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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1796 –French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1821 –Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
- 1924 –Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1936 –Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1984 –The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 1989 –Licence to Kill goes on general cinema release in the United Kingdom.
- 1991 –The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
- 1993 –A federal judge sentences LAPD 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.
- 2007 –NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched.
- 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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