About August 4
August 4, 2024 is the 217th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 178 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 4
- 367 –Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
- 1265 –Second Barons’ War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
- 1327 –First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
- 1578 –Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
- 1704 –War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
- 1790 –A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- 1791 –The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
- 1824 –The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
- 1892 –The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- 1902 –The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
- 1906 –Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
- 1936 –Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 1944 –The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1946 –An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
- 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.
- 1977 –US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- 1995 –Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
- 2005 –Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada’s 27th Governor General.
- 2007 –Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as “Maletinazo”.
- 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.
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