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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