What day is December 4? Historical events that took place on December 4
This Day in History December 4th. The most notable events that took place on December 4th range from historical, political to cultural and social events.
Domestic events taking place on December 4
December 4, 1939:Vo Hong Anh's birthday. A famous female professor and doctor in mathematics and physics in Vietnam. She was the first person to receive the Kovalevskaya Prize in 1988. She is the eldest daughter of General Vo Nguyen Giap.
December 4, 1953:The National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam unanimously passed the Land Reform Law.December 4, 1962:Inauguration of the Ma River pumping station in Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province. This is a large irrigation project, irrigating nearly 20,000 hectares of rice fields in Yen Dinh district and part of the rice fields in Thuan Hoa and Tho Xuan districts of Thanh Hoa province.
December 4, 1965:A special force unit of the Saigon - Cho Lon liberation army used bombs and machine guns to attack the Metropole hotel reserved for American jet pilots, killing 200 jet pilots.
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December 4, 1976:The Unified Railway officially opened after 30 years of interruption. The Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City railway is 1,730 km long.
December 4, 1999:Hoi An is recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage.
December 4, 2001:The President issued Order No. 15/2001/L-CTN promulgating Resolution 48/2001/QH10 ratifying the Vietnam - United States Trade Agreement.
International events taking place on December 4
December 4, 1866:Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter, was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. He was the first to explore the rules of pure abstract painting, removing all the rules of objects and shapes to "weave" harmonious works of color and music.
December 4, 1908:Albert Hershey's birthday. Alfred Day Hershey was an American geneticist and microbiologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969 for his work in creating exact copies of viruses and their genetic structure.
December 4, 1935:Charles Robert Richet died. He was a French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1913 for his research on the body's anaphylactic mechanism, which explains many sudden deaths throughout history.
December 4, 1956:The 'Million Dollar Quartet' recorded together. This was an event that shook the world music scene when the "Million Dollar Quartet", the four most famous singers in the world at that time, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, recorded together at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
December 4, 1998:Unity became the second module of the International Space Station ISS to fly into space, and the first to be assembled entirely by US engineers.
December 4, 2013:Traditional Japanese cuisine, also known as “Washoku” (Oa-sô-cư), has been listed as a world intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
