All Events

Historical Events on August 4

  • Gibraltar

    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.

  • Law of Privilege

    1789

    France: members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

  • 7th Cavalry Regiment

    1873

    American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.

  • Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive

    1915

    World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

  • Soviet Union

    1924

    Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.

  • Gestapo

    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.

  • Michael Schwerner

    1964

    Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

  • Jimmy Carter

    1977

    U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

  • Phoenix (spacecraft)

    2007

    NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.

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