August 4 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Friday, August 4, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International Clouded Leopard Day.
🌏 International Working Single Women's Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇦🇺 Australia - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso - Revolution Day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela - National Guard Day.
🇺🇸 USA - Coast Guard Day.
🇸🇰 Slovakia - Slovak Matica Day.
🇬🇭 Ghana - Founder's Day.
🇷🇼 Rwanda - Umuganura (harvest).
🇨🇰 Cook Islands - Constitution Day.
🇧🇲 Bermuda - Mary Prince Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 424 — Liu Ilun becomes the 3rd Emperor of Southern Sun after his nephew Liu Yifu is assassinated.
- 1326 - Uspensky church was started to be built in Moscow.
- 1578 - The King of Portugal was lost in the Battle of the Three Kings in Africa.
- 1662 - "Copper Rebellion" took place in Moscow.
- 1791 - Turkish-Habsburg war began.
-1836 - Bells were installed in the Kremlin.
- 1897 - Alsace and Lorraine was taken over by Germany.
— 1912 — The first passengers flew over the English Channel. There were only 2 passengers.
- 1914 - Great Britain declares war on Germany (World War I).
- 1914 - USA declares neutrality (World War I).
— 1922 — Funeral of telephone inventor Alexander Bell. 1 million phones were down in the US for 13 minute.
- 1962 - the leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, was imprisoned and released after 28 years.
— 1989 — "Railway Technology" museum was opened in Tashkent.
- 1995 - Operation "Storm" began, which ended the Republic of Serbian Kraina and the Republic of Western Bosnia.
- 1964 - USA started dropping bombs on North Vietnam.
- 1984 - The African state of Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso.
— 1988 — Afghan war — 1979-1989: Rutskoi plane was shot down.
— 1999 — diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and the Republic of Mauritius.
— 2002 — Zahir Shah, the former king of Afghanistan, returned to the palace he left 29 years ago.
— 2007 — The American Mars probe AMS Phoenix was launched from Cape Canaveral using a Delta-2 rocket.
— 2020 — An explosion occurred in the port of Beirut.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- 1821 - Louis Vuitton (1892) - French designer.
- 1834 - John Venn (1923) - American biologist.
- 1859 - Knut Hamsun (1952) - Norwegian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1920).
— 1895 — Shermuhammadov Mirmuhsin (1929) — one of the founders of the Uzbek press, journalist, writer.
— 1901 — Louis Armstrong (1971) — American jazz singer.
— 1915 — Igor Savitsky (1984) — graphic artist, honored artist of Uzbekistan, People's Artist of Karakalpakstan.
— 1929 — Yasir Arafat (2004) — chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1940 - Jamshed Karimov - Prime Minister of Tajikistan (1992-1996).
— 1960 — Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero — Prime Minister of Spain (2004-2011).
- 1961 - Barack Obama - the 44th president of the USA.
— 1969 — Ulugbek Soliboyev — public figure of Uzbekistan.
- 1983 - Aida Khasanova - Uzbek fencer and international fencer.
- 1985 - Luis Antonio Valencia - Manchester United midfielder.
— 1992 — Tiffany Evans is an American actress and singer.