| General Information for August 4th 2018 |
| There are 2 public holidays today. |
| Day 216 of 2018 |
| 149 days left in 2018 |
| Week 31 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2007 - NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched. |
| 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. |
| 1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine. |
| 367 - Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight. |