August 4<\/p>\n
1463 \u2013 Patron of many great renaissance artists, Lorenzo de’ Medici is born in Florence, Italy<\/p>\n
1693 \u2013 Benedictine monk Dom Perignon invents champagne<\/p>\n
1704 \u2013 Gibraltar is captured from the Spanish by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 The Revenue Cutter Service, the predecessor to the Coast Guard is created<\/p>\n
1834 \u2013 English mathematician John Venn, inventor of the Venn Diagram<\/em>, using circles to denote sets, is born in Yorkshire, England.<\/p>\n 1873 \u2013 The 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Custer, has its first minor engagement with the Cheyenne and Lakota near the Tongue River in Montana, while protecting a railroad survey party<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013 The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The Germans invade neutral Belgium. In response Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 A Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Anne Frank and her family<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 U.S. destroyers USS Maddox<\/em> and USS Turner Joy<\/em> report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 President Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ which required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”. (AKA ‘Equal Time’)<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 NASA’s Phoenix<\/em> Mars probe spacecraft is launched.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Antifa supporter, 24 year old Connor Betts, kills 9 people and wounds another 26 before being engaged, 32 seconds after his first shot, and killed by Police in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 4 1463 \u2013 Patron of many great renaissance artists, Lorenzo de’ Medici is born in Florence, Italy 1693 \u2013 Benedictine monk Dom Perignon invents champagne 1704 \u2013 Gibraltar is captured from the Spanish by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke. 1790 \u2013 The Revenue Cutter Service, the predecessor to … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57733"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94919,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57733\/revisions\/94919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}