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The 4t o August is the 216t day o the year (217t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 149 days ti come.

Events

1265 - Battle o Evesham: Then-Prince Edward (later Edward I o Ingland) defeats forces o rebellious barons led bi Simon de Montfort, 6t Yerl o Leicester.
1532 - The Duchy o Breetany is unitit tae the Kinrick o Fraunce.
1704 - War o the Spaingie Succession: An Inglis an Dutch fleet capturs Gibraltar.
1845 - Breetish emigrant ship "Cataraqui" runs agroond on King Island naur Tasmanie, killin 399 fowk, wi juist 9 survivin.
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the offeecial banner tae be flown on Japanese ships.
1906 - The Central Railway Station in Sydney, Australie, opens.
1914 - Stairt o Warld War I: The Breetish Empire an Belgium declare war on Germany.
1944 - Jewish diarist Anne Frank an her faimily are foond at their secret annex in Amsterdam an arrested bi the Gestapo.
1946 - A yirdquauk hits the Dominican Republic, killin 100 fowk.
1947 - The Supreme Court o Japan is established.
1965 - The Cook Islands get self-determination in free association wi New Zealand.
1979 - The Cook Islands introduce a new banner.
1983 - Thomas Sankara taks pouer in Upper Volta.
1984 - Upper Volta is renamed Burkina Faso.
1996 - End o the 1996 Simmer Olympics in Atlanta.
1997 - Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment dees as the auldest-recordit person ever, at 122 year, 164 days auld.
2000 - Celebrations tak place in the Unitit Kinrick tae mairk the 100t birthday o Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mither.
2006 - Scots politeecian Tommy Sheridan wins his defamation case agin the News of the World newspaper.
2007 - Slovenie bans smokin in public places.
2007 - NASA's "Phoenix" spacecraft is launched.
2009 - Umwhile US Preses Bill Clinton traivels tae North Korea tae secure the release o twa journalists.
2012 - 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon: "Super Saiturday" - Great Breetain wins 6 gowd medals on its maist successfu day in Olympic histerie, incluidin three in less nor an hour in the Olympic Stadium, won bi Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford an Mo Farah.
2019 - A mass shuitin in Dayton, Ohio leaves ten fowk, incluidin the shooter, deed.
2019 - A splosion in Cairo kills 20 fowk.
2020 - 2020 Beirut explosions: Twa splosions occur in the port o Beirut, Lebanon at a warehoose storin ammonium nitrate; the seicont o these kills at least 220 fowk, injures 6,000, maks up tae 300,000 hameless, hivily damages mony biggins an destroys the entire port.