What are the important events that happened on August 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 4: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 4 is the 216^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 22, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,237,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecahexagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 197 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,609 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 4 Historical Events

• 1791 –
  The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
• 1863 –
  Matica slovenská, Slovakia’s public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
• 1902 –
  The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• 1914 –
  World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
• 1958 –
  The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
• 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.
• 1977 –
  US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• 1987 –
  The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
• 1989 –
  Licence to Kill goes on general cinema release in the United Kingdom.
• 1995 –
  Operation Storm begins in Croatia.

Who were born on August 4?

• 1912 –
  Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947)
• 1942 –
  David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
• 1943 –
  Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician
• 1959 –
  Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (d. 2002)
• 1961 –
  Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1962 –
  Paul Reynolds, British guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
• 1967 –
  Michael Marsh, American sprinter
• 1977 –
  Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
• 1985 –
  Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
• 1987 –
  Jang Geun-suk, Korean actor

Who died on August 4?

• 1060 –
  King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• 1338 –
  Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
• 1612 –
  Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
• 1875 –
  Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
• 1942 –
  Alberto Franchetti, Italian opera composer (b. 1860)
• 1982 –
  Bruce Goff, American architect (b. 1904)
• 1999 –
  Rodney Ansell, Australian who was the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
• 2003 –
  Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 –
  Anatoly Larkin, Russian-born American physicist (b. 1932)
• 2011 –
  Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)