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August 4
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August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (217th in
leap years), with 149 days remaining.
Events
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1265 - The
Battle of Evesham of the
Second Barons' War is fought in
Worcestershire, with the army of future King
Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of
chivalry in
England.
*
1578 -
Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King
Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle,
Henry of Portugal Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
*
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to
Dom Perignon (person) Dom Perignon's invention of
Champagne (beverage) Champagne.
*
1704 - During the
War of the Spanish Succession an Anglo-Dutch force seizes the rock of
Gibraltar.
*
1735 -
Freedom of the press:
New York Weekly Journal writer
John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious
libel against the royal governor of
New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
*
1753 -
George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a
Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of
Freemasonry.
*
1789 - In
France members of the
National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end
feudalism and abandon their privileges
*
1782 -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is married to Constanze Weber.
*
1790 - A newly passed
tariff act creates the ''
Revenue Cutter Service'' (the forerunner of the
United States Coast Guard).
*
1821 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the ''
Saturday Evening Post'' for the first time as a weekly
newspaper.
*
1824 -
Battle of Cos fought between
Ottoman Empire Turks and
Greeks.
*
1854 - The
Flag of Japan Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from
Japanese ships.
*
1873 -
Indian Wars: While protecting a
railroad survey party in
Montana, the
United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel
George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the
Sioux (near the
Tongue River (Montana) Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
*
1892 - The family of
Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their
Fall River, Massachusetts home.
*
1902 -
Greenwich foot tunnel under the River
Thames opens.
*
1914 -
World War I:
Germany invaded
Belgium; in response, the
United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The
United States proclaims neutrality.
*
1944 -
Holocaust: A tip from a
Netherlands Dutch informer leads the
Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an
Amsterdam warehouse where they find
Jewish diarist
Anne Frank and her family.
*
1947 - The
Supreme Court of Japan is established.
*
1964 -
American civil rights movement:
Civil rights workers
Michael Schwerner,
Andrew Goodman and
James Chaney are found dead in
Mississippi after disappearing on
June 21.
*1964 -
Vietnam War:
United States destroyers
USS Maddox (DD-731) USS ''Maddox'' and
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) USS ''C. Turner Joy'' are allegedly attacked in the
Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) USS ''Ticonderoga'' sinks two, possibly three
North Vietnamese gunboats. Years later, the claim of NVA attack was revealed to be false.
*
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of
France French intermediary
Jean Sainteny in
Paris, US representative
Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative
Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
*
1975 - The
Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. The hostages included the
United States U.S. consul and the
Sweden Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to
Libya.
*
1977 - US President
Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the
United States Department of Energy.
*
1983 -
Thomas Sankara becomes president of
Upper Volta.
*1983 -
New York Yankees New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a
seagull during a
baseball game and is charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His
manager (baseball) manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the
List of baseball jargon cutoff man."
*
1984 - The
African republic
Upper Volta changes its name to
Burkina Faso.
*
1985 - In one of the most exciting days in sports,
Tom Seaver of the
Chicago White Sox wins his
300 win club 300th game and
Rod Carew of the
California Angels picks up his
3000 hits 3000th hit. It marks the only day in which two men reach baseball's three biggest milestones on the same day.
*
1987 - The
Federal Communications Commission rescinds the
Fairness Doctrine which had required
radio and
television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
*
1991 - The
Greece Greek cruise ship ''
Oceanos'' sinks off the coast of
South Africa.
*
1993 - A federal judge sentences
Los Angeles Police Department LAPD officers
Stacey Koon and
Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist
Rodney King's
civil rights.
*
1995 -
Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
*
1997 - 185,000
Teamsters union
United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
*
2005 -
Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that
Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first
Black Canadian black —
Governor General of Canada Governor General.
Births
*
1222 -
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d.
1262)
*
1290 - Duke
Leopold I of Austria (Habsburg) Leopold I of Austria (d.
1326)
*
1521 -
Pope Urban VII, (d.
1590)
*
1604 -
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d.
1676)
*
1701 -
Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d.
1757)
*
1719 -
Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d.
1767)
*
1721 -
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d.
1803)
*
1792 -
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d.
1822)
*
1805 -
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d.
1865)
*
1834 -
John Venn, English mathematician (d.
1923)
*
1840 -
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (d.
1902)
*
1859 -
Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1952)
*
1870 - Sir
Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d.
1950)
*
1899 -
Ezra Taft Benson, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1994)
*
1900 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d.
2002)
*
1901 -
Louis Armstrong, American musician (d.
1971)
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1904 -
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d.
1969)
*
1906 -
Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d.
1973)
*
1908 -
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d.
1994)
*
1909 -
Glenn Cunningham (runner) Glenn Cunningham, runner (d.
1988)
*
1910 -
William Schuman, American composer (d.
1992)
*
1912 -
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d.
1999)
* 1912 -
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
*
1913 -
Robert Hayden, American poet (d.
1980)
*
1921 -
Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d.
2000)
*
1923 -
Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
*
1927 -
Jess Thomas, American tenor (d.
1993)
*
1929 -
Yasser Arafat, Palestine leader (d.
2004)
* 1929 -
Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d.
1987)
*
1936 -
Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
*
1937 -
David Bedford, English musician
*
1940 -
Timi Yuro, American singer (d.
2004)
*
1942 -
David Lange,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.
2005)
*
1943 -
Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
*
1944 -
Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
*
1946 -
Maureen Starkey, one-time wife of Beatle,
Ringo Starr (d.
1994)
*
1947 -
Klaus Schulze, German composer
*
1948 -
Johnny Grubb, US baseball player
*
1952 -
Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
*
1955 -
Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
*
1957 -
John Wark, Scottish footballer
*
1958 -
Mary Decker, American athlete
*
1960 -
Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
**
José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero,
Prime Minister of Spain
*
1961 -
Barack Obama, American politician
*
1962 -
Roger Clemens, American baseball player
*
1967 -
Mike Marsh, American athlete
*
1968 -
Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
* 1968 -
Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
*
1969 -
Troy O'Leary, American Baseball player
*
1970 -
Michael DeLuise, American actor
*
1971 -
Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
*
1972 -
Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
*
1974 -
Cristian González, Argentine footballer
*
1977 -
Luis Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
*
1978 -
Kurt Busch, American race car driver
*
1985 -
Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
*
1992 -
Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors
Deaths
*
1060 - King
Henry I of France (b.
1008)
*
1265 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
**
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b.
1223)
**
Henry de Montfort (b.
1238)
**
Peter de Montfort
**
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b.
1208)
*
1306 - King
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b.
1289)
*
1338 -
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of
Edward I of England (b.
1300)
*
1526 -
Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b.
1476)
*
1578 - King
Sebastian of Portugal (b.
1554)
*1578 -
Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
*
1598 -
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b.
1520)
*
1612 -
Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b.
1549)
*
1639 -
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
*
1727 -
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b.
1647)
*
1741 -
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer) Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
*
1784 -
Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b.
1706)
*
1792 -
John Burgoyne, British general (b.
1723)
*
1795 -
Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b.
1711)
*
1875 -
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b.
1805)
*
1938 -
Pearl White, American actress (b.
1889)
*
1957 -
Washington LuÃs Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b.
1869)
*
1976 -
Roy Herbert Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b.
1894)
*
1977 -
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1889)
*
1981 -
Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b.
1901)
*
1997 -
Jeanne Calment, the oldest ever human.
*
1998 -
Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b.
1930)
*
1999 -
Victor Mature, American actor (b.
1915)
*
2001 -
Lorenzo Music, American actor, writer, and producer (b.
1937)
*
2003 -
Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1916)
Holidays and observances
*
Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholicism -
Jean Vianney Saint John Vianney – Patron Saint of Priests
*
Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution
*
Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
*
El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
*
Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
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On This Day in Canada
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August 3 -
August 5 -
July 4 -
September 4 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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