas, Spanish poet and playwright (n. 1891).
• 1964: Humberto Zarrilli, Uruguayan poet and pedagogue (f. 1898).
• 1965: Franz Völker, German tenor (n. 1899).
• 1967: Bert Lahr, American actor (n. 1895).
• 1971: Georg von Rauch, German anarchist (f. 1947).
• 1976: Tommy Bolin, American guitarist, of the Deep Purple band (n. 1951).
• 1976: Benjamin Britten, British composer and pianist (n. 1913).
• 1976: Pepe Marchena, Spanish flamenco singer (n. 1903).
• 1977: Manuel José García Caparrós, activist of the Workers' Commissions, killed during the demonstration of Andalusian autonomy on December 4th (n. 1960).
• 1980: Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish athlete (n. 1911).
• 1986: Campo Elías Delgado, Colombian murderer, Vietnam veteran (n. 1934).
• 1987: Rouben Mamoulian, American filmmaker (n. 1897).
• 1993: Frank Zappa, American musician and filmmaker (n. 1940).
• 1994: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (n. 1929).
• 1996: José Antonio González Caviedes, Spanish politician (n. 1938).
• 1999: Nélida Roca, actress and vedette argentina (n. 1929).
• 2004: Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (n. 1943).
• 2000: Julián Infante, Spanish guitarist, from the bands Tequila and Los Rodríguez (n. 1957).
• 2005: Débora Arango, Colombian painter (n. 1907).
• 2005: Gloria Lasso, Franco-Spanish singer (n. 1922).
• 2007: José Esteban Lasala, director and Spanish writer (n. 1935).
• 2007: Pimp C, American rapper (n. 1973).
• 2008: Roberto Segura, Spanish historietist (n. 1927).
• 2009: Eddie Fatu, Samoano professional fighter (n. 1973).
• 2009: Jordi Solé Tura, politician and Spanish jurist (n. 1930).
• 2010: Xabier Lete, Spanish poet and singer (n. 1944).
• 2011: Socrates, Brazilian footballer (n. 1954).
• 2012: Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (n. 1971).
• 2015: Robert Loggia, American actor (n. 1930).
• 2017: Ali Abdullah Saleh, political and military Yemeni, president of Yemen between 1990 and 2012 (n. 1942).

Celebrations

• International Banking Day
• El SalvadorEl Salvador: Fire Day.
• Mexico Mexico: Day of the Worker.
• GuatemalaGuatemala: Toy Marathon begins.
• Uruguay Uruguay: Publicist Day.
• SpainSpain: Day of the Flag of Andalusia.
• Tonga: Anniversary of the Coronation of King George Tupou I

Catholic saints list

• San Juan Damasceno, priest and doctor of the Church (c. 750).
• Saint Barbara of Nicomedia, virgin and martyr (s. III/IV).
• St. Heracles of Alexandria, Bishop (247/249).
• San Melecio de Sebastopol, bishop (s. IV).
• Saint Felix of Bologna, bishop (431/432).
• Saint Apro de Vienne, priest (s. VII).
• St Sigiramnio de Longoret, pilgrim and abad (s. VII).
• Saint Adrehildis or Ada de Le Mans, Abbey (c. 692).
• San Sola de Ellwangen, presbyter and eremite (794).
• St John the Taumaturgo, bishop (s. IX).
• Saint Annon of Cologne, Bishop (1075).
• Saint Osmund of Salisbury, Bishop (1099).
• Saint Bernard of Parma, Bishop (1133).
• Blessed Pedro Pectinario, religious (1289).
• Blessed Francisco Gálvez, Jerome of Angelis and Simon Yempo, martyrs (c. 1622/1623).
• beato Adolfo Kolping, priest (1865).
• San Juan Calabria, priest (1954).