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Importance of 04th August in History

Know all Events, anniversaries, death, born that makes 04th August special in the world history.


देश और दुनिया के इतिहास के पन्‍नों में 04 अगस्त कई कारणों से महत्वपूर्ण है, उनमें से ये सभी प्रमुख हैं:-
  • 1886 में कोलंबिया ने संविधान अंगीकार किया।
  • 1870 में आज ही के दिन ब्रिटिश रेड क्रॉस सोसाइटी की स्थापना हुई।
  • 1875 में आज ही के दिन बच्‍चों के लिए खूबसूरत कहानियां लिखने वाले हैन्‍स क्रिश्चियन एंडरसन का जन्‍म हुआ था।
  • 1929 में आज ही के दिन अभिनेता, गायक, निर्देशक किशोर कुमार पैदा हुए थे।
  • 1930 में आज ही के दिन यूरोपीय देश बेल्जियम में बाल मजदूर कानून बनाया गया।
  • 1947 में आज ही के दिन जापान में सुप्रीमकोर्ट की स्‍थापना हुई।
  • 1961 में आज ही के दिन अमेरिका के पहले अश्‍वेत राष्‍ट्रपति बराक ओबामा का जन्‍म हुआ था।
  • 2007  में आज ही के दिन नासा ने Phoenix स्‍पेस्‍क्राफ्ट लांच किया।

1999
Death of Victor Mature, American film actor and matinee idol
United States
1997
Death of Jeanne Calment, aged 122 she was the oldest person with a reliably recorded date of birth and death
France
1984
Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
1944
Anne Frank, child diarist, arrested by the Gestapo
Netherlands
1918
World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne ended .
1914
Britain declares War on Germany - WWI begins
1909
Birth of Glenn Cunningham, American athlete, broke the world record for the mile in 1934 despite almost losing his legs in a fire as a child
United States
1908
Birth of Sir Osbert Lancaster, British cartoonist, writer, stage designer and art critic.
Great Britain
1906
Sydney Central Railway Station opened.
Australia
1901
Birth of Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter
1900
Birth of Elizabeth Bowes Lyons, Queen Consort of George VI
Great Britain
1870
Birth of Sir Harry Lauder
Great Britain
1859
Birth of Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer
Norway
1834
Birth of John Venn, British logician who developed the Venn diagram
Great Britain
1821
Birth of Louis Vuitton, French designer.
France
1792
Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Great Britain
1704
British take Gibraltar
Great Britain
1693
Champagne invented by Dom Pierre Pérignon, a Benedictine monk, although in his day it was not a sparkling wine.
France
1265
Battle of Evesham, the decisive engagement that spelt the end of Simon de Montfort's rebellion.
Great Britain
0070
The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem
Israel
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