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.
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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
- 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.
- 1420 –Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
- 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.
- 1879 –The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
- 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.
- 1947 –Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1955 –Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 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.
- 1979 –Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
- 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.
- 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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