August 7th All Events |
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| August 7th, 2007 (August 07 2007) | Event | Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron s record by hitting his 756th home run. | |
| August 7th, 2007 (August 07 2007) | Death | Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (born in 1931) | |
| August 7th, 2007 (August 07 2007) | Death | Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (born in 1917) | |
| August 7th, 2007 (August 07 2007) | Death | Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (born in 1919) | |
| August 7th, 2006 (August 07 2006) | Death | Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (born in 1911) | |
| August 7th, 2005 (August 07 2005) | Death | Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (born in 1938) | Peter Jennings Quotes |
| August 7th, 2004 (August 07 2004) | Death | Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (born in 1915) | |
| August 7th, 2004 (August 07 2004) | Death | Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (born in 1948) | |
| August 7th, 2003 (August 07 2003) | Death | Mickey McDermott, baseball player (born in 1929) | |
| August 7th, 1999 (August 07 1999) | Event | A group of Indian army veterans launch the political party Rashtriya Raksha Dal. | |
| August 7th, 1999 (August 07 1999) | Death | Brion James, American actor (born in 1945) | |
| August 7th, 1996 (August 07 1996) | Birth | Tessa Allen, American actress | |
| August 7th, 1995 (August 07 1995) | Death | Brigid Brophy, British author (born in 1929) | |
| August 7th, 1994 (August 07 1994) | Death | Larry Martyn, comedy actor (born in 1934) | |
| August 7th, 1992 (August 07 1992) | Death | John Anderson, American actor (born in 1922) | |
| August 7th, 1989 (August 07 1989) | Event | U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. | |
| August 7th, 1989 (August 07 1989) | Death | Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (born in 1944) | |
| August 7th, 1988 (August 07 1988) | Event | Rioting in New York City s Tompkins Square Park. | |
| August 7th, 1988 (August 07 1988) | Birth | Melody Oliveria, American internet blogger | |
| August 7th, 1987 (August 07 1987) | Birth | Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player | |
| August 7th, 1987 (August 07 1987) | Death | Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (born in 1900) | |
| August 7th, 1985 (August 07 1985) | Event | Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan s first astronauts. | |
| August 7th, 1985 (August 07 1985) | Death | Grayson Hall, American actress (born in 1923) | |
| August 7th, 1984 (August 07 1984) | Death | Esther Phillips, American singer (born in 1935) | |
| August 7th, 1983 (August 07 1983) | Birth | Tina O Brien, British actress | |
| August 7th, 1983 (August 07 1983) | Birth | Robert Flores, American baseball player | |
| August 7th, 1982 (August 07 1982) | Birth | Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer | |
| August 7th, 1982 (August 07 1982) | Birth | Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player | |
| August 7th, 1981 (August 07 1981) | Event | The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. | |
| August 7th, 1980 (August 07 1980) | Birth | Aurelie Claudel, French supermodel | |
| August 7th, 1979 (August 07 1979) | Birth | Eric Johnson, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Event | United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Birth | Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed) | |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Birth | Alexandre Aja, French director | |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Birth | Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer | |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Birth | Cirroc Lofton, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1978 (August 07 1978) | Birth | Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress | |
| August 7th, 1976 (August 07 1976) | Event | Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars. | |
| August 7th, 1976 (August 07 1976) | Birth | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer | |
| August 7th, 1975 (August 07 1975) | Birth | Edgar Renteria, Colombian baseball player | |
| August 7th, 1975 (August 07 1975) | Birth | David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist | |
| August 7th, 1975 (August 07 1975) | Birth | Charlize Theron, South African actress | Charlize Theron Quotes |
| August 7th, 1974 (August 07 1974) | Death | Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (born in 1925) | |
| August 7th, 1974 (August 07 1974) | Death | Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (born in 1902) | |
| August 7th, 1973 (August 07 1973) | Event | NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television. | |
| August 7th, 1973 (August 07 1973) | Birth | Danny Graves, American baseball player | |
| August 7th, 1973 (August 07 1973) | Birth | Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer | |
| August 7th, 1972 (August 07 1972) | Birth | Greg Serano, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1972 (August 07 1972) | Death | Joi Lansing, American model and actress (born in 1929) | |
| August 7th, 1971 (August 07 1971) | Birth | Sydney Penny, American actress | |
| August 7th, 1971 (August 07 1971) | Birth | Rachel York, American actress and singer | |
| August 7th, 1970 (August 07 1970) | Event | California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | |
| August 7th, 1969 (August 07 1969) | Death | Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (born in 1905) | |
| August 7th, 1968 (August 07 1968) | Birth | Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) | |
| August 7th, 1967 (August 07 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: The People s Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. | |
| August 7th, 1967 (August 07 1967) | Birth | Jason Grimsley, American baseball player | |
| August 7th, 1966 (August 07 1966) | Event | Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan. | |
| August 7th, 1966 (August 07 1966) | Birth | Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses) | |
| August 7th, 1966 (August 07 1966) | Birth | Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur | |
| August 7th, 1964 (August 07 1964) | Event | 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. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| August 7th, 1964 (August 07 1964) | Birth | Michael Weishan, American TV host | |
| August 7th, 1964 (August 07 1964) | Birth | John Birmingham, Australian author | |
| August 7th, 1963 (August 07 1963) | Birth | Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor | |
| August 7th, 1962 (August 07 1962) | Birth | Bruno Pelletier, Quebecois singer | |
| August 7th, 1961 (August 07 1961) | Birth | Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast | |
| August 7th, 1960 (August 07 1960) | Event | Cote d Ivoire becomes independent. | |
| August 7th, 1960 (August 07 1960) | Birth | David Duchovny, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1960 (August 07 1960) | Birth | Jacquie O Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama) | |
| August 7th, 1959 (August 07 1959) | Event | The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use. | |
| August 7th, 1959 (August 07 1959) | Event | Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |
| August 7th, 1958 (August 07 1958) | Birth | Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden) | Bruce Dickinson Quotes |
| August 7th, 1958 (August 07 1958) | Birth | Alberto Salazar, American distance runner | |
| August 7th, 1957 (August 07 1957) | Birth | Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast | |
| August 7th, 1957 (August 07 1957) | Death | Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (born in 1892) | |
| August 7th, 1955 (August 07 1955) | Event | Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan. | |
| August 7th, 1955 (August 07 1955) | Birth | Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer | |
| August 7th, 1955 (August 07 1955) | Birth | Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle | |
| August 7th, 1955 (August 07 1955) | Birth | Wayne Knight, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1955 (August 07 1955) | Birth | Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director | |
| August 7th, 1954 (August 07 1954) | Birth | Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy | |
| August 7th, 1953 (August 07 1953) | Birth | Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman | |
| August 7th, 1952 (August 07 1952) | Birth | Alexei Sayle, British comedian | |
| August 7th, 1950 (August 07 1950) | Birth | Alan Keyes, American diplomat and political activist | Alan Keyes Quotes |
| August 7th, 1949 (August 07 1949) | Birth | Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader | |
| August 7th, 1948 (August 07 1948) | Birth | Greg Chappell, Australian cricket player, captain and coach | |
| August 7th, 1948 (August 07 1948) | Birth | Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author | |
| August 7th, 1947 (August 07 1947) | Event | 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. | |
| August 7th, 1947 (August 07 1947) | Event | The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). | |
| August 7th, 1947 (August 07 1947) | Birth | Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian entertainer | |
| August 7th, 1946 (August 07 1946) | Birth | Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader | |
| August 7th, 1945 (August 07 1945) | Event | President Harry 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. | |
| August 7th, 1945 (August 07 1945) | Birth | Alan Page, American football player | |
| August 7th, 1944 (August 07 1944) | Event | IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). | |
| August 7th, 1944 (August 07 1944) | Birth | Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) | |
| August 7th, 1944 (August 07 1944) | Birth | David Rasche, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1943 (August 07 1943) | Birth | Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (died in 1994) | |
| August 7th, 1943 (August 07 1943) | Birth | Alain Corneau, French film director | |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Event | World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal beginsU.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. | Solomon Quotes |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Birth | Tobin Bell, American actor | |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Birth | Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host | Garrison Keillor Quotes |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Birth | Carlos Monzon, Argentine boxer | |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Birth | B.J. Thomas, American singer | |
| August 7th, 1942 (August 07 1942) | Birth | Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician | |
| August 7th, 1941 (August 07 1941) | Death | Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1861) | Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| August 7th, 1940 (August 07 1940) | Event | Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II | |
| August 7th, 1940 (August 07 1940) | Birth | Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician | |
| August 7th, 1939 (August 07 1939) | Birth | Anjanette Comer, American actress | |
| August 7th, 1938 (August 07 1938) | Death | Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (born in 1863) | |
| August 7th, 1936 (August 07 1936) | Birth | Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (died in 1977) | |
| August 7th, 1933 (August 07 1933) | Event | The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs Day. | |
| August 7th, 1933 (August 07 1933) | Birth | Eddie Firmani, South African football player and coach | |
| August 7th, 1932 (August 07 1932) | Birth | Abebe Bikila, Ethiopan athlete (died in 1973) | |
| August 7th, 1932 (August 07 1932) | Birth | Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist | |
| August 7th, 1932 (August 07 1932) | Birth | Edward Hardwicke, British actor | |
| August 7th, 1931 (August 07 1931) | Birth | Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author | |
| August 7th, 1929 (August 07 1929) | Birth | Don Larsen, American baseball player | |
| August 7th, 1928 (August 07 1928) | Birth | Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (died in 1992) | |
| August 7th, 1928 (August 07 1928) | Birth | James Randi, Canadian magician | |
| August 7th, 1927 (August 07 1927) | Event | The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. | |
| August 7th, 1927 (August 07 1927) | Birth | Edwin W. Edwards, American politician | Edwin W. Edwards Quotes |
| August 7th, 1927 (August 07 1927) | Birth | Art Houtteman, American baseball player (died in 2003) | |
| August 7th, 1927 (August 07 1927) | Birth | Carl Switzer, American child actor (died in 1959) | |
| August 7th, 1926 (August 07 1926) | Birth | Stan Freberg, American voice comedian | |
| August 7th, 1925 (August 07 1925) | Birth | M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist | |
| August 7th, 1925 (August 07 1925) | Birth | Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (died in 2003) | |
| August 7th, 1921 (August 07 1921) | Birth | Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist | |
| August 7th, 1917 (August 07 1917) | Death | Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (born in 1891) | |
| August 7th, 1913 (August 07 1913) | Birth | George Van Eps, American guitarist (died in 1998) | |
| August 7th, 1912 (August 07 1912) | Death | Francois-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (born in 1841) | |
| August 7th, 1911 (August 07 1911) | Birth | Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist (died in 1979) | |
| August 7th, 1907 (August 07 1907) | Birth | Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (died in 1980) | |
| August 7th, 1904 (August 07 1904) | Birth | Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1971) | |
| August 7th, 1903 (August 07 1903) | Birth | Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (died in 1972) | |
| August 7th, 1901 (August 07 1901) | Birth | Ann Harding, American actress (died in 1981) | |
| August 7th, 1885 (August 07 1885) | Birth | Billie Burke, American actress (died in 1970) | |
| August 7th, 1879 (August 07 1879) | Event | The opening of the Poor Man s Palace in Manchester. | |
| August 7th, 1877 (August 07 1877) | Birth | Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (died in 1949) | |
| August 7th, 1876 (August 07 1876) | Birth | Mata Hari, Dutch spy (died in 1917) | |
| August 7th, 1868 (August 07 1868) | Birth | Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (died in 1931) | |
| August 7th, 1867 (August 07 1867) | Birth | Emil Nolde, German painter (died in 1956) | |
| August 7th, 1862 (August 07 1862) | Birth | Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (died in 1931) | |
| August 7th, 1860 (August 07 1860) | Birth | Alan Leo, British astrologer (died in 1917) | |
| August 7th, 1855 (August 07 1855) | Death | Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (born in 1802) | |
| August 7th, 1848 (August 07 1848) | Death | Jons Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (born in 1779) | |
| August 7th, 1844 (August 07 1844) | Birth | Auguste Michel-Levy, French geologist (died in 1911) | |
| August 7th, 1834 (August 07 1834) | Death | Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (born in 1752) | |
| August 7th, 1819 (August 07 1819) | Event | Simon Bolivar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyaca. | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| August 7th, 1817 (August 07 1817) | Death | Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (born in 1739) | |
| August 7th, 1794 (August 07 1794) | Event | Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. | |
| August 7th, 1789 (August 07 1789) | Event | The United States War Department is established. | |
| August 7th, 1783 (August 07 1783) | Birth | Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (died in 1810) | |
| August 7th, 1782 (August 07 1782) | Event | 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. | George Washington Quotes |
| August 7th, 1779 (August 07 1779) | Birth | Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (died in 1842) | |
| August 7th, 1779 (August 07 1779) | Birth | Carl Ritter, German geographer (died in 1859) | |
| August 7th, 1751 (August 07 1751) | Birth | Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (died in 1820) | |
| August 7th, 1742 (August 07 1742) | Birth | Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (died in 1786) | |
| August 7th, 1726 (August 07 1726) | Birth | James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (died in 1790) | |
| August 7th, 1714 (August 07 1714) | Event | The first important victory of the Russian Navythe Battle of Gangut. | |
| August 7th, 1679 (August 07 1679) | Event | The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by Rene 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. | Robert South Quotes |
| August 7th, 1661 (August 07 1661) | Death | Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (born in 1608) | |
| August 7th, 1639 (August 07 1639) | Death | Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (born in 1605) | |
| August 7th, 1635 (August 07 1635) | Death | Friedrich von Spee, German writer (born in 1591) | |
| August 7th, 1616 (August 07 1616) | Death | Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (born in 1548) | |
| August 7th, 1613 (August 07 1613) | Death | Thomas Fleming, English judge (born in 1544) | |
| August 7th, 1598 (August 07 1598) | Birth | Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died in 1672) | |
| August 7th, 1574 (August 07 1574) | Birth | Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (died in 1649) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| August 7th, 1560 (August 07 1560) | Birth | Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (died in 1614) | Elizabeth Bath Quotes |
| August 7th, 1533 (August 07 1533) | Birth | Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, Basque soldier and poet (died in 1595) | |
| August 7th, 1485 (August 07 1485) | Death | Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince | |
| August 7th, 1461 (August 07 1461) | Event | the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Forbidden City (which were doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising), Cao Qin found himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, lost three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he fled to his house and committed suicide by jumping down a well located within the walled compound of his urban Beijing home. | Cao Cao Quotes |
| August 7th, 1400 (August 07 1400) | Birth | Guillaume Dufay, French composer (died in 1474) | |
| August 7th, 1282 (August 07 1282) | Birth | Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (died in 1316) | |
| August 7th, 1106 (August 07 1106) | Death | Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1050) | |
| August 7th, 0479 (August 07 0479) | Death | Emperor Yuryaku of Japan | |
| August 7th, 0461 (August 07 0461) | Death | Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (born in 420) | |
| August 7th, 0322 (August 07 0322) | Event | Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. | Alexander the Great Quotes |
| August 7th, 0317 (August 07 0317) | Birth | Constantius II, Roman emperor (died in 361) | |
