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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.
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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