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.
- 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.
- 1532 –the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
- 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).
- 1796 –French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1873 –Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
- 1902 –The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
- 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.
- 1947 –The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- 1977 –US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- 1984 –The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 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.
- 2005 –Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada’s 27th Governor General.
- 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.
- 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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