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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
- 1327 –First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
- 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.
- 1790 –A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- 1854 –The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
- 1944 –The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1958 –The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
- 1965 –The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1987 –The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
- 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.
- 2002 –Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
Who were born on August 4?
- 1867 –Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
- 1870 –Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
- 1930 –Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric
- 1942 –David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
- 1946 –Maureen Starkey, English ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
- 1970 –John August, American screenwriter
- 1981 –Ben Scott, English cricketer
- 1991 –Lucinda Dryzek, British actress
- 1991 –River Viiperi, Spanish Model
- 1992 –Tiffany Evans, American singer
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