It happened on this day, August 4th.
events:
1578 – The Saadians eliminate the Portuguese presence in Morocco after their victory at the Battle of Wadi al-Makhzen.
1909 – The Swedish general strike begins.
1914 – The United Kingdom declares war on Germany and the United States becomes neutral in World War I.
1933 – The first issue of the Moroccan newspaper “Amal Al-Shaab” is published.
1984 – Upper Volta takes Burkina Faso as the new name for the republic.
1988 – American scientists discover 17 new types of HIV.
1990 – Iraq announces the creation of the Republic of Kuwait under the Free Kuwaiti Interim Government led by Alaa Hussein, following the Iraqi invasion of August 2.
2000 – Celebrations sweep across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Mother. Queen Elizabeth is considered the first member of the royal family to celebrate her 100th birthday.
2007 – NASA's “Phoenix” spacecraft is launched.
2010 – Launch of the Egyptian satellite Nilesat 201.
2013 – Massacres took place in several villages in rural Latakia during an attack by forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Al-Nusra Front and other factions, including Ahrar Al-Sham, the Army of Al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and the Ezz Forces.
✴️ Human Rights Watch later said that about 190 civilians were killed (including many women and children) and about 200 were kidnapped in the attack.
2017 – Paul Kagame was re-elected to a third presidential term in the 2017 Rwandan presidential election with 98.7% of the vote.
✴️ Brazilian player Neymar has left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in a record deal that reached 222 million euros.
2019 – A large explosion outside the National Cancer Institute in central Cairo killed 20 people and injured 47 others, and there was disagreement over who caused it or who carried it out.
✴️ French inventor Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on a hoverboard in the first incident in history, having covered the distance from France to the UK in 22 minutes.
2020 – A massive explosion in the port of Beirut caused enormous damage throughout Beirut, and its noise was heard in Lebanon's neighboring countries, leaving dozens dead and missing, thousands injured and hundreds of thousands displaced.
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Births:
1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet.
1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist and mathematician.
1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.
1900 – Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI of the United Kingdom.
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz singer and musician.
1908 – Bahiga Hafez, Egyptian actress, director and writer.
1921 – Ibrahim Jalal, Iraqi actor.
1929 – Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1994.
1930 – Sayyed Ali al-Sistani, Shia religious authority.
1937 – Thierry Rolland, French sports commentator.
1940 – Abdullah Al-Muzaini, Saudi actor.
1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician.
1946 – Pierre-André Taghiev, French philosopher.
1947 – Klaus Schulze, German musician.
1948 – Saeed Al-Saleh, Egyptian actor.
1950 – Sheikha Hessa Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, President of the Arab Businesswomen Council.
1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer.
1960 – José Luis Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister.
1961 – Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
1963 – Keith Ellison, American politician.
1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden.
1968 – Tariq Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor. Daniel D'Kim, American actor.
1970 – Farah, Jordanian actress working in Egypt.
1974 – Omar Al-Qazzabri, Imam of the Hassan II Mosque.
** Muqtada al-Sadr, Shiite cleric and leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq.
1975: Nikos Leperopoulos, Greek footballer.
1976 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese singer. Hitomi Nabatami, Japanese actress.
1977 – Luis Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer.
1978 – Satoshi Hino, Japanese voice actor.
1985 – Ahmed Matar, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Mark Milligan, Australian footballer.
** Luis Valencia, Ecuadorian footballer.
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Death:
1060 – King Henry I, King of France.
1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer.
1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military commander.
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress.
2003 – Frederick Robbins, American physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1954.
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer.
2020 – Nizar Najarian, Lebanese politician and businessman.
2021 – Fathia Tantawi, Egyptian actress.
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Public holidays and occasions:
National holiday in Burkina Faso.
