August
7
Independence
Day
Ivory Coast : August 7 1960
August
7 : Inetnational Friendship day ( first Sunday of August )
Friendship
Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August every year.
On this day people spend time with their friends and express
love for them. Exchange of Friendship Day Gifts like flowers,
cards and wrist bands is a popular tradition of this occasion.
Events
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.
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.
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.
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 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be
executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
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.
1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks 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.
1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration
camp begins.
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 was minted until 2008.
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.
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 due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed
of.
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.
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.
2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball
great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
Holidays
and observances
Assyrian
Martyrs Day (Assyrian community)
Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)
Christian Feast Day:
Albert of Trapani
Cajetan of Thienna
Carpophorus
Dometius of Persia
Donatus of Arezzo
Pope Sixtus II
August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Republic Day (Côte d'Ivoire)
Youth Day (Kiribati)
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