It happened on this day, December 4
Events:
1110 – The First Crusade occupies Sidon.
1858 – The British deposed Babur Shah II, the last ruler of the Banu Timur in India, and exiled him from the country.
1872 – The American ship Mary Celeste is found without its crew by the Canadian ship “De Gracia”. The ship had been abandoned nine days earlier but was only slightly damaged.
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sets sail for Europe to begin peace talks at Versailles regarding World War I.
1952 – The United Nations General Assembly examines Tunisia's relations with France.
1954 – Egypt's revolutionary court sentences six Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death and seven others to life in prison, accused of attempting to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser in what is known as the Manshiya Incident.
1977 – Protests in the Andalusia region demanding expanded autonomy, resulting in the assassination of Manuel José García Caparros.
1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its new constitution.
1983 – The United States bombs Syrian sites in Lebanon.
1985 – US National Security Advisor Robert MacFarlane resigns following the hijacking by US fighters of an Egyptian airliner carrying Palestinians en route to Tunisia.
1990 – The Soviet Union allows private property for the first time.
💥 Chadian rebel leader Idriss Déby declares himself interim president after the dismissal of President Hissène Habré.
1991 – The last American hostage in Lebanon, Terry Anderson, is released six and a half years after being kidnapped by Hezbollah.
2011 – Iranian military forces shoot down a US RQ-170 aircraft that had crossed Iran's eastern borders and was carrying out a mission for US intelligence.
2014 – The Tunisian House of Representatives elects Mohamed Al-Nasser as President of the Council and Abdel Fattah Moro as First Vice-President of the Council.
2017 – Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by Houthi fighters; During the battle that took place in Sanaa.
2021 – Dozens of people were killed in violent clashes between an Indian army riot unit and civilians in Nagaland.
✴️ The Cymru volcano erupts on the island of Java in Indonesia, killing more than 34 people and injuring 169 others.
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Births:
1590-Sultana Kösem, deputy of the sultanate and wife of Sultan Ahmed I of Greece
1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian.
1889 – Abdelhamid Ben Badis, founder of the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars.
1892 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain.
1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor.
1953 – Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian football goalkeeper.
1959 – Paul McGrath, Irish footballer.
1961 – Khaled Sami, Saudi actor.
1967 – Guillermo Amor, Spanish footballer.
1971 – Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Emirati politician.
1975 – Mohamed Ragab, Egyptian actor.
1980 – Hoda Sedqi, Moroccan actress.
1981 – Abdul Rahman Al-Mousa, Kuwaiti footballer.
1982 – Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer.
1992 – Jin, singer of the group BTS.
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Death:
749 – John of Damascus, Christian saint.
765 – Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq, the sixth imam of the Twelver Shiites.
1131 – Omar Khayyam, Persian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician.
1642 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cleric and politician.
1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1696 – Empress Mishu, Empress of Japan.
1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and anatomist.
1828 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1894 – Nicolas Naqqash, Lebanese Ottoman jurist, journalist and poet.
1935 – Charles Riche, French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1913.
(1945-Thomas MorganAmerican doctor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933
1993 – Frank Zappa, American singer.
2005 – Alfred Farag, Egyptian playwright.
2006 – Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, one of the hadith scholars in India.
** Abdul Karim Hussein Saud, Syrian poet and writer.
2011 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer.
** Abdul Haq Abu Al-Khabab is one of the founders of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria.
2012 – Talhat Hamdi, Syrian actor and director.
2015 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician.
2017 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, sixth president of North Yemen and then first president of the Republic of Yemen.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Memory of Saint John of Damascus.
⏪ Mining day in Poland.
⏪ Navy Day in India.
⏪ Barbara's Day according to the Western Christian calendar.
