A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on August 7 throughout history.
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The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington, creates two Honorary Badges of Distinction and a Badge of Military Merit (now the Purple Heart). First time military awards are presented to common soldiers.
Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs Day
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
Bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States began in 1933 when full diplomatic relations were established.
China bans the release of the Winnie the Pooh movie "Christopher Robin" after the character is used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
"Tik Tok" (stylized as TiK ToK) is the debut solo single by American singer Kesha, who co-wrote the song with its producers Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.
NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in a 13-1 win against the Philadelphia Athletics
German airship inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (31) weds Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, until his death in1917
American "The Flintstones" animator William Hanna (26) weds Violet Blanch Wogatzke (23), until his death in 2001
American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (22) marries 1st wife Vivian Liberto (20) at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio. Texas; divorce in 1966
The Battle of the Echinades was one of the naval battles of the Lamian War (323–322 BC), fought between the Macedonian navy under Cleitus the White and the Athenian navy.
Battle at Constantinople: Slavic, Persians and Avar siege of Constantinople fails, keeping the Byzantine Empire intact
Forces from the Mayan city of Palenque, under its leader Pakal, defeat nearby Santa Elena and take its ruler captive
Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of the Carolingian Empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.
Council of Pisa, an attempt to end the Western Schism in the Catholic Church with two opposing popes, closes after electing a third, Alexander V
Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, the first organized witch trials
Spanish troops conquer and plunder Oudewater in the Netherlands during the Dutch revolt, killing almost all its inhabitants
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, (15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712) was a British Tory statesman.
Slave uprising in Curaçao
Fort Loudoun was a British fort located in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. Constructed from 1756 until 1757 to help garner Cherokee support for the British at the outset of the French and...
The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the U.S. federal government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction and maintenance of all lighthouses and...
The Battle of Boyacá (1819), also known as the Battle of Boyacá Bridge was a decisive victory by a combined army of Venezuelan and New Granadan troops along with a British Legion led by General Simon...
First potatoes are planted in Hawaii
Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia: Surprise Union raid kills 400 Confederates and captures 400 horses, badly damaging Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley
Opening of the Openshaw Citadel, the "Poor Man's Palace," by the Salvation Army in Manchester
Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead
Germany annexes Angra Pequena / German South West Africa (modern Namibia)
Five German warships anchor off Zanzibar
A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure.
53rd US Congress (1893-95) convenes with a continued Democratic majority
New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic, arriving in Le Havre after leaving Manhattan on June 6 [1]
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area.
Tommy Corcoran sets an MLB record for shortstops by recording 14 assists in Cincinnati's 4-2 win against the St. Louis Cardinals
Train derails on a bridge in Eden, Colorado, due to a flash flood, killing 96 people
The first train to travel the length of New Zealand's North Island main trunk line, the "Parliament Special," leaves Wellington for Auckland to greet the US Navy's "Great White Fleet"; passengers include Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and members of Parliament, and the trip takes 20.5 hours
Alice Ramsey (22) and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip [1]
Battle of Mulhouse: First attack on Germany by French troops under General Bonneau on Germany in attempt to retake Alsace
Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race to average over 100 mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago with an average speed of 101.8 mph
League of Nations advises against the Turkish/Iraqi division of the Mosul region
Peace Bridge over the Niagara River between the US and Canada is dedicated to commemorate 100 years of peace between the two countries
The Third Ruijs de Beerenbrouck cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 10 August 1929 until 26 May 1933.
A large mob estimated at 2,000 people lynches two young Black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Marion, Indiana
60% of voters agree to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
A Finnish quinella in the 5,000 m final at the Berlin Olympics: Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen
The Military Administration in France was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
Chișinău is the capital and largest city of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre.
The Dutch resistance (Dutch: Nederlands verzet) to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent.
Red Army recaptures Bogodukhov
Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) is an Indian civic transport and electricity provider public body based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
American Alice Coachman becomes the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she wins the high jump at the London Games
Police bar white players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle from playing in the Negro League
Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h (1,237.77 mph)
Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, using the Electra prop-jet
Charles Mahoney becomes the first Black American to serve as a full UN delegate
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, Hebrew: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, Universitat Bar-Ilan) is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights law passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Explorer 6, or S-2, was a NASA satellite, launched on 7 August 1959, at 14:24:20 GMT.
The Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (French: Forces Armées de Cote d'Ivoire; "FACI") are the armed forces of Ivory Coast, first formed after the country's independence in 1960.
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
31st NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000 attendees)
Race riot in Lansing, Michigan
A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
French Philippe Petit walks a tightrope strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City at a height of 1,350 feet (411.5 meters)
The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth.
Mount Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan erupts for the first time in over 30 years
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the...
The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981.
The 10th World Championships in Athletics (Finnish: Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2005, Swedish: Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 2005), under the auspices of the International Association...
Dan Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel, and Anne Knabe begin a cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina
The Esquipulas Nicaraguan Peace Agreement, also known as the Central American Peace Accords, was a peace initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts that had plagued Central America...
Future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th career race aboard 2-year-old filly Fawn and Hahn in the fourth race at Del Mar
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia
San Francisco Giants announce the sale of the MLB franchise to a group of Tampa Bay investors, but the move is blocked by other investors
Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, killing 118 people
Ernesto Samper Pizano is a Colombian politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998.
In one of cricket history's closest Tests, and despite a brave unbeaten 43 from Australian tail-ender Brett Lee, England sneaks a 2-run win in the series-turning 2nd Test at Edgbaston
Russo-Georgian War: Georgia moves troops into the Russian-supported self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in response to aggression; first European war of the 21st century
Hampered by a back injury, Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman scores a brave, unbeaten 103 to guide India to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka in Colombo, drawing the series
,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2013. Some of the incidents are sectarian in nature and the TTP is responsible for a majority of them.
England breaks a 19-year drought in a home Test cricket series against South Africa, beating the Proteas by 177 runs in the 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali scores 75 not out and takes 5/69
Bodies of two teenagers at the center of a huge manhunt and suspected of killing three people on remote British Columbia roads are found after apparent suicides
As part of the winning American 4 × 400 m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals and becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
MLB Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber ties career highs with three home runs and seven RBIs in a 9-4 win over the Dodgers in Los Angeles
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and alleged serial killer, known for hungarian countess and alleged serial killer, was born on 1560-08-07.
François Darlan, French admiral, known for french admiral, was born on 1881-08-07. Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan was a French admiral and political figure.
Louis Leakey, British archaeologist and naturalist, known for british archaeologist and naturalist, was born on 1903-08-07.
Ralph Bunche is born
Charlize Theron, South African african and american actress, known for south african and american actress, was born on 1976-08-07.
Mata Hari, Dutch musician, known for dutch exotic dancer, was born on 1876-08-07. Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who…
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete, known for ethiopian marathon runner, was born on 1932-08-07. Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion.
Greg Chappell athlete, known for australian cricketer, was born on 1949-08-07. Gregory Stephen Chappell is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and…
Alberto Salazar is born
Jalen Hurts, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1999-08-07.
The Battle of the Echinades was one of the naval battles of the Lamian War (323–322 BC), fought between the Macedonian navy under Cleitus the White and the Athenian navy.
Battle at Constantinople: Slavic, Persians and Avar siege of Constantinople fails, keeping the Byzantine Empire intact
Forces from the Mayan city of Palenque, under its leader Pakal, defeat nearby Santa Elena and take its ruler captive
Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of the Carolingian Empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.
Henry IV dies
Council of Pisa, an attempt to end the Western Schism in the Catholic Church with two opposing popes, closes after electing a third, Alexander V
Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, the first organized witch trials
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and alleged serial killer, known for hungarian countess and alleged serial killer, was born on 1560-08-07.
Spanish troops conquer and plunder Oudewater in the Netherlands during the Dutch revolt, killing almost all its inhabitants
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, (15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712) was a British Tory statesman.
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
Slave uprising in Curaçao
Fort Loudoun was a British fort located in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. Constructed from 1756 until 1757 to help garner Cherokee support for the British at the outset of the French and...
Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington, creates two Honorary Badges of Distinction and a Badge of Military Merit (now the Purple Heart). First time military awards are presented to common soldiers.
The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the U.S. federal government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction and maintenance of all lighthouses and...
The Battle of Boyacá (1819), also known as the Battle of Boyacá Bridge was a decisive victory by a combined army of Venezuelan and New Granadan troops along with a British Legion led by General Simon...
First potatoes are planted in Hawaii
Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia: Surprise Union raid kills 400 Confederates and captures 400 horses, badly damaging Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley
German airship inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (31) weds Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, until his death in1917
Mata Hari, Dutch musician, known for dutch exotic dancer, was born on 1876-08-07. Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who…
Opening of the Openshaw Citadel, the "Poor Man's Palace," by the Salvation Army in Manchester
François Darlan, French admiral, known for french admiral, was born on 1881-08-07. Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan was a French admiral and political figure.
Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead
Germany annexes Angra Pequena / German South West Africa (modern Namibia)
Five German warships anchor off Zanzibar
A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure.
53rd US Congress (1893-95) convenes with a continued Democratic majority
New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic, arriving in Le Havre after leaving Manhattan on June 6 [1]
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area.
Tommy Corcoran sets an MLB record for shortstops by recording 14 assists in Cincinnati's 4-2 win against the St. Louis Cardinals
Louis Leakey, British archaeologist and naturalist, known for british archaeologist and naturalist, was born on 1903-08-07.
Train derails on a bridge in Eden, Colorado, due to a flash flood, killing 96 people
Ralph Bunche is born
The first train to travel the length of New Zealand's North Island main trunk line, the "Parliament Special," leaves Wellington for Auckland to greet the US Navy's "Great White Fleet"; passengers include Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and members of Parliament, and the trip takes 20.5 hours
Alice Ramsey (22) and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip [1]
Battle of Mulhouse: First attack on Germany by French troops under General Bonneau on Germany in attempt to retake Alsace
Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race to average over 100 mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago with an average speed of 101.8 mph
League of Nations advises against the Turkish/Iraqi division of the Mosul region
Peace Bridge over the Niagara River between the US and Canada is dedicated to commemorate 100 years of peace between the two countries
NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in a 13-1 win against the Philadelphia Athletics
The Third Ruijs de Beerenbrouck cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 10 August 1929 until 26 May 1933.
A large mob estimated at 2,000 people lynches two young Black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Marion, Indiana
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete, known for ethiopian marathon runner, was born on 1932-08-07. Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion.
Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs Day
60% of voters agree to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
American "The Flintstones" animator William Hanna (26) weds Violet Blanch Wogatzke (23), until his death in 2001
A Finnish quinella in the 5,000 m final at the Berlin Olympics: Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen
The Military Administration in France was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
Chișinău is the capital and largest city of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre.
The Dutch resistance (Dutch: Nederlands verzet) to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent.
Red Army recaptures Bogodukhov
Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) is an Indian civic transport and electricity provider public body based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
American Alice Coachman becomes the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she wins the high jump at the London Games
Greg Chappell athlete, known for australian cricketer, was born on 1949-08-07. Gregory Stephen Chappell is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and…
Police bar white players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle from playing in the Negro League
Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h (1,237.77 mph)
Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, using the Electra prop-jet
American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (22) marries 1st wife Vivian Liberto (20) at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio. Texas; divorce in 1966
Charles Mahoney becomes the first Black American to serve as a full UN delegate
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, Hebrew: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, Universitat Bar-Ilan) is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights law passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Explorer 6, or S-2, was a NASA satellite, launched on 7 August 1959, at 14:24:20 GMT.
Alberto Salazar is born
The Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (French: Forces Armées de Cote d'Ivoire; "FACI") are the armed forces of Ivory Coast, first formed after the country's independence in 1960.
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
31st NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000 attendees)
Race riot in Lansing, Michigan
A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
French Philippe Petit walks a tightrope strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City at a height of 1,350 feet (411.5 meters)
The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth.
Charlize Theron, South African african and american actress, known for south african and american actress, was born on 1976-08-07.
Mount Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan erupts for the first time in over 30 years
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the...
The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981.
The 10th World Championships in Athletics (Finnish: Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2005, Swedish: Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 2005), under the auspices of the International Association...
Dan Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel, and Anne Knabe begin a cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina
The Esquipulas Nicaraguan Peace Agreement, also known as the Central American Peace Accords, was a peace initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts that had plagued Central America...
Future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th career race aboard 2-year-old filly Fawn and Hahn in the fourth race at Del Mar
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia
Bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States began in 1933 when full diplomatic relations were established.
San Francisco Giants announce the sale of the MLB franchise to a group of Tampa Bay investors, but the move is blocked by other investors
Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, killing 118 people
Ernesto Samper Pizano is a Colombian politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998.
Jalen Hurts, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1999-08-07.
In one of cricket history's closest Tests, and despite a brave unbeaten 43 from Australian tail-ender Brett Lee, England sneaks a 2-run win in the series-turning 2nd Test at Edgbaston
Russo-Georgian War: Georgia moves troops into the Russian-supported self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in response to aggression; first European war of the 21st century
"Tik Tok" (stylized as TiK ToK) is the debut solo single by American singer Kesha, who co-wrote the song with its producers Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.
Hampered by a back injury, Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman scores a brave, unbeaten 103 to guide India to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka in Colombo, drawing the series
,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2013. Some of the incidents are sectarian in nature and the TTP is responsible for a majority of them.
England breaks a 19-year drought in a home Test cricket series against South Africa, beating the Proteas by 177 runs in the 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali scores 75 not out and takes 5/69
China bans the release of the Winnie the Pooh movie "Christopher Robin" after the character is used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
Bodies of two teenagers at the center of a huge manhunt and suspected of killing three people on remote British Columbia roads are found after apparent suicides
As part of the winning American 4 × 400 m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals and becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
MLB Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber ties career highs with three home runs and seven RBIs in a 9-4 win over the Dodgers in Los Angeles