SomeFacts | August 4

On this day - August 4

598 — Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion ...

1265 — Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince ...

1327 — First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid ...

1578 — Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the ...

1693 — Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention ...

1701 — Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations ...

1704 — War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an ...

1781 — Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a fleet of six East India Company ...

1783 — Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people ...

1789 — France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent ...

1790 — A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service ...

1791 — The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg ...

1796 — French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of ...

1814 — War of 1812: The ultimately unsuccessful Siege of Fort Erie ...

1821 — The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a ...

1854 — The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown ...

1863 — Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and ...

1873 — American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party ...

1887 — Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years ...

1889 — The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks ...

1892 — The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered ...

1914 — World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, ...

1915 — World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the ...

1921 — Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory ...

1924 — Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are ...

1936 — Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament ...

1944 — Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament ...

1944 — The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo ...

1946 — An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican ...

1947 — The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

1964 — Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and ...

1964 — Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, ...

1965 — The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving ...

1969 — Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean ...

1972 — Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer ...

1974 — A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto ...

1975 — The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA ...

1977 — U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the ...

1983 — Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government ...

1984 — The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

1987 — The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness ...

1995 — Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of ...

2006 — A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, ...

2007 — NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.

2018 — Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones ...

2018 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the ...

2019 — Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, ...

2020 — Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over ...