August 4 is:
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Per Wikipedia: The chocolate chip cookie was invented by American chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938. Wakefield invented the recipe during the period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts. In this era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant that featured home cooking. It is often incorrectly reported that she accidentally developed the cookie, and that she expected the chocolate chunks would melt, making chocolate cookies. In fact, she stated that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, “We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I came up with Toll House cookie.” She added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie. The original recipe in Toll House Tried and True Recipes is called “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies”. Wakefield gave Nestle the recipe for her cookies and was paid with a lifetime supply of chocolate from the company.
Coast Guard Day, anniversary of the establishment in 1790 of the Revenue Cutter Service. It merged with the Life Saving Service in 1915 to become the United States Coast Guard.
In 1873, while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashed for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side was killed.
Birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792), one of the major English Romantic poets and regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language.
The Saturday Evening Post was published for the first time as a weekly newspaper in 1821.
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The case was memorialized in a popular skipping-rope rhyme:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
In reality, Lizzie’s stepmother suffered 18 or 19 blows; her father suffered 11 blows. Lizzie was acquitted of the murders on June 20, 1893.
Birthday of Barack Hussein Obama (August 4, 1961), 44th President of the United States.
It is also the birthday of Bret Baier (August 4, 1970)!
U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the United States Department of Energy in 1977.
On this date in 1984, Upper Volta’s name was changed to Burkina Faso. (For fans of Tucker Carlson’s Final Exam, the Capital is Ouagadougou.)
On August 4, 1988, Congress voted $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned during WW II.
So, the Lizzie Borden case went unsolved?
As far as I know, the murders were never solved. Lizzie Borden died in 1927.