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.
- 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.
- 1819 –Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
- 1909 –Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco.
- 1927 –The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- 1933 –The Simele massacre: The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
- 1942 –World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1947 –The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- 1959 –Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1960 –Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
- 1976 –Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
- 1979 –Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
- 1981 –The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1998 –The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
- 2007 –Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run.
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