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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