Tuesday 4 August 1942

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

Famous Birthdays:

• Don S Davis: American actor and artist (Born 1942).
• Gunter Thielen
• Annette Roux: French businesswoman, an executive in the Beneteau family business, a sail and motor boat manufacturing company with production facilities in France and the United States.
• Don Davis: American actor and painter (d. 2008).
• David Russell: Lange; Prime Minister (Liberal) of New Zealand (1984-).

• David Lange: New Zealand lawyer and politician 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005).
• Cleon Jones: American baseball player.
• Peter Desberg: Hungarian-American psychologist and teacher at Cal-State Dominguez Hills; a musician, humorist, songwriter, and co-author with Betsy Rodden of "No Good Dogs" in 1982.

Famous Deaths:

• Alberto Franchetti: Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1942).

Facts:

• 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
• British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
• Colonel-General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad / welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
• German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed