Sunday, December 04, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 4
1991:After being held hostage by Hezbollah militants for almost seven years during the bitter Lebanese civil war, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is finally released by his captors in Beirut.

1978: Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor, succeeding George Moscone, who had been murdered a week earlier. Feinstein will be elected in her own right in November 1979.

1995: The first members of a NATO force, ultimately composed of 60,000 troops, arrive in Bosnia and Croatia for a peacekeeping mission.
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