Associated Press

On Aug. 4, 1790, the U.S. Coast Guard had its beginnings as President George Washington signed a measure for a group of revenue cutters to enforce tariff and trade laws and prevent smuggling.

In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

In 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam.

In 1960, Burkina Faso declared its independence from France.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

In 2020, nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded; it was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded.