1914<\/strong> – Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – The first radio broadcast of a tennis match occurred. It was in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The death of Alexander Graham Bell, two days earlier, was recognized by AT&T and the Bell Systems by shutting down all of its switchboards and switching stations. The shutdown affected 13 million phones.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Mel Ott became the first major league baseball player to score six runs in a single game.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – William Herz became the first person to race a motorcycle over 200 miles per hour. He was clocked at 210 mph.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – Florence Chadwick set a world record by swimming the English Channel in 6 hours and 7 minutes.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – Juan Fangio won his final auto race and captured the world auto-driving championship. It was his fifth consecutive year to win.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Billboard Magazine introduced its “Hot 100” chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number-one song was Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.”<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Carter\u00a0signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for “causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.”<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Carl Lewis won a gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Upper Volta, an African republic, changed its name to Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox achieved his 300th victory.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Rod Carew of the California Angels got his 3,000th major league hit.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The United States Football League called off its 1986 season. This was after winning only token damages in its antitrust lawsuit against the National Football League.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – A new 22-cent U.S. stamp honoring noted author William Faulkner, went on sale in Oxford, MS. Faulkner had been fired as postmaster of that same post office in 1924.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to assist end the hostage crisis in Lebanon.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich Kuwait.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The\u00a0Oceanos<\/i>, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa’s southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs. The border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia was sealed.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Josia Thugwane won a gold medal after finishing first in the marathon. He became the first black South African to win a gold medal.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Teamsters began a 15-day strike against UPS (United Parcel Service). The strikers eventually won an increase in full-time positions and defeated a proposed reorganization of the company’s pension plan.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> – NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft was launched on a space exploration mission of Mars. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardoned two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry earlier in the year.<\/p>\n History of 4 August 1914 – Britain declared war on Germany. 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