What Happened on August 7?
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EVENTS ON AUGUST 7
Australian rules football
Year:
1858
The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
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Alice Huyler Ramsey
Year:
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, New York to San Francisco, California.
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Simón Bolívar
Year:
1819
Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
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President of the United States
Year:
1794
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
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Miami people
Year:
1791
American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
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British Grand Prix
Year:
1926
The first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands.
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Peace Bridge
Year:
1927
The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
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Soviet Union
Year:
1946
The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
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IBM
Year:
1944
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
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World War II
Year:
1942
World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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BIRTHS ON AUGUST 7
Robert Mueller
Year of birth:
1944
Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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John Glover (actor)
Year of birth:
1944
John Glover, American actor
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Mohammed Badie
Year of birth:
1943
Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
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Lana Cantrell
Year of birth:
1943
Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
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Alain Corneau
Year of birth:
1943
Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (died 2010)
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Alan Page
Year of birth:
1945
Alan Page, American football player and jurist
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Kenny Ireland
Year of birth:
1945
Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (died 2014)
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Walid Jumblatt
Year of birth:
1949
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
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Matthew Parris
Year of birth:
1949
Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
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Marty Appel
Year of birth:
1948
Marty Appel, American businessman and author
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DEATHS ON AUGUST 7
Ramon Vila Capdevila
Year of death:
1963
Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (born 1908)
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Giovanni Bracco
Year of death:
1968
Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (born 1908)
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Joseph Kosma
Year of death:
1969
Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (born 1905)
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Jonathan P. Jackson
Year of death:
1970
Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard and kidnapper (born 1953)
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Luis Ángel Firpo
Year of death:
1960
Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (born 1894)
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Oliver Hardy
Year of death:
1957
Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (born 1892)
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Konstantin Stanislavski
Year of death:
1938
Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (born 1863)
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Rabindranath Tagore
Year of death:
1941
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
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Charles Bryant (actor)
Year of death:
1948
Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (born 1879)
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Abner Powell
Year of death:
1953
Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (born 1860)
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HOLIDAYS ON AUGUST 7
August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian feast day: August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Pope Sixtus II
Christian feast day: Pope Sixtus II
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Filseta
Christian feast day: Filseta (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
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Youth Day
Youth Day (Kiribati)
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Purple Heart
National Purple Heart Day (United States)
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John Mason Neale
Christian feast day: John Mason Neale (Episcopal Church (USA))
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Donatus of Muenstereifel
Christian feast day: Donatus of Muenstereifel
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Saint Cajetan
Christian feast day: Cajetan of Thienna
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Dometius of Persia
Christian feast day: Dometius of Persia
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Albert of Trapani
Christian feast day: Albert of Trapani
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