August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years ), 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 August 7.
Events
1600-1899
1900_1999 1927 - Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York .1942 - World War II : Battle of Guadalcanal begins - Solomon Islands .1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator , the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I ).1947 - Thor Heyerdahl 's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki , smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 7 000 km (4,300 mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America .1953 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803 .1959 - Explorer program : The United States launches Explorer 6 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.1967 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam and undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.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 1989 - US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia .1990 - At 12:34:56 PM the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.1997 - Fine Air Flight 101, a cargo flight from Miami to Santo Domingo crashes onto NW 72nd Ave near Miami International Airport, killing five people.1998 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings : Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , and Nairobi , Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899 1560 - Elizabeth Bathory , serial killer (d. 1614 )1598 - Georg Stiernhielm , poet1742 - Nathanael Greene , American Revolutionary War general (d. 1786 )1779 - Carl Ritter , cofounder of modern science of geography (d. 1859 )1836 - Evander Law, Confederate General1867 - Emil Nolde , painter (d. 1956 )1876 - Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), spy (d. 1917 )1877 - Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater1883 - Joachim Ringelnatz, writer (d. 1934 )1885 - Billie Burke , actress, The Wizard of Oz 1970 )1890 - Gurley Flynn, politician (d. 1964 )
1900-1999 1904 - Ralph Bunche , Nobel Peace Prize recipient1904 - Hanna Melzer, activist against Nazism (d. 1960 ) 1926 - Stan Freberg , cartoon and commercial voice, comedian1927 - Carl Alfalfa Switzer, actor (d. 1959 )1928 - James Randi , magician1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk 1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium 1942 - Garrison Keillor , radio host1942 - B.J. Thomas , singer 1945 - Alan Page , Pro Football Hall of Famer 1949 - Walid Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze 1958 - Bruce Dickinson , singer1960 - David Duchovny , actor1966 - Jimmy Wales , founder of Wikipedia 1975 - Charlize Theron , actress
Deaths 461 - Majorian , Roman Emperor (assassinated)1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard , inventor of the Jacquard loom 1848 - Jons Jacob Berzelius , Swedish chemist1855 - Mariano Arista , president of Mexico 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke , musician1941 - Rabindranath Tagore , author1957 - Oliver Hardy , comedian, actor1995 - Brigid Brophy , British author2004 - Red Adair , American oil well firefighter
Holidays and observances August 6 - August 8 - July 7 - September 7 -- listing of all days
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Today in History: August 7 (397 words)
Closely associated with General George Washington during the war, the subsequent artistic expression of John Trumbull (1756-1843) was largely dedicated to commemorating the great events and individuals of the American Revolution. Revolutionary war hero Nathanael Greene was born on August 7 , 1742 , in Potowomut, Rhode Island. Appointed to the rank of major general in 1776, Greene is best known for his astuteness as commander in chief of the southern army, a position he assumed in 1780.
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