August 4: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. In 1693, Dom Perignon invented champagne.
2. In 1777, retired British cavalry officer, Phillip Astley, established the first modern circus.
3. In 1862, the United States government collected income tax for the first time.
4. In 1922, female first baseman, Lizzie Murphy, played on the AL all-star team.
5. In 1936, Jesse Owens wins his second of four gold metals in the long jump at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
6. In 1944, Anne Frank and her family were arrested in Amsterdam, Holland, by the Nazis. Her diary was later published.
7. In 1956, Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog".
8. In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, bodies were discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
9. In 1969, secret negotiations begin in Paris, between the United States and North Vietnam, but fail to acheive a mutual troop withdrawal from South Vietnam.
10. In 1974, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill establishing the Department of Energy.
11. Famous Birthdays: President Barack Obama, Louis Armstrong (jazz musician), Percy Bysshe Shelley (English poet), Raoul Wallenberg (humanitarian), Dylan & Cole Sprouse (actors), Yassir Arafat (PLO leader)

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