(+) 228th Pope Urbanus VII originally Giovanni Battista Castagna, is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
(x) 55-year-old Benedictine Monk Dom Pérignon invents Champagne in Epernay, Abbey of Hautvilliers, France.
258 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 August 1755
(+) Artist and inventor of the pencil Nicolas-Jacques Conté is born in Saint-Céneri-près-Sées, France.
221 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 August 1792
(+) Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Horsham, England.
154 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 August 1859
(+) Writer Knut Hamsun is born in Lom, Norway.
138 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 August 1875
(-) Writer Hans Christian Andersen dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 August 1892
(-) Andrew Borden is and his wife Abby are presumably hacked to death by Lizzie Borden at the age of 70 in Fall River, 92 Second Street, Massachusetts, United States.
116 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 August 1897
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is arrested after an attempt to kill a woman in the Bois des Pelleries, France.
112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 August 1901
(+) Musician Louis Daniel Armstrong aka Satchmo, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 August 1906
(x) 350 Die in Sirio shipwreck in Cape Palos, Italy.
69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 August 1944
(x) 15-year-old Writer Anne Annelies Marie Frank is discovered in a hideout in Amsterdam, Prinsengracht, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
The whole family is transported to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen KZ.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 August 1947
(+) Composer Klaus Schulze aka Richard Wahnfried, is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 August 1961
(+) 44th and first Black President of the USA Barack Hussein Obama II is born in Honolulu, Hawaï, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 August 1962
(-) Mass murderer Ray Lanker commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 14 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
First he killed his father, mother, brother and sister.
51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 August 1962
(x) 16-year-old Mass murderer Hugh Paulsen shoots his neighbours; husband, wife and 3 children in Brookings, South Dakota, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 August 1965
(-) Zofia W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 22 in Lagisza, Poland.
She survived.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 August 1974
(x) Fascists bomb the Rome-München Italicus express-train in San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 August 1975
(x) Revolutionary Japanese Red Army takes over 50 hostages including the U.S. consul in Kuala Lumpur, AIA Building, Malaysia.
They win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 August 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts his performance "11 Days" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
It lasted 11 days.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 August 1999
(-) Murderer Ricky Blackmon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 August 2007
(-) Musician Lee Hazlewood dies of renal cancer at the age of 78 in Henderson, Nevada, United States.
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