This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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August 4th, 2007	Event	NASA s Phoenix spaceship is launched.
August 4th, 2007	Death	Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (born in 1929)
August 4th, 2006	Event	Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and was replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who was sworn in on 23 August.
August 4th, 2005	Event	Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean will be Canada s 27th - and first black - Governor General.
August 4th, 2005	Death	Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (born in 1932)
August 4th, 2003	Death	Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1916)
August 4th, 2002	Event	Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
August 4th, 2002	Death	Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (born in 1991, 1991)
August 4th, 2001	Death	Lorenzo Music, American actor (born in 1937)
August 4th, 2000	Death	Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (born in 1963)

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