About December 4
December 4, 2025 is the 338th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 75 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 4
- 771 –Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
- 1867 –Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
- 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.
- 1918 –U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
- 1921 –The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
- 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: U.S. President Franklin D. 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 (the UN is established on October 24, 1945).
- 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 United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- 1978 –Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California’s first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).
- 1981 –South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei “homeland” (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
- 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 –Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
- 1993 –A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
- 2005 –Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
- 2006 –Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.
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