Today is August 4
Backgammon Day
Hooray for Kids Day!
Taxpayer Appreciation Day
National Chocolate Chip Day
Coast Guard Day
Kentucky Fried Chicken Day
Food Holidays
National Chocolate Chip Day
Double Chocolate Chip Swirl Cookie
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National Champagne Day
Champagne Bar
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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
In the News
1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United Statesdeclares its neutrality.
1915 – World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
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.
1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead inMississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violatingmotorist Rodney King’s civil rights.
1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
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.
2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched.
2011 – Mark Duggan is shot and killed by Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, London, resulting in public protests and eventually four days of riots.
Holidays and Observances
Christian Feast Day:
John Vianney
Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coast Guard Day (U.S.)
Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
Matica Slovenská Day (Slovakia)
Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
The first day of Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
Music
1927 – Jimmy Rodgers recorded “Sleep Baby Sleep” and “Soldier’s Sweetheart.”
1956 – Elvis Presley’s song “Hound Dog” were released.
1957 – The Everly Brothers made their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and introduced their upcoming single, “Wake Up Little Susie” and the song “Bye Bye Love.”
1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its “Hot 100″ chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.”
1966 – A ban of the broadcast of any and all Beatles records on most U.S. radio stations went into effect. The ban was in response to John Lennon stating that the band was now more popular than Jesus Christ.
1974 – Paul Simon’s “Love Me Like A Rock” was released.
1975 – Robert Plant and his family were suffered injuries in a car accident on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes.
1980 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono began recording their album “Double Fantasy.”
1984 – Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman were married.
1987 – The soundtrack “Dirty Dancing” was released.
1998 – MTV switched off its channel feed to 500,000 homes in Amsterdam after network provider A2000 demanded that MTV share its previously separate channel with two other operators and pay for distribution.
2005 – Yahoo Inc. announced that it was beginning a test of a new search engine feature that would search through millions of songs offered on popular Internet music services.
2005 – The iTunes Music Store in Japan officially opened with one million songs available.
2009 – The iTunes Music Store was officially launched in Mexico.
Movies
White Zombie 1932
Yog, Monster From Space 1971, filmed in 1970 as Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai No Daikaijû
Night of Dark Shadows 1971
Virtuosity 1995
Psycho Beach Party 2000
Evil Eyes 2004
Red Eye 2005
Motor Home Massacre 2005
Mutant Chronicles 2008
Zombie Dearest 2009
Television
1968 - WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
1997 - “Keenan Ivory Wayan Show,” premieres on Fox TV
Sports
1910 - A’s Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
1934 - NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
1967 - 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
1984 - Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
1996 - 26th Olympic games closes at Atlanta, Georgia
Famous Births
1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
1901 – Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (d. 1969)
1904 – Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966)
1904 – Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
1906 – Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001)
1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988)
1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1910 – Anita Page, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1910 – William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter (d. 2011)
1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat (d. 1947)
1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (d. 1980)
1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012)
1918 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)
1918 – Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
1919 – Michel Déon, French author and playwright
1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
1922 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (d. 2012)
1923 – Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
1926 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (d. 2000)
1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1928 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
1928 – Gerard Damiano, American director of adult films (d. 2008)
1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi Shi’a cleric
1931 – Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
1932 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
1934 – Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager
1934 – Allan Murdmaa, Estonian architect (d. 2009)
1935 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer (d. 1997)
1935 – Michael J. Noonan, Irish politician, 25th Minister of Defence for Ireland (d. 2013)
1935 – Carol Arthur, American producer and film/television actress
1936 – Giorgos Zographos, Greek musician and actor (d. 2005)
1937 – David Bedford, English keyboard player and composer (d. 2011)
1938 – Ellen Schrecker, American historian and educator
1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor
1940 – Larry Knechtel, American bass player (Bread and The Wrecking Crew) (d. 2009)
1940 – Frances Stewart, British development economist
1940 – Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 – Martin Jarvis, English actor
1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
1942 – Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1943 – Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, 6th President of the Principality of Asturias
1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper and footballer
1944 – Amjad Islam Amjad, Pakistani poet, screenwriter, and songwriter
1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
1945 – Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
1946 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser (d. 1994)
1946 – Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist
1947 – Klaus Schulze, German keyboard player and songwriter (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and Cosmic Jokers)
1948 – Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach
1949 – John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1952 – Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (Clannad and T with the Maggies)
1952 – Gábor Demszky, Hungarian lawyer and politician
1953 – Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager
1953 – Vini Reilly, English musician
1954 – Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter
1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General
1955 – Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (The Boxmasters)
1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer
1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author
1957 – Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player and coach
1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer
1958 – Ian Broudie, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds, Big in Japan, and Care)
1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet
1958 – Mary Decker, American runner
1958 – Kym Karath, American actress and singer
1958 – Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
1959 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002)
1959 – John Gormley, Irish politician
1960 – Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
1960 – Dean Malenko, American wrestler
1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
1960 – Bernard Rose, English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1960 – Tim Winton, Australian author
1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender
1961 – Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 – Peter Reichert, German footballer
1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
1962 – Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
1964 – Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician
1964 – Gary King, English radio host
1964 – Anna Sui, American fashion designer
1965 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1965 – Crystal Chappell, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Dennis Lehane, American author
1965 – Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian and author
1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
1965 – Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager
1965 – James Tupper, Canadian actor
1966 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1967 – Timothy Adams, American model and actor
1967 – Michael Marsh, American sprinter
1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor
1968 – Lee Mack, English comedian and actor
1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor
1969 – Mark Bickley, Australian footballer and coach
1969 – Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy)
1969 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
1969 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
1969 – Troy O’Leary, American baseball player
1970 – John August, American director and screenwriter
1970 – Bret Baier, American journalist
1970 – Steve House, American mountaineer
1970 – Steven Jack, South African cricketer
1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972 – Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral)
1973 – Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1973 – Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
1973 – Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Kily González, Argentinian footballer
1974 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (d. 2001)
1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
1975 – Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1975 – Joe Saenz, American gangster
1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
1975 – Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1976 – Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
1977 – Kazarian, American wrestler
1977 – Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1978 – Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Luke Allen, American baseball player
1978 – Victor Marius Beliciu, Romanian sitar player
1978 – Emmanuelle Boidron, French actor
1978 – Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1978 – Mick Cain, American actor
1978 – Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian sprinter
1978 – Ibán Espadas, Spanish footballer
1978 – Shaunard Harts, American football player
1978 – Satoshi Hino, American-Japanese voice actor
1978 – Suja Irfan, Bangladeshi cricketer
1978 – Benet Kaci, Kosovan journalist and singer
1978 – Jon Knott, American baseball player
1978 – Karine Legault, Canadian swimmer
1978 – Duane Ludwig, American mixed martial artist
1978 – Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
1978 – Danish Nawaz, Pakistani actor and director
1978 – Siri Nordby, Norwegian footballer
1978 – Talinda Nyathi, Botswanan footballer
1978 – JD Samson, American DJ and producer (Le Tigre, MEN, and The New England Roses)
1978 – Ricardo Serrano, Spanish cyclist
1978 – Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
1978 – Michail Stifunin, Russian ice dancer
1979 – Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
1980 – Richard Dawson, English cricketer
1981 – Erica Carlson, Swedish actress
1981 – Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx)
1981 – Jana Kolukanova, Estonian swimmer
1981 – Meghan Markle, American model and actress
1981 – Ben Scott, English cricketer
1981 – Abigail Spencer, American actress
1982 – Rubinho, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Greta Gerwig, American actress and screenwriter
1983 – Nathaniel Buzolic, Australian actor
1984 – Mardy Collins, American basketball player
1985 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Robbie Findley, American soccer player
1985 – Kina Grannis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1985 – Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
1985 – Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1986 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Nick Augusto, American drummer (Trivium)
1986 – Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
1987 – Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
1987 – Phil Younghusband, English–Filipino footballer
1987 – Marreese Speights American basketball player
1988 – Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
1988 – Tom Parker, English singer (The Wanted)
1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
1989 – Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Young Divas)
1990 – Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
1991 – Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
1991 – Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
1991 – River Viiperi, Spanish model
1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
1992 – Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
1992 – Cole Sprouse, Italian-American actor
1992 – Dylan Sprouse, Italian-American actor
1993 – Saido Berahino, Burundian-English footballer
1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
1995 – Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
1995 – Jessica Sanchez, American singer
2001 – Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor
Deaths
1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1914 – Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1881)
1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1940 – Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
1941 – Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet (b. 1883)
1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
1957 – Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
1959 – József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop (b. 1923)
1976 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
1977 – Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
1985 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933)
1989 – Franziska Liebing, Swedish-born German actress (d. 1901)
1991 – Don DaGradi, American screenwriter (b. 1911)
1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (b. 1912)
1992 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
1996 – Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936)
1997 – Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (b. 1875)
1998 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
2000 – Leslie Glass, American porn actress and model (b. 1963)
2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2005 – Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
2011 – Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982)
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
2012 – Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
2012 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (b. 1918)
2012 – Metin Erksan, Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2012 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931)
2012 – Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
2012 – Bud Riley, American football player and coach (b. 1925)
2012 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2013 – Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist (b. 1940)
2013 – Sherko Bekas, Iraqi poet (b. 1940)
2013 – Ronny Bruckner, Belgian businessman (b. 1957)
2013 – Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (b. 1925)
2013 – Dominick Harrod, English journalist (b. 1940)
2013 – Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
2013 – Renato Ruggiero, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1930)
2013 – Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1922)
2013 – Stanisław Targosz, Polish general (b. 1948)
2013 – Billy Ward, Australian boxer (b. 1993)
2013 – Sandy Woodward, English admiral (b. 1932)
2013 – Tim Wright, American bass player (Pere Ubu and DNA) (b. 1950)
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