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Coast Guard Day (United States)

On August 4, in the year 0, Coast Guard Day (United States). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of August 4, one of 382 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Coast Guard Day is held every August 4 to commemorate the founding of the United States Coast Guard as the Revenue-Marine on August 4, 1790, by then-Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. On that date, U.S. Congress, guided by Hamilton, authorized the building of a fleet of the first ten Revenue Service cutters, whose responsibility would be enforcement of the first tariff laws enacted by the U.S. Congress under the U.S. Constitution.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on August 4, 0 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 4 September 2025.

On This Date in History 382

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2024 Aug 4 Charles Cyphers, American actor (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2024 Aug 4 Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2024 Aug 4 Duane Thomas, American football player (born 1947)
Notable Deaths 2023 Aug 4 Dalia Fadila, Israeli educator (born 1971/1972)
Historical Events 2020 Aug 4 Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate…
Selected Events 2020 Aug 4 A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused…
Historical Events 2019 Aug 4 Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass…
Notable Deaths 2019 Aug 4 Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)
Historical Events 2018 Aug 4 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the…
Historical Events 2018 Aug 4 Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while…
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 4 Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 4 Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 4 John Rudometkin, American basketball player (born 1940)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 4 Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 4 James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (born 1940)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 4 Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 4 Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)
Selected Events 2014 Aug 4 Julieka Ivanna Dhu, an Aboriginal Australian woman, died in police custody after her deteriorating condition was…
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 4 Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 4 Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 4 Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 4 Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2011 Aug 4 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (born 1977)
Notable Deaths 2009 Aug 4 Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 4 Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (born 1985)
Historical Events 2007 Aug 4 NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 4 Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 4 Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)
Selected Events 2007 Aug 4 An airport police officer discovered a suitcase containing approximately US$800,000 as it passed through security at…
Historical Events 2006 Aug 4 A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against…
Selected Events 2006 Aug 4 Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred…
Notable Deaths 2005 Aug 4 Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2005 Aug 4 Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 4 Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 4 Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2003 Aug 4 Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 1999 Aug 4 Victor Mature, American actor (born 1913)
Notable Births 1998 Aug 4 Lil Skies, American rapper
Notable Deaths 1998 Aug 4 Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 1997 Aug 4 Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
Selected Events 1997 Aug 4 French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years, 164 days, with the longest confirmed human…
Notable Deaths 1996 Aug 4 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (born 1936)
Historical Events 1995 Aug 4 Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins.
Notable Births 1995 Aug 4 Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
Selected Events 1995 Aug 4 Yugoslav Wars: The Croatian Army initiated Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence…

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