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4 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1929 Actor, singer, director Kishore Kumar was born.
- 1956 Apsara, the country's first nuclear research reactor, started.
- 1967 Construction of Nagarjunasagar, the world's longest masonry dam was completed. Water was let into the Right Canal by Smt. Indira Gandhi.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1181 Supernova SN 1181 in the constellation Cassiopeia observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers, lasting until August 6. A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion.
- 1821 First edition of American magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1855 John Bartlett, a Cambridge bookseller, published the first edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
- 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author, died. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales like The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling.
- 1914 In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Great Britain entered World War I, declaring war on Germany.
- 1944 The secret annex in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and seven others were hiding was discovered by the Gestapo; all were sent to concentration camps, with only Otto Frank surviving.
- 1946 The League of Nations, the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, assembled for the last time. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
- 2006 Australian wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin, who achieved worldwide fame as the exuberant and risk-taking host of The Crocodile Hunter (1992–2006) TV series and related documentaries, was killed by a venomous bull stingray.
- 2007 The U.S. space probe Phoenix was launched, and a year later it landed on Mars.
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