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Events

• 1789 (237 years ago) France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
• 1796 (230 years ago) French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
• 1944 (82 years ago) The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
• 1984 (42 years ago) The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• 2006 (20 years ago) A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
• 2007 (19 years ago) NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.

Births

• 1792 (234 years ago) Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (died 1822)
• 1805 (221 years ago) William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1865)
• 1859 (167 years ago) Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 2002)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (died 1971)
• 1960 (66 years ago) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
• 1961 (65 years ago) Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1981 (45 years ago) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, American member of British royal family, media personality and actress

Deaths

• 1060 (966 years ago) Henry I of France,
• 1526 (500 years ago) Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
• 1997 (29 years ago) Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

All 354 events, births and deaths of August 4