August 4

This page lists news articles and events for August 4.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Recurring Events

• Civic Holiday (Canada)
• Saint Sithney's Day - patron saint of mad dogs
• Saint John Vianney's Day - (Jean-Marie Vianney), parish priest, patron saint of priests

One-time Events/News

• 70:
  • Event: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
• 367:
  • Event: Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his 8-year-old son Gratian as his co-ruler.
• 1060:
  • Event: Henry I of France died, his Queen Anne of Kiev serves as Regent for the next 6 years
• 1265:
  • Event: Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham
• 1578:
  • Event: Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – Moroccans defeat Portuguese, creating succession crisis in Portugal. Thomas Stucley, English adventurer and likely illegitimate son of Henry VIII dies in battle.
• 1704:
  • Event: War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet
• 1789:
  • Event: French Revolution: National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism
• 1790:
  • Event: Revenue Cutter Service created
• 1791:
  • Event: Treaty of Sistova ends the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
• 1873:
  • Event: Indian Wars: First battle between the 7th Cavalry and the Sioux - only one man on each side dies. Near Tongue River in Montana.
• 1875:
  • Event: Hans Christian Andersen died
• 1892:
  • Event: Lizzie Borden's family found.
• 1914:
  • Event: World War I: Germany invades Belgium. United Kingdom declares war on Germany. United States declares neutrality.
• 1936:
  • Event: 4th of August Regime in Greece
• 1940:
  • Event: World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland via Abyssinia
• 1944
  • Event: The Holocaust - Gestapo captures Anne Frank and her family
• 1946:
  • Event: 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake: magnitude 8.0, about 20,000 are left homeless.
• 1961:
  • Event: Barack Obama born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 1964:
  • Event: American civil rights movement: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
• 1964:
  • Event: Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident (possibly a False Flag Operation)
• 1969:
  • Event: Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger and Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations that eventually fail.
• 1974:
  • Event: Italicus Express bombing 1974 at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy
• 1975:
  • Event: Japanese Red Army takes over 50 hostages at embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1991:
  • Event: Cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa.
• 1993:
  • Event: LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell sentencded 30 months in prison for attacking Rodney King.
• 1995:
  • Event: Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
• 1997:
  • Event: Jeanne Calment, world's oldest human on record, dies (b. 1875)
• 2002:
  • Event: Soham murders of 10-year-olds in Cambridgeshire.
• 2006:
  • Event: 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers carried out by Sri Lanka
• 2007:
  • Event: NASA's Phoenix (spacecraft) launched.
• 2009:
  • News: California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs