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August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year.
others celebrating their birthday today
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
1821 - Louis Vuitton, French designer
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
1929 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa
1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1961 - Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1981 - Marques Houston, American singer and actor
1992 - Cole and Dylan Sprouse, American child actors
those who died today
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
1792 - John Burgoyne, British general
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
Events
70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (forerunner of the US Coast Guard).
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
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 family of Lizzie Borden is 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 declares its neutrality.
1944 - The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1964 - American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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.
happy birthday hinoai for August 5th!!
August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year.
others celebrating their birthday today
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
1821 - Louis Vuitton, French designer
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
1929 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa
1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1961 - Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1981 - Marques Houston, American singer and actor
1992 - Cole and Dylan Sprouse, American child actors
those who died today
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
1792 - John Burgoyne, British general
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
Events
70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (forerunner of the US Coast Guard).
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
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 family of Lizzie Borden is 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 declares its neutrality.
1944 - The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1964 - American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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.
happy birthday hinoai for August 5th!!