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70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman Empire.
1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (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.)
1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portugal. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Henry of Portugal, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon (person) invention of Champagne (wine).
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by England and Netherlands fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1789 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
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 Kos fought between Ottoman Empire and Greeks.
1854 - The Flag of Japan is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River (Montana); 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.
1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1914 - World War I: Germany invades Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.
1936 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Netherlands 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.
1954 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
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) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951) 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.
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of France intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1971 - The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft
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 consul and the Sweden charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1977 - President of the United States Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1991 - The Greece cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
1991 - The world's largest hamburger, weighing over 4 tons (about 3750 kg), is made at a county fair in Seymour, Wisconsin.
1993 - A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department Police 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.
2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
2005 - Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first Black Canadian — Governor General of Canada.
2006 - Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and was replaced by Anand Satyanand, who was sworn in on 23 August.

Births

1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (Habsburg) (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)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1821 - James White, cofunder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
1821 - Louis Vuitton, founder of Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1952)
1867 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (d. 1918)
1870 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
1884 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1888 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (d. 1965)
1890 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (d. 1957)
1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of the Church (Mormonism) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1994)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1902 - Wild Bill Hallahan, baseball player (d. 1981)
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), 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)
1915 - Warren Avis, founder of Avis car rentals (d. 2007)
1918 - Iceberg Slim, popular African-American author also known as Robert Beck (d. 1992)
1920 - Helen Thomas, American journalist
1921 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1923 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior shia clerics of the 21st century.
1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1937 - David Bedford, English musician
1938 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
1940 - Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)
1941 - Martin Jarvis, English actor
1942 - Don S. Davis, American actor
1942 - Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1942 - David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1944 - Doudou Ndoye‎, Senegalese lawyer and politician
1946 - Maureen Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
1948 - Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
1952 - Moya Brennan, Irish singer
1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1955 - Alberto Gonzales, American U.S. Attorney General
1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
1957 - Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
1958 - Mary Decker, American athlete
1958 - Kym Karath, American actress
1959 - Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002)
1959 - John Gormley, Irish politician
1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spainish politician
1961 - Barack Obama, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-IL), 2008 Presidential Candidate
1961 - Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1962 - Paul Reynolds (musician), British musician
1963 - Gary King, British DJ
1965 - Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician
1965 - Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
1966 - Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 - Timothy Adams, American actor
1967 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
1969 - Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
1969 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
1970 - John August, American screenwriter
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
1973 - Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1974 - Cristian González, Argentine footballer
1975 - Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1975 - Andy Hallett, American actor
1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
1978 - Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1981 - Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
1981 - Abigail Spencer, American actress
1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
1985 - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1985 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1989 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian Idol contestant
1992 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors
1992 - Tiffany Evans, American singer

Deaths

1060 - Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
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 - 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 - 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
1718 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 - Andrew Hamilton (lawyer), 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)
1844 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1938 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 - Peter Smith (cricketer), English cricketer (b. 1908)
1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1976 - Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop
1981 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
1982 - Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
1996 - Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
1997 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
2000 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2002 - Soham Murders, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
2004 - Stella Liebeck, known for her part in Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, a lawsuit in which Liebeck claimed medical costs and damages for having been burned by a cup of McDonald's coffee. This lawsuit is considered to be "the poster child of excessive lawsuits" by ABC News.
2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

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.
Fiji - Celebration of Life (Begins on the 21st of April and ends on 12 of September.)

Liturgical feasts Roman Catholicism

Saint Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
Saint Baumer, confessor
Saint Dominic, confessor
Saints Epiphanius and Isidore, martyrs
Saint Euphronius, bishop of Tours
Saint Ionius
Saint Irenaeus and companions, martyrs at Lyon
Saint John Vianney=Jean-Marie Vianney, parish priest, patron saint of priests
Saint Justus, bishop of Lyon, confessor Lyon
Saint Justinus, priest, martyr (sometimes confessor)
Saint Luanus/Lugid, abbot
Translation of saint Martin
Saint Nicomedes, bishop, martyr
Saint Peregrinus and companions, martyrs
Saint Tertullinus, priest, martyr
Translation of Saint Valentine of Passau, bishop of Passau, confessor
Saint Sigrada, widow
Advent of Saint Walburga, virgin

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

August 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BBC - Radio 4 - August 1945
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1964: Three civil rights activists found dead
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Kerrang! August 4, 2008
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The Q Daily / August 4, 2008
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