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

  • 1532 –
    the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
  • 1693 –
    Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
  • 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.
  • 1789 –
    In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
  • 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.
  • 1892 –
    The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
  • 1914 –
    World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1947 –
    The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
  • 1965 –
    The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    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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