December 4 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Bank Day.
🌏 World Tunnel Day.
🌏 International Cheetah Day.
🌏 Wildlife Conservation Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇭 Thailand – Environment Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Computer Science Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Insurance Day.
🇵🇱 Poland – Miners’ Day.
🇮🇳 India – Navy Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Missile Troops and Artillery Day.
🇹🇴 Tonga – King Tupou I Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Manas Epic Day.
🇮🇪 Ireland – National Missing Persons Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 771 – Charlemagne became the sole ruler of the Frankish kingdom.
– 1639 – Jeremy Horrocks observed the orbit of Venus around the Sun.
– 1674 – Jacques Marquette opened a missionary station on Lake Michigan (later Chicago).
– 1676 – Battle of Lund.
– 1791 – The first issue of the weekly newspaper “Observer” was published in London.
– 1856 – Maktab-i Mulkiya was opened by Sultan Abdulmajid to train officials for the Ottoman state.
– 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro signed a peace treaty with Turkey, thus ending the 2-month-long First Balkan War.
– 1917 – By decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of Turkestan, the self-governing body elected that year – the Tashkent City Duma was dissolved.
– 1930 – Wolfgang Pauli hypothesized the existence of the neutrino.
– 1946 – The first Moskvich-400 car was assembled in Moscow.
– 1948 – A computer patent was issued in the USSR.
– 1954 – The UN decided to establish the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
– 1976 – Bokassa became king of the Central African Republic.
– 1979 – Theresa de Simone was assassinated in the United States.
– 1981 – The US intelligence community was established.
– 1996 – The Nuroniy Foundation was established.
-1998-The space shuttle Endeavour (STS-88) successfully launched with the second module of the International Space Station Unity on board.
– 2002 – Celebrations dedicated to the publication of the epic poem “Alpomish” were held in Bonn, Germany.
– 2005 – Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
– 2005 – The collapse of the Dolphin pool in the city of Chusovoya. 14 people died, 10 of whom were children.
– 2016 – Early elections for the presidency of the Republic of Uzbekistan were held.
