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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 4
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Dallas Green; baseball manager (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).
- 90th: 1934 - New York Giants' player Mel Ott sets record of six runs in game and beats Philadelphia Phillies 21-4.
- 80th: 1944 - German Gestapo discover the hiding place of Anne Frank and family, and others hiding in a warehouse. They are sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, but Anne's diary is left behind, undiscovered by the Germans, later found in 1947.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Richard Belzer; actor-comedian (How to be a Stand Up, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Homicide).
- 60th: 1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi.
- 50th: 1974 - Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor.
- 40th: 1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 40th: 1984 - Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100m dash at Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
- 40th: 1984 - Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit home run.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Frank Maxwell at age 87 of complications from heart disease; actor (Our Man Higgins TV show, Felony Squad TV show, Return to Peyton Place TV show, The Young Marrieds TV show, General Hospital TV show).
- 15th: 2009 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardons two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry earlier in the year, after former U.S. President Bill Clinton meets with Kim in North Korea.
- 5th: 2019 - Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
- 5th: 2019 - A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the National Cancer Institute Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others.
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