August 4th
The August 4th is the 216e Jour of the Année (217e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
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1060 : Philippe Ier succeeds his father Henri Ier on the throne of France.
- 1145 : The emperor Conrad III validates the titles of Raimond of the Beams and Étiennette, younger sister by Douce Ière, without specifying the contents too much of it, and the right of coinage gives them, favors attached to sovereignty.
- 1265 : Battle of Evesham, battles decisive of the “second war of the Barons” during whom the English rebellious barons under the control of Simon V of Montfort will be massacred on the battle field by the royalist forces of Prince Edouard (future king Edouard Ier), four times more.
- 1381 : Signature of the treated of Guérande.
- 1443 : Foundation of the Old people's homes of Beaune, hospital for the poor, created on the initiative of Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the duke of Burgundy Philippe II the Good, and of its wife Saline Guigone.
- 1532 : Treaty of fastening of the Brittany to the France.
- 1578 : Battle of the Three Kings, Moroccan decisive victory against the luso-Spanish army
- 1693: Probable date of discovered manufactoring process of the Champagne by Dom Pérignon.
- 1789 : In France, abolition of the privileges by the constituent National Assembly.
- 1802 : Proclamation of the Constitution of Year X.
- 1870 : Battle of Wissembourg: defeat of the troops of Napoleon III vis-a-vis the Prussian .
XXe century
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1903 : The cardinal of Venice Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto becomes the Pape Pie X.
- 1914 : Invasion of the Belgium by the Germany.
- 1916 : (First World War): On the face of the the Middle East, second raid germano-Turkish on Cairo.
- 1940 : The Italian army of Abyssinie enters in British Somalia.
- 1944 : Arrest of Anne Frank by the Gestapo, like seven others Jewish S with Amsterdam.
- 1958 : The submarine with nuclear propulsion states-unien Nautilus crosses the North pole under the ice-barrier.
- 1962 : Junction of the French and Italian teams of drilling of the Tunnel of Mont Blanc.
- 1982 : De-penalization of homosexuality in France.
- 1984 : The Upper Volta becomes the Burkina Faso under the crook of the CNR (National council of the Revolution) directed by Thomas Sankara, which will be assassinated 3 years later (October 15th 1987) following a coup d'etat orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré.
- 1988 : Leader of the Thailand, the general Prem Tinnasulanonda refuses in vain with Chatchai Chunhawan, leader of the party Nation Inhabitant of Thailand (Phak Thai cat), the post of Prime Minister who returns to him from right.
- 1998 : Rupture of the dams of the river Yang Tsé Kiang in China: 2000 died and more 100 000 disaster victims.
- 1999 : Coming into effect of a reform of the Orthography discussed in Germany.
XXIe century
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2002 :
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is elected president of the Bolivia.
- Disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two 10 year old young girls, with Soham with the the United Kingdom, assassinated by Ian Huntley.
- With alternate Barcelona (Spain), of Serafín Marín, Spanish Matador.
- 2005 : The Denmark sends a patrol boat towards the island Hans to maintain sovereignty Danish on the island, asserted by the Canada.
- 2006 :
Births
- 1521 : Urbain VII, 228e pope († September 27th 1590)
- 1664: Philibert Lambert, French poet († March 3rd 1731)
- 1770: François Etienne Kellermann, general
- 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet († July 8th 1822)
- 1805: William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer Irish († September 2nd 1865)
- 1859: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer († February 19th 1952)
- 1884: Henri Horn, younger winner of the Tour de France cyclist, at 20 years minus eleven days. († May 18th 1941)
- 1900: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, known as “Queen Mum”, queen mother of the the United Kingdom († March 30th 2002)
- 1901: Louis Armstrong, Singer and Trumpet player of American Jazz († July 6th 1971)
- 1904:
- Witold Gombrowicz, writer Polish († July 24th 1969)
- Christian-Jaque, French realizer († July 8th 1994)
- 1921: Maurice “Rocket” Richard, hockey player on Québécois ice († May 27th 2000)
- 1937: Thierry Roland, sporting commentator
- 1943: Michael J. McCulley, American astronaut
- 1947: Klaus Schulze, type-setter and German musician, pioneer of the electronic music, the " pape" synthetizer.
- 1955 :
- Andrew Mr. Allen, American astronaut
- Charles D. Gemar, American astronaut
- Billy Bob Thornton, actor and American singer
- 1966: Luc Leblanc, champion of France and world champion of cycling
- 1969: max Cavalera, Brazilian musician
- 1973: Commercial Xavier, French swimmer
- 1992: Dylan Sprouse, American actor
- 1992: Adhesive Sprouse, American actor
Death
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1060 : Henri I {{er}}, King de France
- 1265: Simon V of Montfort, 6th count de Leicester, killed with the Battle of Evesham by the royalist forces of Prince Edouard (future king Edouard Ier of England)
- 1306: Venceslas III, king of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland
- 1378: Galéas II Visconti, lord of Milan
- 1639: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican playwright of Spanish ascent . (° October 2nd 1581)
- 1718: Rene Lepage of Co.-Claire, lord-founder of Rimouski, in Quebec/en News-France (° April 10th 1656)
- 1778: Pierre de Rigaud of Vaudreuil, French naval officer, last general governor of the News-France (° November 22nd 1698)
- 1827: Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier, writer and Politician French. (° December 25th 1750)
- 1875: Hans Christian Andersen, poet and author
- 1940: Vladimir Jabotinsky, a leader of the right wing of the movement Zionist and founder of the Jewish Legion (° October 18th 1880)
- 1977: Douglas Edgar Adrian, physiologist, specialist in the nervous system, Nobel Prize of physiology and medicine in 1932
- 1997: Jeanne Calms, senior of humanity at the 122 years age 5 months and 14 days (legally proven)
- 1990: Ettore Maserati, Italian car manufacturer
- 2003: Pierre Archstone, Québécois actor.
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints
- Seven Door frames of Éphèse: Maximilien, Jamblique, Martinien, Jean, Denis, Constantin and Antonin (+ towards 250), martyrs.
- Euphrone de Tours (+ 573), bishop who accommodated in Poitiers the relic of the Holy Cross from Constantinople.
Catholic saints
- Jean-Marie Vianney (1859), known as the Priest of Ars, Owner of the priests.
See too
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