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What happened in history on this day: August 4?
On August 4 in ...
- 1790 - Congress authorizes construction of ten vessels to enforce tariff and trade laws, prevent smuggling, and protect the collection of federal revenue, creating the Revenue Marine Service.
- 1830 - Plans for the city of Chicago, Illinois are laid out.
- 1864 - Land and naval action at Brazos Santiago, Texas.
- 1886 - US Congress makes silver certificates legal tender, and authorizes $1, $2, and $5 notes in addition to the higher amounts.
- 1892 - The United States Postal Service begins transport from the San Francisco sub-treasury in San Francisco, California, to the New York City sub-treasury, $20 million of gold coins in 500 boxes, on four rail cars.
- 1922 - 13 million telephones in the U.S. and Canada go dead as the Bell System shuts down all its switchboards and switching stations at 6:25PM for one minute, in memory of Alexander Graham Bell.
- 1925 - US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation.
- 1927 - Peace Bridge between US and Canada is opened.
- 1948 - Five-day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax.
- 1960 - Rocket propelled US Air Force research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH.
- 1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi.
- 1967 - Shortwave group ANARC's first convention (Chicago, Illinois).
- 1968 - 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California.
- 1971 - US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft.
- 1974 - Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor.
- 1977 - US President Jimmy Carter establishes Department of Energy.
- 1987 - The US Federal Communications Commission votes 4-0 to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
- 1988 - US Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II.
- 1988 - Hertz car rental company will pay out US$23 million in consumer fraud case.
- 1993 - A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
- 1997 - 185,000 UPS drivers (Teamsters Union) walk off the job.
- 2001 - The Seattle-based Windy Bay fishing vessel strikes a rock and sinks in Prince William Sound, 65km southwest of Valdez, Alaska. 133,000 litres of diesel fuel creates a sheen covering 10 square km, with about 36,800 litres recovered.
- 2007 - At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA launches a Delta II rocket carrying the Mars Phoenix lander to explore the north of Mars.
- 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.
- 2019 - Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
Births on August 4
- 1901 - Birth of Louis Armstrong in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; jazz musician and bandleader, "Hello Dolly" - oldest musician in Billboard history to have a Number One song.
- 1910 - Birth of William Howard Schuman in New York City, New York, USA; composer (American Festival Overture).
- 1912 - Birth of David Raksin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Modern Times).
- 1913 - Birth of Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; actor (Bostonian, Loving).
- 1915 - Birth of Irving Fields in New York City, New York USA; pianist (Ilona Massey Show).
- 1939 - Birth of Frankie Ford in Gretna, Louisiana, USA; rock vocalist ("Sea Cruise").
- 1943 - Birth of Tina Cole in Hollywood, California, USA; singer (King Cousins), actress (Katie - My Three Sons).
- 1952 - Birth of Bobby Buntrock in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Harold Baxter - Hazel).
- 1952 - Birth of Kristoffer Tabori in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Rappaccini's Daughter).
- 1955 - Birth of Andrew M Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Captain US Marine Corp/astronaut (sk: STS-46).
- 1955 - Birth of Billy Bob Thornton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA; actor (Sling Blade, A Family Thing, The Outsiders, Hearts Afire).
- 1955 - Birth of Charles D "Sam" Gemar in Yankton, South Dakota, USA; army/astronaut (STS 38, 48).
- 1958 - Birth of Mary Decker Tabb in Slaney, New Jersey, USA; Olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71).
- 1962 - Birth of Roger Clemens in Dayton, Ohio, USA; Boston Red Sox pitcher (Cy Young, Most Valuable Player).
- 1965 - Birth of Crystal Chappell in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; actress (Carly - Days of Our Lives).
Deaths on August 4
- 2003 - Death of Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916).
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