August 4 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2007 — NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched. ↗
• 2006 — A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known... ↗
• 1995 — Operation Storm begins in Croatia. ↗
• 1993 — A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating... ↗
• 1987 — The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
• 1994 — Pauli Pauli, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 — Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 — Cole Sprouse, American actor