Notable Historical Events on August 4th
August 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1181 |
Supernova seen in Cassiopia |
1265 |
Battle of Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort the younger |
1347 |
English troops conquer Ft Calais |
1351 |
Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English |
1558 |
1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) |
1578 |
Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed |
1598 |
London's head office of Hanze closed |
1636 |
Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil |
1666 |
Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die |
1666 |
Sea battle between Netherlands & England |
1693 |
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne |
1695 |
French garrison of surrenders to Willem III |
1704 |
War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar |
1730 |
Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England |
1735 |
Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press) |
1753 |
George Washington becomes a master mason |
1777 |
Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus |
1789 |
French National Meeting ending feudal system |
1790 |
US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service |
1791 |
The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. |
1821 |
1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) |
1821 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen and Russian polar expedition return to Kronshtadt after becoming 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica |
1824 |
Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks. |
1830 |
Plans for city of Chicago laid out |
1854 |
The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. |
1855 |
John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" |
1862 |
US government collects its 1st income tax |
1864 |
Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas |
1870 |
British Red Cross Society forms |
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). |
1879 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris |
1881 |
122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record) |
1886 |
Colombia adopts constitution |
1892 |
Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam and the Rhine |
1892 |
Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass on two counts of murder |
1897 |
Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia |
1900 |
An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion |
1902 |
The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. |
1903 |
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X |
1909 |
Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment |
1910 |
A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie |
1914 |
WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice |
1914 |
German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast |
1914 |
WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
1914 |
WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war |
1914 |
WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany |
1914 |
US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI |
1916 |
Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million |
1916 |
The Turks attack the British line at Romani in the northern Sinai (WWI) |
1917 |
Pravda calls for the killing of all capitalists, priests & officers |
1922 |
Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team |
1925 |
1st Dutch Colijn government forms |
1925 |
US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation |
1929 |
60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich |
1929 |
Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6 |
1929 |
Jones Beach in NY opens |
1930 |
Child labor laws established in Belgium |
1934 |
NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4 |
1936 |
Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece |
1941 |
Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) |
1941 |
Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US |
1942 |
1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz |
1942 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
1942 |
Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev |
1942 |
German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
1943 |
British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada |
1943 |
Russian units reach suburbs of Orel |
1943 |
USAAF bombs Germans in Troina |
1944 |
Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified |
1944 |
British 8th Army reaches suburbs of Florence, Italy |
1945 |
Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season |
1945 |
Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
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. |
1948 |
5 day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America's poll tax |
1949 |
NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association |
1952 |
Gambling boss Theodore Roe is murdered by the crew of Sam Giancana |
1953 |
Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago |
1953 |
Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0 |
1954 |
Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning |
1954 |
The Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla. |
1955 |
Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters |
1956 |
1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) |
1956 |
Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" |
1956 |
Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands |
1958 |
Dumont TV Network crumbles |
1959 |
"Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs |
1960 |
Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH |
1961 |
108°F, Spokane, WA |
1961 |
28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000) |
1962 |
Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
1964 |
Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam |
1964 |
North Vietnam torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin |
1965 |
Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand |
1967 |
34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) |
1967 |
British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air |
1967 |
Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open |
1968 |
WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium |
1970 |
Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness |
1971 |
US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft |
1972 |
Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace |
1974 |
Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor |
1974 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
1975 |
Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
US President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Italian government of Cossiga begins |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
-11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean |
1980 |
John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" |
1980 |
Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills |
1981 |
Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission |
1981 |
Oliver North is assigned to White House duty |
1982 |
NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game |
1983 |
Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy |
1983 |
France performs nuclear test |
1983 |
Revolution in Burkina Faso |
1983 |
While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull |
1984 |
Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics |
1984 |
Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR |
1984 |
Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks |
1984 |
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day) |
1985 |
"Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances |
1985 |
California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit |
1985 |
Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1985 |
Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10 |
1985 |
Rod Carew is 16th to get 3,000 hits |
1985 |
White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees |
1986 |
Reports of probable OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreement on output quotas sends oil prices higher |
1987 |
At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker |
1987 |
FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters |
1988 |
Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
1988 |
Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case |
1989 |
Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly |
1990 |
95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth) |
1990 |
European community proposes a boycott of Iraq |
1991 |
1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 |
1991 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
1991 |
The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. |
1993 |
Angolan air force bombs Huambo |
1993 |
Rwandian Hutus & Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha |
1993 |
Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits |
1994 |
Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered |
1994 |
Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race |
1994 |
Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway |
1995 |
Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees |
1995 |
Operation Storm begins in Croatia. |
1996 |
24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies |
1996 |
26th Olympic games closes at Atlanta, Georgia |
1996 |
J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, & N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame |
1997 |
"Keenan Ivory Wayan Show" premieres on Fox TV |
1997 |
185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job. |
1997 |
In Colombia, international oil company Occidental Petroleum declare force majeure on all oil exports from the Cano Limon field after a series of attacks knocked out a major oil pipeline |
2002 |
Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. |
2005 |
Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General. |
2006 |
Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August. |
2007 |
NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched. |
2009 |
Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally. |
2010 |
California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, was overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger. |
2012 |
45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen |
2012 |
South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics |
2013 |
Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran |
2016 |
London Knife Attack Kills Woman and Wounds 5 Other People |
2016 |
Trump Taj Mahal casino to shut down after years of losses |
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