What happend on 4th December

03.12
05.12
1998

The second module of the International Space Station, Unity, was launched.

1993

A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.

1992

President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.

1991

US airline Pan Am ends operations.

1991

Journalist Terry Anderson is released after a seven years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).

1982

The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.

1981

South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).

1979

The Hastie fire in Hull, England, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce Lee, who would go on to confess to being the UK's most prolific killer.

1978

Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).

1977

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johore, killing 100.