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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1693 –Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
- 1789 –In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
- 1791 –The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
- 1796 –French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1824 –The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
- 1964 –Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1965 –The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
- 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.
- 1977 –US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- 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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