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  • Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Dec 4, 1467
    Mamluks

    Timurbugha was the seventeenth Burji Sultan of Mamluk Egypt

    Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Dec 4, 1467

    Timurbugha was the seventeenth Burji Sultan of Mamluk Egypt, briefly ruling from late 1467 to early 1468 when he was deposed. He used the title of al-Malik al-Zāhir.




  • Madrid, Spain
    Sunday Dec 4, 1808
    Napoleon

    Napoleon entered Madrid

    Madrid, Spain
    Sunday Dec 4, 1808

    After clearing the last Spanish force guarding the capital at Somosierra, Napoleon entered Madrid on 4 December with 80,000 troops.




  • Korea
    Thursday Dec 4, 1884
    First Sino-Japanese War

    Gapsin Coup

    Korea
    Thursday Dec 4, 1884

    On December 4, 1884, with the help of the Japanese minister Takezoe Shinichiro who promised to mobilize Japanese legation guards to provide assistance, the reformers staged their coup under the guise of a banquet hosted by Hong Yeong-sik, the director of the General Postal Administration. The banquet was to celebrate the opening of the new national post office. King Gojong was expected to attend together with several foreign diplomats and high-ranking officials, most of whom were members of the pro-Chinese Sadaedang faction. Kim Ok-gyun and his comrades approached King Gojong falsely stating that Chinese troops had created a disturbance and escorted him to the small Gyoengu Palace, where they placed him in the custody of Japanese legation guards. They then proceeded to kill and wound several senior officials of the Sadaedang faction. Consequently, within three days, even before the reform measures were made public, the coup was suppressed by the Chinese troops who attacked and defeated the Japanese forces and restored power to the pro-Chinese Sadaedang faction.




  • Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
    Sunday Dec 4, 1892
    Francisco Franco

    Birth

    Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
    Sunday Dec 4, 1892

    Franco was born on 4 December 1892 at 108 Calle Frutos Saavedra in Ferrol, Galicia.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Dec 4, 1905
    Winston Churchill

    Balfour resigned as Prime Minister and King Edward VII

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Dec 4, 1905

    In December 1905, Balfour resigned as Prime Minister and King Edward VII invited the Liberal leader Henry Campbell-Bannerman to take his place.




  • Germany
    Thursday Dec 4, 1941
    Martin Bormann

    The Edict on Criminal Law Practices against Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories

    Germany
    Thursday Dec 4, 1941

    Knowing Hitler viewed Slavic people as inferior, Bormann opposed the introduction of German criminal law into the conquered eastern territories. He lobbied for and eventually achieved a strict separate penal code that implemented martial law for the Polish and Jewish inhabitants of these areas. The "Edict on Criminal Law Practices against Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories", promulgated 4 December 1941, permitted corporal punishment and death sentences for even the most trivial of offences.




  • Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Dec 4, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Second Cairo Conference

    Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Dec 4, 1943

    Churchill and Roosevelt held a second Cairo conference with Turkish president Ismet Inönü, but were unable to gain any commitment from Turkey to join the Allies.


  • Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 4, 1955
    Rosa Parks

    The Montgomery Bus boycott

    Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 4, 1955

    On Sunday, December 4, 1955, plans for the Montgomery bus boycott were announced at black churches in the area, and a front-page article in the Montgomery Advertiser helped spread the word. At a church rally that night, those attending agreed unanimously to continue the boycott until they were treated with the level of courtesy they expected, until black drivers were hired, and until seating in the middle of the bus was handled on a first-come basis.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 4, 1973
    1973 oil crisis

    Nixon named William E. Simon as the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office

    U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 4, 1973

    In 1973, Nixon named William E. Simon as the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office, a short-term organization created to coordinate the response to the embargo. Simon allocated states the same amount of domestic oil for 1974 that each had consumed in 1972, which worked for states whose populations were not increasing.


  • Federal Way, Washington, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 4, 1985
    Cinnabon

    Opening The First Cinnabon

    Federal Way, Washington, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 4, 1985

    The first Cinnabon opened on December 4, 1985, Federal Way, Washington at SeaTac Mall, now called The Commons at Federal Way. Cinnabon was an offshoot of the Seattle Based Restaurants Unlimited restaurant chain majority owned by Rich Komen with minority partner and CEO Ray Lindstrom at the helm.


  • Grozny, Chechnya, Russia
    Saturday Dec 4, 1999
    Second Chechen War

    Grozny was fully blockaded by Russian troops

    Grozny, Chechnya, Russia
    Saturday Dec 4, 1999

    On 4 December 1999, the commander of Russian forces in the North Caucasus, General Viktor Kazantsev, claimed that Grozny was fully blockaded by Russian troops.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 4, 2009
    Kobe Bryant

    One of the luckiest shots

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 4, 2009

    During the 2009–10 season, Bryant made six game-winning shots including a buzzer-beating, one-legged 3-pointer against the Miami Heat on December 4, 2009. Bryant considered the shot one of the luckiest he has made.


  • Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Dec 4, 2012
    Kaká

    The top Brazilian goalscorer in Champions League history

    Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Dec 4, 2012

    On 4 December 2012, after scoring in a 4–1 win against Ajax, Kaká became the top Brazilian goalscorer in Champions League history, with 28 goals.


  • Worldwide
    Friday Dec 4, 2015
    Uber

    Global technology and service alliance

    Worldwide
    Friday Dec 4, 2015

    Uber competitors Lyft (United States), Didi Kuaidi (China), Ola Cabs (India), and GrabTaxi (South-East Asia) (all of which have Softbank as an investor) announce a global technology and service alliance.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 4, 2015
    Uber

    Uber announces that it is raising $2.1 billion at a $62.5 billion valuation

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Friday Dec 4, 2015

    Uber announces that it is raising $2.1 billion at a $62.5 billion valuation.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 4, 2018
    Kevin Hart

    Hart was announced as the host of the 2019 Academy Awards

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 4, 2018

    On December 4, 2018, Hart was announced as the host of the 2019 Academy Awards.


  • Hawthornden
    Saturday Dec 4, 1649

    William Drummond's death

    Hawthornden
    Saturday Dec 4, 1649

    William Drummond, a Scottish poet, passed away at the age of 63.


  • Transsylvania
    Tuesday Dec 4, 1691

    Leopold I occupied Transsylvania

    Transsylvania
    Tuesday Dec 4, 1691

    Transsylvania was taken over by Emperor Leopold I.


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