Today in History

August 4

1870 - The British Red Cross Society is founded.

1902 - The Greenwich foot tunnel under River Thames opens. 1914 - Britain declares war on Germany.

1940 - Latvia becomes a constituent republic of the Soviet Union

1971 - US Apollo 15 spacecraft heads back to Earth after a sixday mission exploring Moon.

1990 - 12 nations of European Community ban oil imports, embargo arms and suspend most trade with Iraq after invasion of Kuwait.

2002 - Bolivia’s Congress selects Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada as the country’s next president.

2015 - A three-storey building collapses in Thane township, Mumbai, killing at least 12 people.

2019 - A gunman in body armour opened fire at a popular bar in Ohio, US, killing nine people.