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August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in Leap Year s), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the Summer on this day.
Events
- 1679 - The Brigantine Le Griffon , commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur De La Salle , is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River , to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America .
- 1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge Of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart .
- 1789 - The United States War Department is established.
- of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on Liquor and distilled drinks.
- 1819 - Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle Of Boyacá .
- 1879 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester .
- 1927 - The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York .
- begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands .
- 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled Calculator , the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I ).
- 1945 - President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an Atomic Bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean .
- 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl 's Balsa Wood raft the Kon-Tiki , smashes into the Reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America .
- 1947 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply And Transport (BEST).
- 1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony , begins selling its first Transistor Radio s in Japan .
- launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida .
- 1960 - Côte D'Ivoire becomes independent.
- passes the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnam ese attacks on American forces.
- 1965 - Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation Of Malaysia .
- 1966 - Race Riot s occur in Lansing, Michigan .
- agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
- 1970 - California Judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
- 1973 - NBC airs the final day of the Watergate Hearings on U.S. daytime television.
- enters into orbit around Mars .
- 1978 - United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal .
- 1981 -'' The Washington Star '' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1985 - Takao Doi , Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first Astronaut s.
- 1988 - Rioting in New York City 's Tompkins Square Park
- 1989 - U.S. Congress man Mickey Leland (D- TX ) and 15 others die in a Plane Crash in Ethiopia .
- 1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
- 1995 - Operation Storm is officially declared over in Croatia , resulting in total Croat victory over rebel Serb forces.
- 1997 - Fine Air Flight 101, a cargo flight from Miami to Santo Domingo crashes onto NW 72nd Ave near Miami International Airport , killing five people.
- , Tanzania , and Nairobi , Kenya , kill 224 people and injure over 4,500.
- 1999 - A group of India n army veterans launch the Political Party Rashtriya Raksha Dal .
- 2000 - Deviantart was founded by Scott Jarkoff , Angelo Sotira , and Matthew Stephens .
- 2005 - Russia n Priz Class mini-submarine AS-28 and its seven crewmembers are rescued off the Pacific coast
Births
- 1400 - Guillaume Dufay , French composer (d. 1474 )
- 1533 - Alonso De Ercilla Y Zúñiga , Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595 )
- 1560 - Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614 )
- 1574 - Robert Dudley, Styled Earl Of Warwick , English writer (d. 1649 )
- 1598 - Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish poet (d. 1672 )
- 1726 - James Bowdoin , American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790 )
- 1742 - Nathanael Greene , American Revolutionary general (d. 1786 )
- 1779 - Louis De Freycinet , French explorer (d. 1842 )
- 1779 - Carl Ritter , German geographer (d. 1859 )
- 1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy , French geologist (d. 191 )
- 1860 - Alan Leo , British astrologer (d. 1917 )
- 1867 - Emil Nolde , German painter (d. 1956 )
- 1876 - Mata Hari , Dutch spy (d. 1917 )
- 1877 - Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (d. 1949 )
- 1885 - Billie Burke , American actress (d. 1970 )
- 1904 - Ralph Bunche , American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971 )
- 1925 - M. S. Swaminathan , Indian scientist
- 1925 - Felice Bryant , American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003 )
- 1926 - Stan Freberg , American voice comedian
- 1928 - James Randi , Canadian magician
- 1929 - Don Larsen , baseball player
- 1932 - Abebe Bikila , Ethiopan athlete
- 1932 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr. , African American opthalmologist
- 1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk , American saxophonist
- 1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene , Prime Minister Of Belgium
- 1942 - Garrison Keillor , American writer and radio host
- 1942 - B.J. Thomas , American singer
- 1943 - Dino Valente , American musician Quicksilver Messenger Service (d. 1994 )
- 1944 - David Rasche , American actor
- 1945 - Alan Page , American football player
- 1948 - Greg Chappell , Australian test cricket player, captain and coach
- 1949 - Walid Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze
- 1952 - Alexei Sayle , British 'alternate' comedian
- 1954 - Jonathan Pollard , Israely spier
- 1955 - Vladimir Sorokin , Russian writer
- 1957 - Alexander Dityatin , Soviet gymnast
- 1958 - Bruce Dickinson , English singer ( Iron Maiden )
- 1960 - David Duchovny , American actor
- 1961 - Yelena Davydova , Soviet gymnast
- 1963 - Harold Perrineau Jr. , American actor
- 1964 - Michael Weishan , American TV host, author
- 1966 - Jimmy Wales , American founder of Wikipedia
- 1973 - Danny Graves , American baseball player
- 1975 - Edgar Renteria , Colombian baseball player
- 1975 - David Hicks , Australian alleged terrorist
- 1975 - Charlize Theron , South African actress
- 1978 - Jamey Jasta , American Singer ( Hatebreed )
- 1982 - Yana Klochkova , Ukrainian swimmer
- 1987 - Sidney Crosby , Canadian hockey player
Deaths
- 461 - Majorian , Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420 )
- 479 - Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
- 1106 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050 )
- 1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke Of Albany , English prince
- 1613 - Thomas Fleming , English judge (b. 1544 )
- 1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi , Italian architect (b. 1548 )
- 1635 - Friedrich Von Spee , German writer (b. 1591 )
- 1661 - Jin Shengtan , Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608 )
- 1817 - Pierre Samuel Du Pont De Nemours , French industrialist (b. 1739 )
- 1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard , French weaver and inventor (b. 1752 )
- 1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Swedish chemist (b. 1779 )
- 1855 - Mariano Arista , President Of Mexico (b. 1802 )
- 1912 - François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841 )
- 1938 - Konstantin Stanislavski , Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. 1863 )
- 1941 - Rabindranath Tagore , Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861 )
- 1957 - Oliver Hardy , American comedian and actor (b. 1892 )
- 1974 - Rosario Castellanos , Mexican poet (b. 1925 )
- 1989 - Mickey Leland , U.S. Congress man (D- TX ) (b. 1944 )
- 1995 - Brigid Brophy , British author (b. 1929 )
- 1999 - Brion James , American actor (b. 1945 )
- 2004 - Red Adair , American firefighter (b. 1915 )
- 2004 - Colin Bibby , English ornithologist (b. 1948 )
- 2005 - Peter Jennings , Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938 )
Holidays and Observances
External links
August 6 - August 8 - July 7 - September 7 -- Listing Of All Days
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