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08-04-2010, 05:09 AM
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This Date in History - August 4th
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* 70 The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
* 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 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.
* 1532 the Duchy of Brittany was annexed to the Kingdom of France.
* 1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, 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.
* 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
* 1789 In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
* 1790 A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
* 1791 The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
* 1821 Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
* 1824 Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.
* 1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
* 1863 Matica slovenskα, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, was established in Martin.
* 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.
* 1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
* 1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
* 1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
* 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 Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
* 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.
* 1954 The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla, as the national anthem.
* 1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
* 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.
* 1965 The Constitution of Cook Islands came 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, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
* 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 chargι daffaires. 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.
* 1984 The African republic 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 MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
* 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.
* 2002 Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.
* 2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaλlle Jean will be Canada's 27th and first black Governor General.
* 2006 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
* 2007 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
* 2007 Airport police officer Marνa del Lujαn Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing an undeclared amount of US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
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This Date in History - August 4th
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* 70 The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
* 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 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.
* 1532 the Duchy of Brittany was annexed to the Kingdom of France.
* 1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, 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.
* 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
* 1789 In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
* 1790 A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
* 1791 The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
* 1821 Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
* 1824 Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.
* 1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
* 1863 Matica slovenskα, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, was established in Martin.
* 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.
* 1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
* 1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
* 1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
* 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 Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
* 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.
* 1954 The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla, as the national anthem.
* 1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
* 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.
* 1965 The Constitution of Cook Islands came 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, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
* 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 chargι daffaires. 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.
* 1984 The African republic 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 MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
* 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.
* 2002 Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.
* 2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaλlle Jean will be Canada's 27th and first black Governor General.
* 2006 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
* 2007 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
* 2007 Airport police officer Marνa del Lujαn Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing an undeclared amount of US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
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