This Day in History for 4th August

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 163

1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia
1265 - Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
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 Frederik 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
1760 - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1777 - Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1789 - French National Meeting ending feudal system
First US President George Washington 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)
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-Rhine
Murderer Lizzie Borden 1892 - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1897 - Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
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 - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1914 - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914 - King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
1914 - Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
1914 - US declares neutrality in WW I
1916 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1917 - Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
1922 - Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
US Calvary Commander George Armstrong Custer 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 estralished 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
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1943 - Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
1943 - USAF 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 - 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake: 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
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
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 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 USAAF 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 Vietnamese 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
Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 209

1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1604 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
1664 - Louis Lully, composer
1687 - Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]
1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1705 - Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1731 - Giuseppe Colla, composer
1748 - Maximilian Stadler, composer
1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
1776 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
1799 - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1816 - Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1818 - Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 - James White, American theologian (d. 1881)
Luggage Maker Louis Vuitton (1821) 1821 - Louis Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company
1823 - Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
1825 - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1839 - Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
1843 - Flor van Duyse, composer
1846 - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
1865 - Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
1867 - Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
1870 - Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin)
1873 - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
1884 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1888 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
1888 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965)
1890 - Erich Weinert, writer
1890 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1892 - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer
1897 - Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1900 - Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
1900 - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
Consort of George VI & mother of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900) 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, London or Hitchin, Queen Mother of England, King George VI's wife, (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, New Orleans Louisiana, jazz trumpeter (Hello Dolly), (d. 1971)
1901 - Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1902 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1903 - Helen Kane, [Schroeder], Bronx NY, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels)
1904 - Theodore Newton, NJ, actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire)
1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography)
1904 - Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
1905 - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator
1906 - Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
1908 - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist
1908 - Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author (Daily Express)
1909 - Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner (1930's)
1909 - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901) 1909 - Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1910 - William H Schuman, NYC, composer (Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard)
1910 - Anita Page, American actress (d.2008)
1910 - Hedda Sterne, Bucharest Romania, artist working in America
1912 - David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1913 - Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonians, Loving)
1913 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
1914 - Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
1915 - Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
1915 - Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1918 - Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), American author (d. 1992)
1920 - Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
1921 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
1923 - Arthur Butterworth, composer
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1923 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1928 - Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 - David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
1930 - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian
1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
1931 - Narendra Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1950's)
1933 - Nathan Eugene Brooks, Cleve Oh, flyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1933 - Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch choreographer/ballet dancer (Painted Birds)
1934 - Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita
1934 - Rutger Kopland, [Rutger van den Hoofdakker], Dutch poet
1936 - Elsberry Hobbs, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1937 - David Vickerman Bedford, composer
1937 - Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, S Afr attorney/CP parliament leader
1938 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
1939 - Frankie Ford, [Frank Guzzo], Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
1939 - Frank Vincent, American actor
1940 - Karel Vachek, director (Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities)
1940 - Rosemarie "Timi" Yuro, US singer (Hurt)
1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1847 - Author of Moby Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1964 - Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (35) weds Alice Macleod
1970 - "The Beach Boys" drummer Dennis Wilson (25) weds Barbara Charren (24)
1988 - Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
1994 - American rapper The Notorious B.I.G (22) weds Faith Evans
2001 - "James Bond" actor Pierce Brosnan (49) weds TV host and journalist Keely Shaye Smith (37) at the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland
2001 - "Northern Exposure" actor Joshua Morrow (27) weds Tobe Keeney
2006 - Former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche (30) weds PJ Mansfield at Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Mary in Saggart Village, Dublin
2012 - Actress Natalie Portman (31) weds ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied (35) in Big Sur, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 91 of 91

1060 - Henry I, King of France (1027-60), dies at 52
1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1204 - Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1265 - Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1265 - Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, killed in the Battle of Evesham (b. 1223)
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1430 - Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
1476 - Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1526 - Juan Sebastian Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
1566 - Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
1578 - Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1578 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
1584 - John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
1598 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
1612 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1633 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
1639 - Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1666 - Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1708 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
1712 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
1718 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1778 - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1795 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1821 - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
1844 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1850 - Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
1859 - Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)
1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
Author Hans Christian Andersen (1875) 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1889 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
1891 - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1904 - Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
1914 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
1915 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
1919 - D[ave] W Gregory, cricketer (brother of Ned, uncle of Syd), dies
1920 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
1922 - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
1925 - Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
1927 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
1931 - Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
1931 - Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon, dies at 73
Heart surgeon Daniel Williams (1931) 1936 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
1938 - L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
1938 - Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
1938 - Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
1940 - Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
1942 - Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 - Peter Smith, cricketer (Essex leggie, 3 wickets for England), dies
1973 - Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
1975 - John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57
1976 - Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop
1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1977 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92
1981 - Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
1982 - Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
1984 - Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
1984 - Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
1984 - Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1985 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
1987 - Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
1991 - Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1992 - Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
1992 - Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
1993 - Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
1993 - Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
1994 - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
1994 - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
1995 - Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
1995 - J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
1996 - Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
1997 - Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (Feb 21 1875), dies at 122
1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2002 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2008 - Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer. (b. 1985)
2009 - Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
2011 - Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)