August 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 7. From 1900 until now. August 7 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Charlize Theron (1975), David Duchovny (1960) and Bruce Dickinson (1958). Several movies were released around August 7 over the years, such as Sholay in 1975 directed by Ramesh Sippy and Sweethearts on Parade in 1930 directed by Marshall Neilan.
But much more happened on August 7 over the years: find out below

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2018 Caracas drone explosions, Colombia–Venezuela relations: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says that he has "hard evidence" that the Colombian government planned and executed an attempted assassination attack on him on Saturday, and that he will release it later in the day. (Al Jazeera)
2017 Godzilla in popular culture: Haruo Nakajima, who portrayed the monster Godzilla from 1954 to 1972, dies at the age of 88. (Daily Mail)
2016 2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers: ISIL claims responsibility for the machete attack in Belgium. (Reuters)
2015 Suspected Islamist militants stormed two hotels in central Mali where UN peacekeepers were housed, seizing at least ten hostages and killing three Malian soldiers and a U.N. peacekeeper. (The Times of Oman), (Reuters)
2014 The Islamic State captures a range of cities inhabited primarily by Assyrian/Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq, notably Bakhdida, Bartella, Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Karamlish and Tel Isqof; thousands flee, while many Yazidis are caught in the newly-captured city of Sinjar. (BBC) (Al-Jazeera)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The Syrian Army launches a large missile on the southern Damascus neighborhood of Yarmouk, largely inhabited by Palestinian refugees. (Now Lebanon)
2012 Mexican Drug War: The United States freezes the assets of three Belize-based associates of Mexico's top drug lord, Joaquín ampquotEl Chapoampquot Guzmán. (The Huffington Post)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising:
2010 Bowers and Merena Auctions conducts an auction in Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 The leaders of three South African opposition parties urge President Jacob Zuma to withdraw his statement on the nomination of Sandile Ngcobo to replace outgoing Chief Justice Pius Langa, calling it ampquotunconstitutionalampquot. (IOL)
2008 Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
2007 At AT&T Park in San Francisco, California, San Francisco Giants' player Barry Bonds surpasses Hank Aaron as the all-time home run leader with his 756th home run. During the 10-minute celebration following the historic homer, a video message is played on the scoreboard in which Aaron congratulates the left fielder for breaking the 33-year old record.
2006 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
2005 Peter Jennings, long-time anchor of ABC World News Tonight, has died from lung cancer at the age of 67. (ABC News)
2004 In the Asian Cup 2004 soccer final, Japan defeats China 3–1, prompting clashes between Chinese fans and police in Beijing. A Japanese diplomat's car is attacked and the Japanese players and fans are bussed out from Workers' Stadium, under guard. (Asian Cup Official Website) (BBC)
2003 2003 California recall: Republican Darrell Issa, the person behind the effort of recall election of Gray Davis, quickly and without warning dropped out of the gubernatorial race.
2002 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces kill six Palestinians: Israeli undercover soldiers kill four Palestinian militants wound three in a gun-fight in Tulkarm. An Israeli sniper kills Hussam Hamdan, a member of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops and 30 tanks push into northern Gaza, killing a Palestinian policeman. These come in response to the attacks of August 4 listed above.
1999 Second Chechen War began.
1998 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
1995 Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered ceasefire; remaining Republic of Serbian Krajina forces start surrendering.
1994 Hedda Gabler closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
1993 Camelot closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
1992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
1990 Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion.
1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (Democrat-Texas) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1988 Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
1987 Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
1986 Honky Tonk Nights opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
1985 Barbra Streisand records Broadway Album
1984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing New York Yankees.
1983 Merlin closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
1982 Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.
1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1980 Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
1979 Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
1977 Shenandoah closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
1976 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
1974 Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
1970 Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
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.
1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
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.
1964 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
1963 Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 Explorer 6 transmits first TV photo of Earth from space.
1956 Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
1954 Golden Apple closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
1953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet.
1951 US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
1949 All after Love closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 performances
1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1946 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1945 The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate, and this nation becomes the third one to join the new international organization.
1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania.
1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
1938 Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
1935 60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
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.
1930 2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
1929 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
1927 US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
1925 League of Nation advises against Turk / Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
1921 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
1916 WWI: Portugal joins the Allies.
1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores
1914 British Gloucester vs. German Breslau / Goeben off Greece
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president.
1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
1907 Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
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