August 4

Jazz legend Louis Armstrong born (1901); Anne Frank and family are captured after two years hiding from Nazis (1944); President Barack Obama born (1961); Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, born (1981); Rwanda peace treaty signed (1993).

August 3

Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first trans-Atlantic voyage from Spain (1492); Former US Vice President Aaron Burr goes on trial for treason (1807); US businesswoman Martha Stewart born (1941); NBA was formed as a merger of two leagues (1949); Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies (2008)