WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. AUGUST
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The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. (4. August 1902)

Central railway station, Sydney opens. (4. August 1906)

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality. (4. August 1914)

World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915. (4. August 1915)

Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established. (4. August 1924)

Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime. (4. August 1936)

The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. (4. August 1944)

An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. (4. August 1946)

The Supreme Court of Japan is established. (4. August 1947)

The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time. (4. August 1958)

American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. (4. August 1964)

Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. (4. August 1964)

The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand. (4. August 1965)

Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. (4. August 1969)

A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22. (4. August 1974)

The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. (4. August 1975)

U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. (4. August 1977)

The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. (4. August 1984)

The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly". (4. August 1987)

The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. (4. August 1991)