Year 1854
Official use of the Hinomaru flag by Japanese ships.
AUGUST 4
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4 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 4 August.
Year 1870
The British Government established the British Red Cross Society.
Year 1873
American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
Year 1914
World War I – Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. The United States declared itself neutral.
Year 1914
England declared war against Germany.
Year 1914
Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps.
Year 1923
Nagpur University started working.
Year 1933
Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order.
Year 1935
The government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935.
Year 1936
Indian Government Act was approved by the king.
Year 1947
The Supreme Court was established in Japan.
Year 1956
India’s sixth nuclear power plant, Apsara, was commissioned at Bhabha Atomic Power Station, Turbhe. It was India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
Year 1967
World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
Year 1979
Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
Year 1997
Maharashtra govt. decides against banning Arun Shourie's book ''Worshipping False Gods'' on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
Year 1997
Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
Year 1997
Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose "should be treated as cancelled", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
Year 2000
Justice Brij Mohan Lal was sworn in chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.
Year 2000
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.
Year 2000
Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.
Year 2001
India’s first skin bank, which donates posthumous skin and gives life to others, was established at Lokmanya Tilak Hospital in Mumbai.
Year 2007
NASA launched Phoenix Spacecraft.
Born 1522
Udai Singh II, the Maharana of Mewar and the founder of the city of Udaipur.
Born 1730
Sadashivrao Peshwa, the Sardar Senapati of the Maratha army at the third battle of Panipat
Born 1845
Pherozeshah Mehta, an Indian politician, and lawyer. He published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress.
Born 1875
Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson was born. He was famous for writing beautiful stories for children.
Born 1888
Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
Born 1894
Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat.
Born 1906
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
Born 1928
Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born.
Born 1929
Kishore Kumar Ganguly, an Indian playback singer, actor, music director, lyricist, writer, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is also remembered as a comic actor, director and musician.
Born 1931
Narendra Shankar Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
Born 1944
Dilip Prabhavalkar, an Indian actor, director, playwright, and author.
Born 1950
N. Rangaswamy, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of Puducherry
Born 1961
America's first black and 44th President Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
Born 1965
Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer
Born 1967
Arbaaz Khan, an Indian actor, director, and film producer.
Born 1972
Balkrishna, an Indian billionaire businessman and chairman of the consumer goods company Patanjali Ayurved.
Born 1978
Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
Died 1875
H.C. Andersen, a Danish author.
Died 1937
Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, famous lawyer, philosopher, ancient researcher and eminent historian
Died 1993
Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego.
Died 1993
Tarabai Bapat, daughter-in-law of revolutionary Senapati Bapat, died.
Died 2006
Nandini Satpathy, an Indian politician and author and former chief minister of Odisha.
Died 2015
John Rudometkin, American basketball player (b. 1940)
Died 2015
Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (b. 1936)
Died 2015
Alfred C. Williams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
Died 2019
Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (b. 1926)