What happened on 4 August?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 70 Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem Titus's legions destroy the Temple.
2. 1914 German invasion of Belgium Schlieffen Plan executed; Germany violates Belgian neutrality.
3. 1914 Britain declares war on Germany Britain enters WW1 in response to invasion of Belgium.
4. 1961 Born: Barack Obama 44th US president; two-term Democrat, first African-American to hold the office.
5. 1789 France abolishes feudalism in a single night In one delirious night session, the National Assembly's noble deputies compete to renounce their own privileges — feudal dues, church tithes, venal offices, seigneurial courts. A s
6. 2020 Beirut port explosion Massive ammonium nitrate explosion devastates Beirut.
7. 1944 The Frank family is arrested After 761 days hidden in the annex on the Prinsengracht, the eight people sheltering there are betrayed — by whom has never been established — and deported on the last train to lea
8. 1981 Born: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex American-born wife of Prince Harry.
9. 1950 Pusan Perimeter defended UN and South Korean forces hold a last defensive line in the southeast against the North Korean advance.
10. 1901 Born: Louis Armstrong Trumpeter and singer who took jazz from New Orleans to the world.
11. 1995 Operation Storm Croatia retakes the Krajina in four days, effectively ending its war; some 200,000 Serbs flee in the largest single displacement of the Yugoslav wars.
12. 1914 Suffragettes suspend militant campaign Conventional end of Suffragette movement intensifies.
13. 1701 Great Peace of Montreal France and thirty-nine First Nations — the Iroquois included — sign a general peace at Montreal, ending the Beaver Wars with diplomacy the treaties that followed rarely matched.
14. 1704 British capture of Gibraltar An Anglo-Dutch force seizes the Rock during the War of the Spanish Succession; ceded at Utrecht, it guards the Mediterranean gate ever after.