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Events on August 4

• 1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna.
• 1789 During the French Revolution, the National Assembly resolves to abolish all privileges of the nobility, clergy, cities, and provinces. Feudal rule and serfdom are abolished.
• 1914 After a fiery speech by Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Reichstag of the German Empire concludes the so-called "Burgfrieden" peace agreement and votes unanimously to authorize war loans.
• 1931 Kurt Tucholsky's famous statement "Soldiers are murderers" appears in the magazine Die Weltbühne.
• 1944 Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Nazis after a Dutch informer reveals her hiding place in Amsterdam.
• 1951 The Federal Motor Transport Authority is founded in Flensburg-Mürwik.
• 1956 The Zentralstadion in Leipzig is opened with a capacity of 100,000 seats as the largest stadium in the world to date.
• 1964 The Tonkin Incident, an alleged torpedo attack by North Vietnam on the two US military ships Maddox and Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin, later serves the United States as a pretext for intervention in the Vietnam War.
• 1971 In Munich, Dimitri Todorov and Hans Georg Rammelmayr commit the first bank robbery with hostage-taking in Germany. One hostage and one perpetrator are killed during the subsequent rescue operation.
• 1990 For the first time since the end of the Second World War, a Lufthansa aircraft again lands at East Berlin's Berlin-Schönefeld Airport.
• 2007 The NASA space probe Phoenix is launched to explore the planet Mars.
• 2020 In an explosion in Beirut, at least 207 people die and more than 6,500 people are injured.

Born on August 4

• 1859 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer
• 1890 Erich Weinert, German writer
• 1900 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, British Queen Mother
• 1901 Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician and singer
• 1930 Götz Friedrich, German director and theatre director
• 1960 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish jurist and former prime minister
• 1961 Barack Obama, American president and jurist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1980 Benjamin Köhler, German footballer
• 1991 Christian Clemens, German footballer
• 1991 Lena Dürr, German ski racer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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