August 7

is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian_Calendar (220th in leap_years), with 146 days remaining.

Events

1679 - The brigantine ''Le_Griffon'', which was commissioned by René_Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara_River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great_Lakes.

1789 - The United_States_War_Department is established.

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".

of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.

1816 - Simón_Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle_of_Boyacá.

1927 - Peace_Bridge opens, between Fort_Erie,_Ontario and Buffalo,_New_York.

begins - US_Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the 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 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.

launches Explorer_6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape_Canaveral, Florida.

1960 - Côte_d'Ivoire becomes independent.

passes the Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution giving US President Lyndon_B._Johnson broad war powers to deal with North_Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

agrees to give North_Vietnam and undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

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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.

1989 - US Congressman Mickey_Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.

Births

1560 - Elizabeth_Bathory serial_killer (d. 1614)

1598 - Georg_Stiernhielm, poet

1742 - Nathanael_Greene, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1786)

1779 - Carl_Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography (d. 1859)

1836 - Evander_Law, Confederate General

1867 - Emil_Nolde, painter (d. 1956)

1876 - Mata_Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), spy (d. 1917)

1877 - Ulrich_Salchow, Swedish figure skater

1883 - Joachim_Ringelnatz, writer (d. 1934)

1885 - Billie_Burke, actress, ''The Wizard of Oz'' (d. 1970)

1890 - Gurley_Flynn, politician (d. 1964)

1904 - Ralph_Bunche, Nobel_Peace_Prize recipient

1904 - Hanna_Melzer, activist against Nazism (d. 1960)

1926 - Stan_Freberg, cartoon and commercial voice, comedian

1927 - Carl_Alfalfa_Switzer, actor (d. 1959)

1928 - James_Randi, magician

1936 - Rahsaan_Roland_Kirk

1940 - Jean-Luc_Dehaene, Prime_Minister_of_Belgium

1942 - Garrison_Keillor, radio host

1942 - B.J._Thomas, singer

1949 - Walid_Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze

1958 - Bruce_Dickinson, singer

1960 - David_Duchovny, actor

1975 - Charlize_Theron, actress

Deaths

461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated)

1834 - Joseph_Marie_Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard_Loom

1855 - Mariano_Arista, president of Mexico

1931 - Bix_Beiderbecke, musician

1941 - Rabindranath_Tagore, author

1957 - Oliver_Hardy, comedian, actor

1995 - Brigid_Brophy, British author

Holidays and observances

Colombia - Battle of Boyacá

Côte_d'Ivoire - Republic Day (Independence in 1960 from France)

Kiribati - Youth Day

Western_Samoa - Labour Day ---- August_6 - August_8 - July_7 - September_7 -- listing of all days

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