Notable Historical Events on August 7th
August 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
322 |
Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. |
BC AD | |
626 |
Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated |
768 |
Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
936 |
Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany |
1409 |
Council of Pisa closes |
1461 |
Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. |
1479 |
Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI |
1485 |
Henry Tudor's (Henry VII to be) army lands in Milford Haven, South Wales |
1573 |
Francis Drake's fleet returns to Plymouth after a year spent raiding for Spanish treasure |
1575 |
Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died |
1606 |
Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I. |
1620 |
Johannes Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft |
1620 |
Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici |
1710 |
Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance |
1714 |
The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden |
1750 |
Slave uprising on Curacao |
1760 |
Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians |
1782 |
George Washington first creates Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army |
1789 |
Congress creates Department of War & Lighthouse Service |
1802 |
Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti) |
1814 |
Pope Pius VII reinstates the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) |
1819 |
Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia |
1820 |
1st potatoes planted in Hawaii |
1864 |
Battle of Moorefield, WV |
1879 |
The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester. |
1882 |
Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die |
1884 |
Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) |
1885 |
5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar |
1888 |
Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door |
1893 |
53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes |
1900 |
Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike |
1904 |
Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96 |
1907 |
Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland |
1908 |
The first train to travel the length of New Zealand's North Island 'main trunk line', leaves Wellington |
1909 |
US issues 1st Lincoln penny |
1912 |
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres |
1914 |
Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece |
1914 |
French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross |
1914 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
1914 |
German army occupies city of Liege, Belgium |
1914 |
Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK |
1914 |
Russia invades East Prussia |
1915 |
Assault against Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die |
1915 |
St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores |
1921 |
Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter |
1925 |
League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied |
1927 |
Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated |
1927 |
US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 |
1929 |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government |
1929 |
Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
1929 |
Jo Baer (born Josephine Kleinberg), Seattle USA, American artist |
1930 |
A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana |
1930 |
Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government |
1930 |
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party |
1933 |
The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. |
1934 |
US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" |
1935 |
60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
1938 |
Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run |
1938 |
Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck university |
1940 |
Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile |
1940 |
Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 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 |
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is |
1942 |
Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
1942 |
Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
1944 |
Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter |
1944 |
Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation |
1944 |
German counter attack at Avranches fails |
1944 |
July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins |
1944 |
US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest, Brittany |
1944 |
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). |
1946 |
1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized |
1947 |
Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef |
1947 |
The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). |
1947 |
Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean |
1948 |
1st Dutch government of Beel resigns |
1948 |
Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) |
1949 |
"All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs |
1950 |
Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League |
1951 |
Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph |
1951 |
US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record) |
1953 |
Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet |
1954 |
"Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances |
1954 |
Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate |
1955 |
Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel |
1955 |
KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins |
1955 |
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan. |
1956 |
Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans |
1956 |
British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt |
1956 |
Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1959 |
Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space |
1959 |
The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design |
1960 |
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France |
1960 |
Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
1960 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
1961 |
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 |
1961 |
Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1963 |
Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland |
1964 |
31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) |
1964 |
Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots |
1964 |
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
1966 |
Race riot in Lansing Michigan |
1970 |
1st computer chess tournament |
1970 |
Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac |
1970 |
WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) |
1971 |
Apollo 15 returns to Earth |
1971 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast |
1972 |
Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn |
1974 |
Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers |
1976 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open |
1976 |
US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth |
1976 |
Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars |
1977 |
"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances |
1978 |
Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame |
1978 |
Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI |
1980 |
Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed |
1981 |
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
1983 |
"Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances |
1983 |
1st World Track & Field Championships |
1983 |
65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA |
1983 |
Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium |
1983 |
Grete Waitz of Norway wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki, Finland) |
1983 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1983 |
Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike |
1984 |
David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball |
1984 |
Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee |
1985 |
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country |
1985 |
Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album" |
1985 |
Baseball players end a 2 day strike |
1985 |
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
1986 |
"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1986 |
Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & 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 |
Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six |
1987 |
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea |
1988 |
Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament |
1988 |
Writers guild end their 6 months strike |
1988 |
Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park. |
1988 |
Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty |
1989 |
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
1990 |
Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia |
1990 |
NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome |
1991 |
Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10½" |
1991 |
Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents |
1991 |
Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR |
1991 |
Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes |
1991 |
US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds |
1992 |
Cleveland Indians turn a triple play |
1992 |
Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants |
1993 |
"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances |
1993 |
Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed |
1994 |
"Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances |
1994 |
1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan |
1994 |
Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
1994 |
Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia |
1997 |
STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit |
1997 |
Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier |
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. |
2010 |
Jerry Rice is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
2012 |
21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria |
2012 |
Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines |
2012 |
200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui |
2013 |
11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan |
2016 |
Venus Williams Loses in 1st Round of Singles at Rio Olympics |
2016 |
Japan protests over China's radar unit near disputed waters |
2016 |
Banned Russians quietly added back to Olympic swimming |
2017 |
South Korea, US agree to pressure North Korea, China hopes for North-South talks |
2017 |
China media stress limits to North Korea sanctions, slam US 'arrogance' |
2018 |
12 farmworkers killed in van accident in southern Italy |
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