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August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year.
The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.
Events
322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great .1461 – the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor .1606 – The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court .1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon , commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River , to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America .1714 – The Battle of Gangut : the first important victory of the Russian Navy .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.1791 – United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War .1794 – The Whiskey Rebellion begins: farmers in the Monongahela Valley 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 .1889 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, this for the 1889 Yngsjö murder .1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie , Ontario and Buffalo , New York .1933 – The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail . The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day .1940 – Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II 1942 – World War II : the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi 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 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces the 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 in an attempt to prove 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 radios in Japan .1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.1959 – Explorer program : Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral , Florida .
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.1964 – Vietnam War : the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.1965 – The infamous first party between Ken Kesey 's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hell's Angels takes place at Kesey 's estate in La Honda , California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels .1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing , Michigan .1967 – Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China 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.1974 – Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 ft (417.0 m) in the air.1976 – Viking program : Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars .1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal .1981 – The Washington Star 1985 – Takao Doi , Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts .1988 – Rioting in New York City 's Tompkins Square Park .1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX ) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia .2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron 's record by hitting his 756th home run .2008 – Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia , Tskhinvali , from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War .
Births
317 – Constantius II , Roman emperor (d. 361)1282 – Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)1533 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)1560 – Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian countess and 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)1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)1779 – Louis de Freycinet , French explorer (d. 1842)1779 – Carl Ritter , German geographer (d. 1859)
1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy , French geologist (d. 1911)1860 – Alan Leo , British astrologer (d. 1917)1862 – Victoria of Baden , Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)1867 – Emil Nolde , German painter (d. 1956)1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz , Russian mathematician (d. 1931)1876 – Mata Hari , Dutch spy (d. 1917)1877 – Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)1879 – Johannes Kotze , South African cricketer (d. 1931)1885 – Billie Burke , American actress (d. 1970)1901 – Ann Harding , American actress (d. 1981)1903 – Louis Leakey , British archaeologist (d. 1972)1904 – Ralph Bunche , American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)1907 – Albert Kotin , American abstract painter (d. 1980)1911 – Nicholas Ray , American director and scenarist (d. 1979)1918 – Gordon Zahn , American sociologist and pacifist (d. 2007)1913 – George Van Eps , American guitarist (d. 1998)1921 – Manitas de Plata , Gypsy guitarist1925 – M. S. Swaminathan , Indian scientist1925 – Felice Bryant , American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
1926 – Stan Freberg , American voice comedian1927 – Edwin W. Edwards , American politician1927 – Art Houtteman , American baseball player (d. 2003)
1927 – Carl Switzer , American child actor (d. 1959)
1928 – Romeo Muller , American screenwriter (d. 1992)1928 – James Randi , Canadian magician
1929 – Don Larsen , American baseball player1931 – Charles E. Rice , American legal scholar and author1932 – Abebe Bikila , Ethiopian athlete (d. 1973)1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr. , American ophthalmologist
1932 – Edward Hardwicke , British actor
1933 – Eddie Firmani , South African football player and coach1936 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk , American saxophonist (d. 1977)1937 – Don Wilson , England cricketer1939 – Anjanette Comer , American actress1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene , Belgian politician1942 – Tobin Bell , American actor1942 – Garrison Keillor , American writer and radio host
1942 – Carlos Monzón , Argentine boxer
1942 – B.J. Thomas , American singer
1942 – Caetano Veloso , Brazilian musician
1943 – Dino Valente , American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service ) (d. 1994)1943 – Alain Corneau , French film director
1944 – Robert Mueller , Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)1944 – David Rasche , American actor
1945 – Alan Page , American football player1946 – Ed Seykota , American commodities and futures trader 1947 – Franciscus Henri , Dutch-born Australian entertainer1948 – Greg Chappell , Australian cricketer and coach1948 – Marty Appel , American public relations executive and author
1949 – Walid Jumblatt , Lebanese political leader1950 – Alan Keyes , American diplomat and political activist1952 – Alexei Sayle , British comedian1953 – Anne Fadiman , American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman 1954 – Jonathan Pollard , Israeli spy1955 – Vladimir Sorokin , Russian writer1955 – Greg Nickels , American politician
1955 – Wayne Knight , American actor
1955 – Gregoris Valtinos , Greek actor and director
1957 – Alexander Dityatin , Soviet gymnast1958 – Bruce Dickinson , English singer (Iron Maiden )1958 – Alberto Salazar , American distance runner
1959 – Ali Shah , Zimbabwean cricketer1960 – David Duchovny , American actor1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan , British singer (Bananarama )
1961 – Yelena Davydova , Soviet gymnast1962 – Bruno Pelletier , Québécois singer1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy , son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy 1963 – Harold Perrineau Jr. , American actor1964 – Michael Weishan , American TV host1964 – John Birmingham , Australian author
1966 – Kristin Hersh , American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses )1966 – Jimmy Wales , American internet entrepreneur
1967 – Jason Grimsley , American baseball player1968 – Lynn Strait , American singer (Snot )1971 – Sydney Penny , American actress1971 – Rachel York , American actress and singer
1971 – Dominic Cork , England cricketer
1972 – Greg Serano , American actor1973 – Danny Graves , American baseball player1973 – Kevin Muscat , Australian footballer
1974 – Chico Benymon , American actor1974 – Sek Loso , Thai Singer.1975 – Edgar Rentería , Colombian baseball player1975 – David Hicks , Australian alleged terrorist
1975 – Charlize Theron , South African actress
1975 – Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
1975 – Koray Candemir , Turkish singer
1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos , Greek footballer1976 – Shane Lechler , American football player
1977 – Samantha Ronson , British DJ1977 – Charlotte Ronson , British fashion designer
1978 – Jamey Jasta , American singer (Hatebreed )1978 – Alexandre Aja , French director
1978 – Vanness Wu , Taiwanese singer
1978 – Cirroc Lofton , American actor
1978 – Shirley Yeung , Hong Kong actress
1979 – Eric Johnson , American actor1980 – Aurélie Claudel , French model1980 – Anomie Belle (Toby Campbell), American musician
1982 – Marco Melandri , Italian motorcycle racer1982 – Yana Klochkova , Ukrainian swimmer
1982 – Vasileios Spanoulis , Greek basketball player
1983 – Tina O'Brien , British actress1983 – Christian Chavez , Mexican singer and actor (RBD )
1987 – Sidney Crosby , Canadian hockey player1988 – Melody Oliveria , American internet blogger1996 – Tessa Allen , American actress
Deaths
461 – Majorian , Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)479 – Emperor Yūryaku of Japan1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)1485 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany , Scottish prince1613 – Thomas Fleming , English judge (b. 1544)1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi , Italian architect (b. 1548)1635 – Friedrich von Spee , German writer (b. 1591)1639 – Martin van den Hove , Dutch scientist (b. 1605)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)1864 – Li Xiucheng , late Taiping‘s Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)1893 – Alfredo Catalani , Italian musician (b. 1854)1912 – François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)1917 – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning , first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)1938 – Constantin Stanislavski , Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)1941 – Rabindranath Tagore , Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)1953 – Abner Powell , American baseball player (b. 1860)1957 – Oliver Hardy , American comedian and actor (b. 1892)1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo , Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)1969 – Joseph Kosma , French composer (Autumn Leaves ) (b. 1905)1970 – Jonathan Jackson , Brother of George Jackson , Black Panther (b. 1953)1972 – Joi Lansing , American model and actress (b. 1929)1973 – Jack Gregory , Former Australian cricketer (b. 1895)1974 – Rosario Castellanos , Mexican poet (b. 1925)1974 – Sylvio Mantha , professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1984 – Esther Phillips , American singer (b. 1935)1985 – Grayson Hall , American actress (b. 1923)1987 – Camille Chamoun , Lebanese President (b. 1900)1989 – Mickey Leland , American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)1991 – Billy T. James , New Zealand comedian, (b. 1944)1992 – John Anderson , American actor (b. 1922)1994 – Larry Martyn , comedy actor (b. 1934)1995 – Brigid Brophy , British author (b. 1929)1999 – Brion James , American actor (b. 1945)2003 – Mickey McDermott , baseball player (b. 1929)2004 – Red Adair , American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)2004 – Colin Bibby , English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2005 – Peter Jennings , Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)2006 – Mary Anderson Bain , American New Deal politician (b. 1911)2007 – Hal Fishman , Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)2007 – Ernesto Alonso , Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
2007 – Angus Tait , New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2008 – Bernie Brillstein , American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)2008 – Andrea Pininfarina , CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A. (b. 1957)
Holidays and observances
Roman Catholicism
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