August 04

Friday 04, 1995:

Operation Storm begins in Croatia.

Monday 04, 1947:

The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

Friday 04, 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.

Wednesday 04, 1790:

A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

Friday 04, 1578:

Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.