August 4 Events |
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| August 4th, 2007 (August 04 2007) | Event | NASA s Phoenix spaceship is launched. | |
| August 4th, 2006 (August 04 2006) | Event | Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and was replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who was sworn in on 23 August. | |
| August 4th, 2005 (August 04 2005) | Event | Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean will be Canada s 27th - and first black - Governor General. | Paul Martin Quotes |
| August 4th, 2002 (August 04 2002) | Event | Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. | |
| August 4th, 1997 (August 04 1997) | Event | 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job. | |
| August 4th, 1995 (August 04 1995) | Event | Operation Storm begins in Croatia. | |
| August 4th, 1993 (August 04 1993) | Event | A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King s civil rights. | |
| August 4th, 1991 (August 04 1991) | Event | The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. | |
| August 4th, 1987 (August 04 1987) | Event | The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues. | |
| August 4th, 1984 (August 04 1984) | Event | The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. | |
| August 4th, 1977 (August 04 1977) | Event | US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| August 4th, 1975 (August 04 1975) | Event | The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. | |
| August 4th, 1970 (August 04 1970) | Event | The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. | |
| August 4th, 1969 (August 04 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. | Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| August 4th, 1964 (August 04 1964) | Event | American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. | |
| August 4th, 1964 (August 04 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy report coming attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. The destroyers open fire at what they believed were Vietnam People s Army torpedo boats, although subsequent work has raised doubts the targets were real. This engagement became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. | Ted Turner Quotes |
| August 4th, 1954 (August 04 1954) | Event | Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla. | |
| August 4th, 1947 (August 04 1947) | Event | The Supreme Court of Japan is established. | |
| August 4th, 1946 (August 04 1946) | Event | 1946 Dominican Republic earthquakeearthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 killed, 20,000 left homeless. | |
| August 4th, 1944 (August 04 1944) | Event | Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| August 4th, 1936 (August 04 1936) | Event | Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator. | |
| August 4th, 1924 (August 04 1924) | Event | The diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union were established. | |
| August 4th, 1916 (August 04 1916) | Event | World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany. | |
| August 4th, 1914 (August 04 1914) | Event | World War I: Germany invades Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality. | |
| August 4th, 1906 (August 04 1906) | Event | Central Railway Station, Sydney opens. | |
| August 4th, 1902 (August 04 1902) | Event | Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. | |
| August 4th, 1892 (August 04 1892) | Event | The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. | |
| August 4th, 1873 (August 04 1873) | Event | Indian Wars: Whilst 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; only one man on each side is killed). | |
| August 4th, 1854 (August 04 1854) | Event | The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. | |
| August 4th, 1824 (August 04 1824) | Event | Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks. | |
| August 4th, 1821 (August 04 1821) | Event | Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. | |
| August 4th, 1791 (August 04 1791) | Event | The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. | |
| August 4th, 1790 (August 04 1790) | Event | A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). | |
| August 4th, 1789 (August 04 1789) | Event | In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. | |
| August 4th, 1704 (August 04 1704) | Event | War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. | |
| August 4th, 1693 (August 04 1693) | Event | Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon s invention of Champagne. | |
| August 4th, 1578 (August 04 1578) | Event | Battle of Al Kasr al KebirMoroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. | |
| August 4th, 1265 (August 04 1265) | Event | Second Barons War: Battle of EveshamThe army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.) | |
