August 4: Beginning of The Nine Days (Judaism, 2016); Constitution Day in the Cook Islands (1965)
Mount Asama
- 1783 – A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Asama (pictured), the most active volcano in Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated a famine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths.
- 1914 – First World War: Adhering to the terms in the 1839 Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the latter's invasion of Belgium.
- 1964 – A second US Navy destroyer was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading Congress to authorize the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
- 1983 – A coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré and supported by Libya made Thomas Sankara President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
- 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Seventeen employees of the French INGO ACF International were massacred in Muttur.
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