About August 7
August 7, 2025 is the 219th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 194 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.
- 461 –Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer .
- 936 –Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
- 1427 –The Visconti of Milan’s fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
- 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.
- 1714 –The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
- 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.
- 1794 –U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
- 1890 –Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1976 –Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
- 1978 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
- 1981 –The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 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.
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