1988 – U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
0070 – Second Temple in Jerusalem set on fire by Roman army under Titus during the capture of the city (approx)
0610 – In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an
0955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe.
1461 – Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquisition in Spain
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1659 – Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb has his brother and competitor for the throne Dara Shukoh executed on religious grounds
1680 – Tewa medicine man, Popé, leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican Province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 – King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
1809 – Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain.
1821 – Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1835 – Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress. The “Nation’s Attic” was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1859 – In Boston, MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffman first synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, which would later be patened by his company Bayer under the name “aspirin”
1914 – Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1920 – Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1921 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 – Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1941 – FDR & Churchill’s 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland
1942 – 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
1944 – Battle of Narva ends, The 8-day long battle was fought between the German Army and the Soviet Leningrad Front for the control of the Narva Isthmus in Estonia during the Second World War. The battle ended with decisive German victory
1944 – U.S. forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 – The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1949 – In the U.S., the National Military Establishment had its name changed to the Department of Defense.
1960 – Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1965 – In Austin, TX, a fire burned part of the 20th floor of the 27-story University of Texas main building. A collection that contained items once owned by escape artist Harry Houdini and circus magnate P. T. Barnum were damaged by smoke and water.
1968 – Race riots in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1971 – During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre
1975 – David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview former US President Richard Nixon
1977 – About 100 white sympathizers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
1988 – U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-04-mn-10462-story.html
1990 – The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1993 – A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice
1994 – U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 – Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2001 – US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity
2001 – An attack on a train during the Angolan Civil War kills about 250 people, Rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola derailed a train using an anti-tank mine and opened fire on the passengers.
2003 – Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
2006 – Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial aircraft.
2014 – Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by a policeman.
2017 – Scientists study identifying nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) deficiency major cause of miscarriages and multiple birth defects published in “New England Journal of Medicine”
2018 – Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in “counter-extremism centers” in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights
2018 – Landmark case against weed killer Roundup, San Francisco court awards groundsman Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for giving him terminal cancer
2019 – Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges
2020 – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces his government is resigning, less than a week after massive industrial explosions devastated Beirut
2021 – Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
