United States anniversaries
- 1790 – At the behest of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Congress creates the Revenue Cutter Service, a forerunner of the United States Coast Guard, to combat smuggling in American waters.
- 1901 – Louis Armstrong (pictured), an influential pioneer of both jazz and scat singing, is born.
- 1964 – The United States Navy destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. The so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident would lead to an escalation of the Vietnam War.
- 1969 – At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Xuân Thủy begin secret peace negotiations in an attempt to end the Vietnam War. The negotiations will eventually fail.
- 1977 – President Jimmy Carter signs legislation establishing the United States Department of Energy.
- 2010 – California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that was passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
Usage
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United States anniversaries by month
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- Daily U.S. portal "Anniversaries" pages, such as Portal:United States/Anniversaries/August/August 4.
- Daily U.S. portal "On this day" pages, such as Portal:United States/On this day/August 4.
- Yearly "...in the United States" articles, such as 2024 in the United States.
- Day of the month articles, such as August 4.
- Month of the year articles, such as August 2024.
- Year articles, such as 2024.
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