WillDekkard
08-07-2010, 03:20 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 7th
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* 322 BC Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
* 626 The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
* 936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
* 1420 Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
* 1427 The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
* 1461 The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
* 1606 The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
* 1679 The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by Renι 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.
* 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.
* 1794 U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
* 1819 Simσn Bolνvar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacα.
* 1879 The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
* 1890 Anna Mεnsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjφ murder.
* 1927 The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
* 1930 The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
* 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.
* 1940 World War II: Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
* 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.
* 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, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
* 1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
* 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
* 1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
* 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
* 1960 Cτte 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.
* 1964 Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
* 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.
* 1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
* 1967 Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
* 1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
* 1974 Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) 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.
* 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.
* 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
* 1988 Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
* 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 Second Chechen War began.
* 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 against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
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This Date in History - August 7th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 322 BC Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
* 626 The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
* 936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
* 1420 Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
* 1427 The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
* 1461 The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
* 1606 The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
* 1679 The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by Renι 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.
* 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.
* 1794 U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
* 1819 Simσn Bolνvar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacα.
* 1879 The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
* 1890 Anna Mεnsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjφ murder.
* 1927 The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
* 1930 The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
* 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.
* 1940 World War II: Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
* 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.
* 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, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
* 1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
* 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
* 1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
* 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
* 1960 Cτte 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.
* 1964 Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
* 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.
* 1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
* 1967 Vietnam War: the People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
* 1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
* 1974 Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) 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.
* 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.
* 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
* 1988 Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
* 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 Second Chechen War began.
* 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 against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
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