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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1356" title="1356">1356</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Prince%27s_chevauch%C3%A9e_of_1356" title="Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356">A large-scale mounted raid</a></b> by Anglo-Gascon forces began under the command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Black_Prince" title="Edward the Black Prince">Edward the Black Prince</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783" title="1783">1783</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Asama" title="Mount Asama">Mount Asama</a></b> in Japan began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenmei_eruption" title="Tenmei eruption">a climactic eruption</a></b>, which exacerbated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tenmei_famine" title="Great Tenmei famine">Great Tenmei famine</a> and led to thousands of deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892" title="1892">1892</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden" title="Lizzie Borden">Lizzie Borden</a></b><span class="nowrap">'s</span> father and stepmother were found murdered in their home in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_River,_Massachusetts" title="Fall River, Massachusetts">Fall River, Massachusetts</a>; Borden was later tried and acquitted for the murders.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a> – President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin" title="Idi Amin">Idi Amin</a> announced the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda" title="Expulsion of Asians from Uganda">expulsion of Asians from Uganda</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Ou%C3%A9draogo" title="Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo">Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo</a>, the president of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Upper_Volta" title="Republic of Upper Volta">Upper Volta</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état">was ousted in a coup d'état</a></b> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara">Thomas Sankara</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Zhen" title="Lady Zhen">Lady Zhen</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 221); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1792); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbert_Lancaster" title="Osbert Lancaster">Osbert Lancaster</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1908); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarito_Bautista" title="Margarito Bautista">Margarito Bautista</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1961)</p>
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