The 4t o August is the 216t day o the year (217t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 149 days ti come.
Events
1532 : Banner o Breetany 1906 : Sydney Central Railwey Station 1979 : Banner o the Cook Islands 2020 : Damage frae the massive splosion in Beirut , Lebanon 1265 - Battle o Evesham: Then-Prince Edward (later Edward I o Ingland ) defeats forces o rebellious barons led bi Simon de Montfort, 6t Yerl o Leicester .1532 - The Duchy o Breetany is unitit tae the Kinrick o Fraunce .1704 - War o the Spaingie Succession : An Inglis an Dutch fleet capturs Gibraltar .1845 - Breetish emigrant ship "Cataraqui" runs agroond on King Island naur Tasmanie , killin 399 fowk, wi juist 9 survivin.1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the offeecial banner tae be flown on Japanese ships.1906 - The Central Railway Station in Sydney , Australie , opens.1914 - Stairt o Warld War I : The Breetish Empire an Belgium declare war on Germany .1944 - Jewish diarist Anne Frank an her faimily are foond at their secret annex in Amsterdam an arrested bi the Gestapo .1946 - A yirdquauk hits the Dominican Republic , killin 100 fowk.1947 - The Supreme Court o Japan is established.1965 - The Cook Islands get self-determination in free association wi New Zealand .1979 - The Cook Islands introduce a new banner.1983 - Thomas Sankara taks pouer in Upper Volta.1984 - Upper Volta is renamed Burkina Faso .1996 - End o the 1996 Simmer Olympics in Atlanta .1997 - Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment dees as the auldest-recordit person ever, at 122 year, 164 days auld.2000 - Celebrations tak place in the Unitit Kinrick tae mairk the 100t birthday o Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , the Queen Mither.2006 - Scots politeecian Tommy Sheridan wins his defamation case agin the News of the World newspaper.2007 - Slovenie bans smokin in public places.2007 - NASA 's "Phoenix" spacecraft is launched.2009 - Umwhile US Preses Bill Clinton traivels tae North Korea tae secure the release o twa journalists.2012 - 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon : "Super Saiturday" - Great Breetain wins 6 gowd medals on its maist successfu day in Olympic histerie, incluidin three in less nor an hour in the Olympic Stadium, won bi Jessica Ennis-Hill , Greg Rutherford an Mo Farah .2019 - A mass shuitin in Dayton, Ohio leaves ten fowk, incluidin the shooter, deed.2019 - A splosion in Cairo kills 20 fowk.2020 - 2020 Beirut explosions : Twa splosions occur in the port o Beirut , Lebanon at a warehoose storin ammonium nitrate ; the seicont o these kills at least 220 fowk, injures 6,000, maks up tae 300,000 hameless, hivily damages mony biggins an destroys the entire port.
Births
Louis Armstrong Barack Obama 1521 - Pape Urban VII (d. 1590 )1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley , Inglis poet (d. 1822 )1792 - Edward Irving , Scots clergyman (d. 1834 )1805 - William Rowan Hamilton , Erse mathemateecian (d. 1865 )1859 - Knut Hamsun , Norse writer (d. 1952 )1870 - Harry Lauder , Scots sangster an comedian (d. 1950 )1900 - Nabi Tajima , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2018 )1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , Queen Mither o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 2002 )1901 - Louis Armstrong , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1971 )1912 - Raoul Wallenberg , Swadish diplomat (d. in or efter 1947 )1942 - David Lange , Prime meenister o New Zealand (d. 2005 )1952 - Moya Brennan , Erse sangster1955 - Alberto Gonzales , umwhile Unitit States Attorney General1955 - Billy Bob Thornton , American actor an writer1957 - John Wark , Scots fitbawer1960 - Bobby Connor , Scots fitbawer1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , umwhile Prime meenister o Spain 1961 - Pumpuang Duangjan , Thai sangster (d. 1992 )1961 - Barack Obama , 44t Preses o the Unitit States 1962 - Lori Lightfoot , American politeecian, 56t Mayor o Chicago 1965 - Fredrik Reinfeldt , Swadish politeecian1977 - Marek Heinz , Czech fitbawer1981 - Meghan, Coontess o Dumbairton , American-born actress an Breetish ryal1984 - Jamie Ewings , Scots fitbawer1991 - Graeme Shinnie , Scots fitbawer1993 - Sam Hidalgo-Clyne , Scots rugby union player
Daiths
1060 - Henry I o Fraunce (b. 1008 )1265 - Simon de Montfort, 6t Yerl o Leicester 1865 - William Edmondstoune Aytoun , Scots lawyer an poet (b. 1913 )1875 - Hans Christian Andersen , Dens author (b. 1805 )1922 - Enver Pasha , Turkish politeecian (b. 1891 )1962 - Marilyn Monroe , American actress (b. 1926 )1997 - Jeanne Calment , French supercentenarian, auldest recordit person ever (b. 1875 )2012 - Jimmy Thomson , Scots fitbawer (b. 1937 )2014 - James Brady , White House Press Secretar (b. 1940 )2017 - Chuck Hay , Scots curler (b. 1930 )
Halidays
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