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.
- 1909 –1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.
- 1942 –Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
- 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.
- 1977 –Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
- 1977 –Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
- 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” (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
- 1982 –The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
- 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.
- 1992 –Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
- 2005 –Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
- 2006 –An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km south of Tokyo.
- 2006 –Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.
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