On This Day 4 December
2005
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage
1982
China adopts its constitution
1978
Dutch World War II war criminal Pieter Nicolaas Menten freed. Menten was involved in the massacre of Polish professors in Lviv and robbery of their property.
1829
Britain outlaws “suttee” in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre)
1798
British prime minister William Pitt the Younger announces the introduction of income tax
1534
Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
1259
Treaty of Paris is signed between English King Henry III & French King Louis IX
1131
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyam dies in Nishapur, Iran
2015
A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
2014
Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
2005
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
1984
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
1977
Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
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.
1865
North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within 2 weeks
1791
The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
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