About August 7
August 7, 2024 is the 220th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 175 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
August 7: More About This Day
The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.
What Happened On August 7
- 322 BC –Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
- 1420 –Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
- 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.
- 1789 –The United States War Department is established.
- 1791 –United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
- 1819 –Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
- 1879 –The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
- 1927 –The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- 1938 –The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
- 1944 –IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- 1947 –The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- 1947 –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 journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1955 –Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
- 1965 –The infamous first party between Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey’s estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell’s Angels.
- 1974 –Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1368 ft in the air.
- 1979 –Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
- 1985 –Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.
- 1989 –U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
- 1998 –The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
- 1999 –The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighbouring Russian Republic of Dagestan.
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