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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
- 1974 –A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
- 1975 –The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
- 1984 –The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 1987 –The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
- 1991 –The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
- 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”.
- 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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