Today in History
4 August
205 births · 92 deaths · 48 events recorded
Notable Births
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Lil Skies
b. 1998
American rapper and singer-songwriter(born 1998)
Bruna Marquezine
b. 1995
Brazilian actress and director (born 1995)
Bobby Shmurda
b. 1994
American rapper, songwriter, and criminal (born 1994)
Dylan Sprouse
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Daniele Garozzo
b. 1992
Italian fencer (born 1992)
Marcos (footballer, born 1973)
b. 1973
Brazilian footballer
Daniel Dae Kim
b. 1968
American actor (born 1968)
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
b. 1721
British politician (1721–1803)
Notable Deaths
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Charles Cyphers
d. 2024
American actor (1939–2024)
Tsung-Dao Lee
d. 2024
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Duane Thomas
d. 2024
American football player (1947–2024)
Dalia Fadila
d. 2023
Israeli educator (1971/1972–2023)
Les Munro
d. 2015
New Zealand air force squadron leader
Raul Hilberg
d. 2007
Austrian-born American Holocaust researcher (1926–2007)
Marilyn Monroe
d. 1962
American actress and model (1926–1962)
Hans Christian Andersen
d. 1875
Danish writer (1805–1875)
On This Day in History
All 48 ›
2020
Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
2020 Beirut explosion
2019
Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.
2019 Dayton shooting
2018
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.
Syrian civil war
2018
Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard.
Crisis in Venezuela
2007
NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.
NASA
2006
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).
2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers
1995
Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins.
Operation Storm
1987
The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.
Federal Communications Commission