What happend on 4th August

03.08
05.08
1969

Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

1964

American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

1947

The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

1944

Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

1914

World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.

1902

Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.

1892

The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.

1873

Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).

1854

The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

1824

Battle of Cos fought between Turks and Greeks.