December 4th, 2008

Today in History

1992:
President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.

1991:
1991 - US airline Pan Am ends operations.

1977:
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johore, killing 100.

1864:
At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Gulf of Mexico (Union forces did suffer more than three times the casualties as the Confederates, however).

1563:
The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).