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Day Of The Week: August 4
August 4, 2025 is the 216th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 4
- 70 –The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- 1532 –the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
- 1578 –Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, 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, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
- 1914 –World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
- 1936 –Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 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.
- 2002 –Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
- 2005 –Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada’s 27th Governor General.
- 2010 –California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
Who were born on August 4?
- 1821 –Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892)
- 1844 –Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (d. 1929)
- 1909 –Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
- 1949 –John Riggins, American football player
- 1961 –Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1962 –Paul Reynolds, British guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
- 1964 –Gary King, British radio presenter
- 1977 –Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
- 1992 –Dylan Sprouse, American actor
- 1992 –Tiffany Evans, American singer
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