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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1400-08-07 - Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474)
1533-08-07 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1560-08-07 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
1574-08-07 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
1598-08-07 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
1726-08-07 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
1742-08-07 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
1779-08-07 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
1779-08-07 - Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
1844-08-07 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
1860-08-07 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1867-08-07 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
1876-08-07 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1877-08-07 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
1885-08-07 - Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
1901-08-07 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
1903-08-07 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
1904-08-07 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
1907-08-07 - Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter of the New York School (d. 1980)
1911-08-07 - Nicholas Ray, American actor, director and scenarist (d. 1979)
1913-08-07 - George Van Eps, noted American guitarist (d. 1998)
1921-08-07 - Manitas de Plata, gypsy guitarist
1925-08-07 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1925-08-07 - Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
1926-08-07 - Stan Freberg, American voice comedian
1927-08-07 - Edwin W. Edwards, four-term Louisiana governor
1927-08-07 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (d. 2003)
1927-08-07 - Carl Switzer, American child actor (d. 1959)
1928-08-07 - James Randi, Canadian magician
1929-08-07 - Don Larsen, baseball player
1932-08-07 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopan athlete
1932-08-07 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
1932-08-07 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
1936-08-07 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist
1939-08-07 - Anjanette Comer, American actress
1940-08-07 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium
1942-08-07 - Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
1942-08-07 - B.J. Thomas, American singer
1942-08-07 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1943-08-07 - Dino Valente, American musician Quicksilver Messenger Service (d. 1994)
1943-08-07 - Alain Corneau, French film director
1944-08-07 - David Rasche, American actor
1945-08-07 - Alan Page, American football player
1946-08-07 - Ed Seykota, commodities and futures trader
1947-08-07 - Franciscus Henri (Franciscus Henricus Antheunis), children's entertainer, composer and artist
1948-08-07 - Greg Chappell, Australian test cricket player, captain and coach
1949-08-07 - Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Lebanese Druze
1952-08-07 - Alexei Sayle, British comedian
1953-08-07 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist
1953-08-07 - Anne Fadiman, American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman
1954-08-07 - Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
1955-08-07 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
1955-08-07 - Wayne Knight, American actor
1957-08-07 - Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
1958-08-07 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1960-08-07 - David Duchovny, American actor
1961-08-07 - Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
1962-08-07 - Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
1963-08-07 - Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
1964-08-07 - Michael Weishan, American TV host, author
1966-08-07 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
1967-08-07 - Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
1973-08-07 - Danny Graves, American baseball player
1973-08-07 - Anthony Minnuto, American writer
1975-08-07 - Edgar Renteria, Colombian baseball player
1975-08-07 - David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
1975-08-07 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
1975-08-07 - Michael Wheeler, American .Net Developer
1978-08-07 - Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
1978-08-07 - Alexandre Aja, French director
1978-08-07 - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
1978-08-07 - Linsey Dawn McKenzie, English model and porn star
1978-08-07 - Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1980-08-07 - Aurélie Claudel, French supermodel
1982-08-07 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
1983-08-07 - Tina O'Brien, British actress
1985-08-07 - Ricardo Campanario, British student
1987-08-07 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
Bizarre
2006-08-07 - National Lighthouse Day
2007-08-07 - National Lighthouse Day
Deaths
1106-08-07 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1485-08-07 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
1613-08-07 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1616-08-07 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
1635-08-07 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1639-08-07 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
1817-08-07 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1834-08-07 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1848-08-07 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855-08-07 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1912-08-07 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
1917-08-07 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
1938-08-07 - Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. 1863)
1941-08-07 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
1957-08-07 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
1969-08-07 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
1974-08-07 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1974-08-07 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1984-08-07 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
1985-08-07 - Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
1989-08-07 - Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
1992-08-07 - John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
1995-08-07 - Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
1999-08-07 - Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
2003-08-07 - Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2004-08-07 - Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
2004-08-07 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2005-08-07 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
2006-08-07 - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
1986-08-07 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
2051-08-07 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor
2013-08-07 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
2051-08-07 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I
Declared
2007-08-07 - BC Day - Province of Canada.
2007-08-07 - Civic Holiday - Canada.
2007-08-07 - Emancipation Day - Turks and Caicos Islands.
Events
1998-08-07 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500.
1999-08-07 - A group of Indian army veterans launch the political party Rashtriya Raksha Dal.
2005-08-07 - Russian Priz class mini-submarine AS-28 and its seven crewmembers are rescued off the Pacific coast
2006-08-07 - Thermae Bath Spa opens in Bath, after six years of delays and escalating costs.
1679-08-07 - 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.
1782-08-07 - 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.
1789-08-07 - The United States War Department is established.
1794-08-07 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1807-08-07 - The Clermont, designed by American engineer Robert Fulton — embarked on its maiden voyage.
1819-08-07 - Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1879-08-07 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
1888-08-07 - Jack the Ripper commits the first of his murders around London's East End.
1927-08-07 - The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1933-08-07 - The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs day.
1942-08-07 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944-08-07 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945-08-07 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1947-08-07 - 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 (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947-08-07 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1955-08-07 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
1959-08-07 - Cent (United States coin): Lincoln Memorial Design on reverse debuted
1959-08-07 - Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960-08-07 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1964-08-07 - 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.
1966-08-07 - Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
1967-08-07 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
1970-08-07 - California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1973-08-07 - NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
1976-08-07 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
1978-08-07 - United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1985-08-07 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1988-08-07 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
1989-08-07 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990-08-07 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
1991-08-07 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1995-08-07 - Operation Storm is officially declared over in Croatia, resulting in total Croat victory over rebel Serb forces.
1998-08-07 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
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