7th
August, on this day
322 BC - Battle
of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander
the Great.
768 Stephen
III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1461 The Ming
Dynasty Chinese military general Cao
Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun
Emperor;
1485 Henry
Tudor, the future Henry VII of England, lands in Wales at the
start of his succesful bid to take the English throne
1498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
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.
1711 Ascot racecourse becomes 'Royal'
Ascot after the attendance of Queen Anne for a day at the races
1714 The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle
of Gangut.
1782 George Washington establishes the Order
of the Purple Heart - a decoration for US soldiers wounded in
combat
1789 US
War Department established
1794 Whiskey
Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania
rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1819
Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
1840 The British Parliament passes an Act prohibiting the use of 'climbing
boys' as chimney sweeps
1858 Queen Victoria choses Ottawa to be the capital of the Dominion
of Canada
1879 The opening of the Poor
Man's Palace in Manchester.
1882 Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded
or die
1888 Theophilus
Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
1914 World War I: German forces enter the Belgian city of Liege
1925 Britain introduces the Daylight
Saving Act - bringing in British summer time so the nation changes
clocks by one hour twice a year
1926 The first British motor racing Grand Prix is staged at Brooklands
- 110 laps of the track for a total distance of 287 miles. Winner
is Robert Senechal in just over 4 hours at an average speed of almost
72 miles an hour
1933 The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the
village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian
Martyrs Day.
1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's
attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1938 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1856 British Guiana)
1940 Alsace
Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World
War II
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1942 Battle
of Guadalcanal begins: US troops land on the Japanese-held island
of Guadalcanal in the Southern Solomon Islands in the Pacific
1944 IBM
dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, known best
as the
Harvard Mark I
1945 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.
1946 1st US coin bearing portrait of Negro authorised
1947 Balsa raft Kon
Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1955 Tokyo
Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins
selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
1959 US satellite Explorer
6, is launched from Cape Canaveral - and becomes the first space
probe to transmit photographs of the Earth from space
1960 Ivory
Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1961 Cosmonaut Gherman
Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1963 Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
1964 US Congress approves Gulf
of Tonkin resolution
1966 Race riot in Lansing,
Michigan
1967 The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an
undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
1970 1st computer
chess tournament
1970 4, including presiding judge, Harold
Haley, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police
charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
1971 Apollo
15 returns to Earth
1973 US Vice-President Spiro
Agnew admits he is under investigation in his own state of Maryland
for crimes including fraud and bribery
1973 NBC airs the final day of the Watergate
hearings on U.S. daytime television.
1974 Philippe
Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers of the World
Trade Center
1976 US Viking
2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce
Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life
on Mars
1978 Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope
Paul VI
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.
1983 Grete
Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
1984 Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
1985 Takao
Doi, Mamoru
Mohri and Chiaki
Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin
cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
1987 Lynne
Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR Bering Sea
1988 US Writers
guild end their 6 months strike
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.
1990 Desert
Shield begin-US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
1990 Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi
invasion
1990 In South Africa, the African National Congress suspends its 29
year guerilla campaign against 'white rule' - a concession that leads
to formal talks on ending the country's system of Apartheid
1991 Court rules Manuel
Noriega, may access some secret US documents
1995 British athlete Jonathan
Edwards twice breaks his own world triple jump record - becoming
the first man to clear 18 metres - while winning the gold medal in
the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg
1997 Footballers Bruce
Grobbelaar, Hans
Segers and John
Fashanu are all found not guilty of match fixing
1998 Two terrorist bombs exploded outside the American Embassies in
Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kill more than 200 and
injure a further 5,000. The Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy
Places claims responsibility
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Birthdates which
occurred on 7th August :
317 Constantius
II Roman emperor (337-61)
1598 Georg Stiernhielm "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
1742 Nathanael Greene American Revolutionary War General
1779 Carl Ritter cofounder of modern science of geography
1783 John Heathcoat inventor (lace-making machinery)
1870 19 kittens born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
1876 Mata Hari dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
1885 Billie Burke Washington DC, actress (Glinda-The Wizard of Oz)
1886 Louis Hazeltine inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)
1896 Ernesto Lecuona Havana Cuba, composer (Malague¤a)
19-- Calos Vives Columbia, spanish singer (No Podras Escaparde Mi)
19-- David Rasche Ill, actor (Sledge Hammer)
1903 Louis Leakey anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal)
1904 Ralph J Bunche a founder & UN diplomat (Nobel 1950)
1921 Karel Husa Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
1926 Stan Freberg LA Calif, satirist/ad executive
1927 Edwin W Edwards (Gov-La)
1928 Amazing "James" Randi Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician
1929 Don Larsen pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect
day
1929 Ruth Carter-Stapleton Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
1932 Ann Harding US, actress (East is West, Janie)
1938 Helen Caldicott Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist
1940 Marlyn Mason San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
1942 Anjanette Comer Dawson Tx, actress (Baby, Lepke)
1942 B.J. Thomas singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
1942 Garrison Keillor PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
1943 Lana Cantrell Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
1944 John Glover Kingston NY, actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special)
1945 Alan Page defensive tackle (Minn Vikings)
1950 David James Wottle 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 Rodney Crowell singer/guitarist (for Emmylou Harris)
1951 Gary Hall swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1956 Kent V Rominger Del Norte Colo, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
1957 Aleksandr Ditiatin USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 Alberto Salazar marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
1958 Bruce Dickinson heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Run to Hills)
1958 Larisa Karlova USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976,
80)
1960 Jacquie O'Sullivan rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 Yelena Davydova USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 Marcus Lewis Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
1967 Charlotte Lewis Kensington London, actress (Golden Child, Pirates)
1969 David Hollander LA Calif, actor (Lewis & Clark, What's Happenings?)
197- Josh A Andrew Koenig actor (Boner-Growing Pains)
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Deaths which occurred
on August 7th:
1867 Ira Aldridge actor dies at 63 in Lodes Poland
1957 Oliver Hardy comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
1969 Russ Morgan orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
1972 Joi Lansing actress (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 44 of cancer
1976 Murvyn Vye actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 63
1991 Shotzie Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
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