About August 7
August 7, 2024 is the 220th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 175 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
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
- 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 .
- 936 –Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
- 1420 –Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1819 –Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
- 1890 –Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1959 –Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- 1976 –Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
- 1981 –The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1999 –The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighbouring Russian Republic of Dagestan.
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