About August 4
August 4, 2025 is the 216th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 197 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 4
- 70 –The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- 367 –Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
- 1327 –First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
- 1532 –the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
- 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.
- 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 –The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
- 1854 –The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
- 1863 –Matica slovenská, Slovakia’s public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1974 –A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
- 1989 –Licence to Kill goes on general cinema release in the United Kingdom.
- 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).
- 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”.
- 2007 –NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched.
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