August 4

Today in History
• 1558 - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
• 1666 - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St Christopher; thousands die
• 1753 - George Washington becomes a master mason
• 1790 - United States Revenue Cutter Service is established
• 1821 - 1st edition of American magazine "The Saturday Evening Post"
• 1830 - Plans for city of Chicago laid out
• 1862 - US government collects its 1st income tax
• 1870 - British Red Cross Society forms


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Assistance Dog Day
• Cook Islands Constitution Day
• Founder's Day
• Hooray for Kids Day
• International Clouded Leopard Day
• Matice Slovenska Day
• U.S. Coast Guard Birthday
• Umuganura Day

Birthdays
• 1281 - Külüg Khan, Chinese Prince of Huaining, 3rd Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
• 1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria
• 1687 - Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz
• 1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
• 1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte, French painter and inventor (modern pencil)
• 1815 - Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine
• 1823 - Oliver Hazard Perry Morton, Indiana Governor 1961 - 1967, Republian
• 1900 - Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife