4th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1792
  • Great Britain
  • Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1821
  • France
  • "Birth of Louis Vuitton, French designer." more
  • 1834
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of John Venn, British logician who developed the Venn diagram"
  • 1859
  • Norway
  • "Birth of Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer"
  • 1870
  • Great Britain
  • Birth of Sir Harry Lauder more
  • 1900
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Elizabeth Bowes Lyons, Queen Consort of George VI"
  • 1901
  • "Birth of Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter" more
  • 1908
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Osbert Lancaster, British cartoonist, writer, stage designer and art critic."
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Glenn Cunningham, American athlete, broke the world record for the mile in 1934 despite almost losing his legs in a fire as a child"
• event
  • 70
  • Israel
  • The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem more
  • 1265
  • Great Britain
  • "Battle of Evesham, the decisive engagement that spelt the end of Simon de Montfort's rebellion." more
  • 1693
  • France
  • "Champagne invented by Dom Pierre Pérignon, a Benedictine monk, although in his day it was not a sparkling wine." more
  • 1704
  • Great Britain
  • British take Gibraltar
  • 1906
  • Australia
  • Sydney Central Railway Station opened. more
  • 1914
  • Britain declares War on Germany - WWI begins
  • 1918
  • World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne ended .
  • 1944
  • Netherlands
  • "Anne Frank, child diarist, arrested by the Gestapo"
  • 1984
  • Burkina Faso
  • Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso
• Death
  • 1997
  • France
  • "Death of Jeanne Calment, aged 122 she was the oldest person with a reliably recorded date of birth and death"
  • 1999
  • United States
  • "Death of Victor Mature, American film actor and matinee idol"