^B{^#!16!4 August^N! Feast day of St Molua or Lughaidh, St Ia, St Sezni, and St John Baptist Vianney.
^B{1265^B} The Battle of Evesham took place, in which Simon de Montfort was defeated by Royalist forces led by the future King Edward I, during the Barons' War. ^B{1578^B} The Portuguese were defeated by the Berbers at the Battle of Alcazarquivir. ^B{1870^B} The British Red Cross Society was founded. ^B{1914^B} Britain declared war on Germany after the Germans had violated the Treaty of London, and World War I began. ^B{1918^B} The Second Battle of the Marne ended. ^B{1940^B} Italy invaded Kenya, the Sudan, and British Somaliland. ^B{1966^B} In a US radio interview, John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus Christ; Beatles records were consequently banned in many US states and in South Africa.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, ^B{1792^B}; William Henry Hudson, British writer and naturalist, ^B{1841^B}; Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, ^B{1859^B}; HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, ^B{1900^B}; Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist and writer, ^B{1908^B}; Peter Squires, English rugby player, ^B{1951^B}.^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Henry I, King of France, ^B{1060^B}; Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, ^B{1875^B}; James Cruze, US film director, ^B{1942^B}; Edgar Adrian, British physiologist, ^B{1977^B}; Pola Negri, German silent-film actress, ^B{1987^B}.
