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Lombok earthquake damage

• A 6.4 magnitude earthquake (damage pictured) strikes Lombok, Indonesia, killing at least 16 people.
• In cycling, Geraint Thomas wins the Tour de France.
• Following allegations of sexual misconduct, American Archbishop
  Theodore McCarrick becomes the first cleric to resign from the College of Cardinals
  since 1927.
• The longest total lunar eclipse in the 21st century occurs.
• $71.3 billion acquisition by The Walt Disney Company
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August 4: Constitution Day in the Cook Islands (1965)

Capture of Gibraltar

• 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar (pictured) from Spain.
• 1783 – An eruption of Mount Asama, one of the most active volcanoes in Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated a famine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths.
• 1914 – World War I: Adhering to the terms in the 1839 Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the latter's invasion of Belgium.
• 1964 – A second U.S. Navy destroyer was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading Congress to authorize the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
• 1995 – The Croatian Army initiated Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and the largest European land battle since the Second World War.

Henry I of France (d. 1060) · John Venn (b. 1834) · David Lange (b. 1942)