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August 4 Events in History - August 4 Birthdays - August 4 Deaths
August 4, 1997 "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV
August 4, 1996 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
August 4, 1996 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
August 4, 1996 J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, and N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame
August 4, 1995 Darryl Strawberry joins the New York Yankees
August 4, 1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
August 4, 1994 Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race
August 4, 1994 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on New York parkway
August 4, 1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo
August 4, 1993 Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
August 4, 1993 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
August 4, 1991 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
August 4, 1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
August 4, 1990 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth)
August 4, 1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
August 4, 1989 Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by New York Yankee Roberto Kelly
August 4, 1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
August 4, 1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
August 4, 1987 At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
August 4, 1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
August 4, 1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
August 4, 1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1522 performances
August 4, 1985 California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
August 4, 1985 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
August 4, 1985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
August 4, 1985 Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
August 4, 1985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
August 4, 1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
August 4, 1984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
August 4, 1984 Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks
August 4, 1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
August 4, 1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
August 4, 1983 France performs nuclear test
August 4, 1983 Revolution in Burkina
August 4, 1983 While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
August 4, 1982 New York Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
August 4, 1981 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank for STS-2 mission
August 4, 1981 Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
August 4, 1980 Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas and Caribbean
August 4, 1980 John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
August 4, 1980 Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
August 4, 1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins
August 4, 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
August 4, 1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy
August 4, 1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 4, 1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
August 4, 1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
August 4, 1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
August 4, 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
August 4, 1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
August 4, 1971 U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
August 4, 1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
August 4, 1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
August 4, 1968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California
August 4, 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
August 4, 1968 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting
August 4, 1967 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
August 4, 1967 Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
August 4, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 4, 1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
August 4, 1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
August 4, 1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
August 4, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin
August 4, 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
August 4, 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
August 4, 1961 108 degrees F, Spokane, WA
August 4, 1961 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
August 4, 1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
August 4, 1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances
August 4, 1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
August 4, 1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
August 4, 1956 Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
August 4, 1956 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
August 4, 1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
August 4, 1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
August 4, 1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
August 4, 1953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs and wins 15-0
August 4, 1949 NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
August 4, 1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
August 4, 1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
August 4, 1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
August 4, 1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
August 4, 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
August 4, 1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
August 4, 1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
August 4, 1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina
August 4, 1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
August 4, 1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
August 4, 1942 Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
August 4, 1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
August 4, 1941 Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
August 4, 1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
August 4, 1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
August 4, 1934 New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4
August 4, 1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium
August 4, 1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
August 4, 1929 Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
August 4, 1929 Jones Beach in New York opens
August 4, 1927 Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens
August 4, 1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms
August 4, 1925 U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
August 4, 1922 Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
August 4, 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers
August 4, 1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million
August 4, 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
August 4, 1914 German fleet under Admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
August 4, 1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
August 4, 1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
August 4, 1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
August 4, 1914 U.S. declares neutrality in WW I
August 4, 1910 A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
August 4, 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
August 4, 1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
August 4, 1897 Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
August 4, 1892 Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
August 4, 1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
August 4, 1886 Colombia adopts constitution
August 4, 1881 122 degrees F (50 degrees C), Seville, Spain (European record)
August 4, 1879 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
August 4, 1870 British Red Cross Society forms
August 4, 1864 Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
August 4, 1862 U.S. government collects its 1st income tax
August 4, 1855 John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
August 4, 1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out
August 4, 1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
August 4, 1791 Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova
August 4, 1790 U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
August 4, 1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system
August 4, 1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
August 4, 1760 Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia
August 4, 1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
August 4, 1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press)
August 4, 1730 Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England
August 4, 1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
August 4, 1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
August 4, 1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
August 4, 1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die
August 4, 1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England
August 4, 1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
August 4, 1598 London's head office of Hanze closed
August 4, 1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
August 4, 1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
August 4, 1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English
August 4, 1347 English troops conquer Ft. Calais
August 4, 1265 Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
August 4, 1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia



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