December 4th is the day in history

On December 4, 1870, the battle of Villiers took place - one of the key battles of the Franco-Prussian war. It began on November 29, and after it ended, the troops of the opposing sides retreated to their previous positions.

1918 — US President Woodrow Wilson sailed to Europe to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first time that a top US official has left the country.

1931 — The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) Decides to punish Amtorg officials who "spent $ 25,000 in favor of Sergei Eisenstein who had deserted from the USSR". It is about financing a film about the Mexican Revolution, which Eisenstein was going to shoot in Mexico.

1938 — The First Congress of the Carpathian Sich, a militarized organization created in Transcarpathia by members of the OUN, was held in Khust.

1948 — The State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the introduction of advanced technology into the national economy registered the invention of I. S. Bruk and B. I. Rameev with the number 10475 of a digital electronic computer.

1971 — The American company General Motors recalled 6,700,000 cars from sales that had a critical defect in engine design. This is the world's largest voluntary product self-promotion.

1979 — The Pionerskaya (now Lesnaya) station of the Kiev Metro was opened.

1987 — IBM began selling the first version of its multitasking OS/2 operating system developed for it by Microsoft.

1995 — Apple Records studio released the song “Free as a Bird” by The Beatles, recorded by Lennon back in 1977 after its collapse and transmitted by his widow Yoko Ono Paul McCartney in 1994.

1998 — successfully launched the space shuttle Endeavor (STS-88) with the second module of the International Space Station (Unity, Unity) on board.