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August 4: Day of the Week
August 4, 2024 is the 217th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.
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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
August 4 Historical Event(s)
1693
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
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.
1824
The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.
1892
The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1906
Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1946
An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
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.
1995
Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
2007
Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as “Maletinazo”.
2010
California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
Who were born on August 4?
1891
Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989)
1930
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric
1937
David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer
1952
Moya Brennan, Irish singer
1957
John Wark, Scottish footballer
1968
Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1981
Marques Houston, American singer (IMx) and actor
1985
Crystal Bowersox, American singer
1989
Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer (Young Divas)
1994
Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
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