Daily Calendar for August 4th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1060s

• Died 1060: King Henry I of France

1730s

• 1735: In a triumph for freedom of the press, newspaperman John Peter Zenger was acquitted of the charge of seditious libel

1750s

• 1753: George Washington became a Master Mason

1760s

• 1769: What is now Prince Edward Island became separate from Nova Scotia

1820s

• 1821: The Saturday Evening Post was published for the first time as a weekly newspaper

1870s

• Died 1875: Hans Christian Andersen (writer)

1880s

• 1882: Aurora visible in much of the United States

• 1884: Thomas Stevens was the first to bicycle across the United States, leaving San Francisco on April 22 and arriving on this day in Boston to complete his transcontinental trip.

1890s

• 1892: The family of Lizzie Borden was found murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts

1900s

• Born 1901: Louis Armstrong (musician)

1910s

• Born 1910: William Howard Schuman (composer)

• 1914: Canada entered WWI

1930s

• Died 1938: Pearl White (actress)

1940s

• 1944: The Gestapo found Anne Frank

1950s

• Born 1955: Billy Bob Thornton (actor)

1960s

• Born 1961: Barack Obama (44th U.S. president)

• Born 1962: Roger Clemens (baseball player)

• 1964: Three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner) were found murdered outside Philadelphia, Mississippi

1970s

• Born 1971: Jeff Gordon (race car driver)

• 1972: Major geomagnetic storm

• 1977: President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the United States Department of Energy

• Born 1978: Kurt Busch (race car driver)

1980s

• Died 1981: Melvyn Douglas (actor)

1990s

• Born 1992: Dylan and Cole Sprouse (actors)

2000s

• 2007: Phoenix Mars Lander launched, Cape Canaveral, Florida