August 4

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 4. From 1900 until now. August 4 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Barack Obama (1961), Meghan Markle (1981) and Cole Sprouse (1992). Several movies were released around August 4 over the years, such as The Help in 2011 directed by Tate Taylor and Notorious in 1946 directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
But much more happened on August 4 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re
El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution
St. Luanus/Lugid
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 3 saints: St. Saint John Vianney, the patron saint of priests
St. Dominic
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2018 Caracas drone explosions: Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro survives what he claims is an assassination attempt involving drones while speaking at a military event in Caracas. Eight people are injured. (BBC)
2017 Danish royal consorts: Denmark's Prince Henrik announces he won't be buried next to Queen Margrethe II in the Roskilde Cathedral where Danish royals have been buried since 1559. The 83-year-old, French-born Henrik has been dissatisfied with his non-equal role as Prince consort. The 77-year old Margrethe, who had a specially designed sarcophagus made for the couple, accepts Henrik's decision, according to a royal house spokeswoman. (AP via ABC News)
2016 Syrian Civil War: At least 40 government air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo city and nearby towns, including on a camp for displaced people in Atareb, south-west of Aleppo, killing at least two people. (The National)Jan Egeland, an adviser to the UN’s special envoy to Syria, says that there were 44 attacks on hospitals, clinics and health posts around Syria in July alone. (The National)
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen (2015-present): Roughly 1,500 United Arab Emirates Army troops deploy with tanks and heavy equipment to the strategic southern Yemeni city of Aden which has been the scene of heavy fighting between Houthi militants and fighters loyal to the previous regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Previous attempts by the Saudi Arabian Army and Royal Saudi Air Force to defeat the Houthis were unsuccessful. (AFP via Yahoo)
2014 Ukrainian government forces recapture control of Yasynuvata from pro-Russian insurgents; government troops have now all but encircled the rebels' second-largest stronghold of Luhansk, and rebels declared a "state of siege" in Donetsk. (Reuters)
2013 Worldwide embassy closings: The United States closes 22 embassies in the Middle East and North Africa due to intelligence of an Al-Qaeda attack. (CNN)Canada closes its embassy in Bangladesh amid terror threats. (Toronto Sun)Britain, France and Germany close their embassy in Yemen amid terror threats. (BBC)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: A senior intelligence officer in Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, Payenda Khan, is killed in a bombing in Kunduz Province. (CNN)
2010 California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
2009 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardons two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry earlier in the year, after former U.S. President Bill Clinton meets with Kim in North Korea.
2008 U.S. conservative political commentator Robert Novak retires after 45 years. The only reason for retirement was a previously discovered brain tumour. Novak is also involved in the CIA leak scandal. (CBS News)
2007 At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA launches a Delta II rocket carrying the Mars Phoenix lander to explore the north of Mars.
2006 A massacre, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2005 Ayman al-Zawahri, a leader of Al-Qaeda, has issued a televised statement blaming Tony Blair and his government's foreign policy for the July 2005 London bombings. (BBC)
2004 The National Institutes of Health decides not to override drug patents to allow generic production of anti-AIDS drug Norvir in the United States, despite claims of price gouging by patients' groups and some members of Congress. (ABC)
2003 Construction workers of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China accidentally dig out five Japanese mustard gas bombs from the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Two of the bombs are damaged, and the gas poisons 43 (one died 19 days later). Japan a week later accepts responsibility and sends doctors and compensation to China.
2002 Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
2001 The Seattle-based Windy Bay fishing vessel strikes a rock and sinks in Prince William Sound, 65km southwest of Valdez, Alaska. 133,000 litres of diesel fuel creates a sheen covering 10 square km, with about 36,800 litres recovered.
1998 Rebel forces revolt against President Laurent Kabila's government in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, starting the Second Congo War; 3,900,000 people are killed before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II. Accusations of Rwanda backing them up have been made with Rwanda denying it. (BBC)
1997 Keenan Ivory Wayan Show, premieres on Fox TV
1996 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
1995 Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees
1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo
1991 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq.
1988 US Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II.
1987 At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
1985 Dreamgirls closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as Premier of Italy
1982 New York Mets' Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago Cubs' day game, then singles for Montreal Expos in Philadelphia night game. (He was traded in between).
1981 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission
1980 John andYoko begin recording Double Fantasy
1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins
1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy
1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
1971 US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft.
1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
1969 Willie Stargell is first to hit a home run outside of Dodger Stadium.
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
1967 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
1964 North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1961 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
1960 Rocket propelled US Air Force research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH.
1959 Billy Barnes Revue opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 performances
1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
1957 Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record) these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.
1956 Elvis Presley releases Hound Dog
1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
1948 Five-day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax.
1947 The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season.
1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
1943 British Premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1941 Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
1940 Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1939 Neville Chamberlain dismisses Parliament until October 3.
1938 Lord Runciman arrives in Prague to act as Neville Chamberlain's special envoy in the continuing Sudetenland disturbances.
1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself Dictator of Greece
1934 New York Giants' player Mel Ott sets record of six runs in game and beats Philadelphia Phillies 21-4.
1930 Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
1929 Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada is opened.
1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms
1924 Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1922 Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
1919 Romanian army occupies Budapest.
1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers
1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1914 German army shoots Belgian priests / burns down village of Battice
1913 In China, the province of Chungking declares independence Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
1912 United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS ''Annapolis'' in Nicaragua to support the conservative government at its request.
1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
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