Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 4
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This is a list of selected August 4 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.August 4: Civic Holiday in most areas of Canada (2008); Emancipation Day in various Caribbean countries (2008)
- 1578 – King Sebastian I (pictured) disappeared at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir near Ksar-el-Kebir, Morocco, leading to a dynastic crisis in Portugal.
- 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo–Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar from Spain.
- 1790 – A newly passed tariff act in the United States established the Revenue Cutter Service, an armed maritime law enforcement service that was the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard.
- 1892 – The father and stepmother of spinster Lizzie Borden were found murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, an incident that became a cause célèbre and entered into pop culture and folklore.
- 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin Incident: The second of two U.S. Navy destroyers was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
