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07 Aug 0322
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Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon. |
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07 Aug 0461
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Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. |
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07 Aug 0626
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Battle at Constantinople: Slavic / Persians / Avarenvloot defeated
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07 Aug 0626
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The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople. |
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07 Aug 0768
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Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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07 Aug 0936
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Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
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07 Aug 0936
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Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. |
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07 Aug 1409
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Council of Pisa closes
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07 Aug 1420
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Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence. |
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07 Aug 1427
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The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River. |
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07 Aug 1461
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The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. |
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07 Aug 1479
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Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs. King Louis XI
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07 Aug 1485
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Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
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07 Aug 1498
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Columbus arrives in Caribbean
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07 Aug 1573
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Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
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07 Aug 1575
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Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
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07 Aug 1679
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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. |
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07 Aug 1710
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Earl van Godolphin resigns as English Minister of Finance
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07 Aug 1714
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The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. |
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07 Aug 1750
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Slave uprising on Curacao
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07 Aug 1760
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Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
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07 Aug 1782
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George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
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07 Aug 1782
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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. |
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07 Aug 1789
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Congress creates Department of War & Lighthouse Service
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07 Aug 1789
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The United States Department of War is established. |
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07 Aug 1791
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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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07 Aug 1794
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U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. |
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07 Aug 1802
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Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti)
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07 Aug 1814
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Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
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07 Aug 1819
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Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. |
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07 Aug 1820
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1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
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07 Aug 1858
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The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. |
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07 Aug 1867
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Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia
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07 Aug 1879
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The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England. |
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07 Aug 1882
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Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
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07 Aug 1884
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Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
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07 Aug 1885
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5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
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07 Aug 1888
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Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door
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07 Aug 1890
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Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder. |
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07 Aug 1893
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53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
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07 Aug 1900
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Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
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07 Aug 1904
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Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
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07 Aug 1907
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Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
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07 Aug 1909
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US issues 1st Lincoln penny
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07 Aug 1909
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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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07 Aug 1912
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Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President
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07 Aug 1914
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British Gloucester vs. German Breslau / Goeben off Greece
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07 Aug 1914
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French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
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07 Aug 1914
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French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
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07 Aug 1914
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German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
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07 Aug 1914
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Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you, " poster spreads over UK
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07 Aug 1915
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St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores
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07 Aug 1921
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Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
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07 Aug 1925
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League of Nation advises against Turk / Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
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07 Aug 1927
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Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated
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07 Aug 1927
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US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
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07 Aug 1927
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The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. |
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07 Aug 1929
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Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
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07 Aug 1929
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Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
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07 Aug 1930
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2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
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07 Aug 1930
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Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
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07 Aug 1930
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The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. |
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07 Aug 1933
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The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. |
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07 Aug 1935
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60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
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07 Aug 1938
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Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
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07 Aug 1938
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The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. |
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07 Aug 1940
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Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
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07 Aug 1940
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Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)
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07 Aug 1940
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World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich. |
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07 Aug 1941
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551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
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07 Aug 1942
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Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
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07 Aug 1942
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Transport 16 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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07 Aug 1942
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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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07 Aug 1943
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Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
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07 Aug 1944
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Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
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07 Aug 1944
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Canada / Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
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07 Aug 1944
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German counter attack at Avranches fails
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07 Aug 1944
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July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
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07 Aug 1944
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US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
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07 Aug 1944
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IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). |
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07 Aug 1946
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1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
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07 Aug 1946
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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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07 Aug 1947
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Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
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07 Aug 1947
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Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. |
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07 Aug 1947
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The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). |
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07 Aug 1948
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1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
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07 Aug 1948
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Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
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07 Aug 1949
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"All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 performances
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07 Aug 1950
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Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
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07 Aug 1951
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Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h
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07 Aug 1951
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US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
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07 Aug 1953
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Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
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07 Aug 1954
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Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
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07 Aug 1955
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Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
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07 Aug 1955
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KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS / NBC) begins
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07 Aug 1955
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Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. |
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07 Aug 1956
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Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
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07 Aug 1956
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British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
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07 Aug 1956
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Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
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07 Aug 1959
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Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
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07 Aug 1959
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The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008. |
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07 Aug 1959
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Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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07 Aug 1960
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Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
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07 Aug 1960
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Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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07 Aug 1960
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Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France. |
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07 Aug 1961
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Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
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07 Aug 1961
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Soviet Premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
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07 Aug 1963
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Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
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07 Aug 1964
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31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
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07 Aug 1964
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Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
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07 Aug 1964
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US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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07 Aug 1964
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Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. |
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07 Aug 1965
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The infamous first Reyes 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. |
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07 Aug 1966
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Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan. |
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07 Aug 1970
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1st computer chess tournament
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07 Aug 1970
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4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
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07 Aug 1970
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Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
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07 Aug 1970
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WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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07 Aug 1970
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California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. |
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07 Aug 1971
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Apollo 15 returns to Earth
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07 Aug 1972
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Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn
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07 Aug 1974
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Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
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07 Aug 1974
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Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
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07 Aug 1974
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Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. |
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07 Aug 1976
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Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
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07 Aug 1976
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Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
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07 Aug 1976
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US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
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07 Aug 1976
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Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. |
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07 Aug 1977
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"Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
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07 Aug 1978
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Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
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07 Aug 1978
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Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
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07 Aug 1978
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of. |
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07 Aug 1979
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Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities. |
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07 Aug 1980
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Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
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07 Aug 1981
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The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
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07 Aug 1983
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1st World Track and Field Championships
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07 Aug 1983
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65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera Country Club - Los Angeles
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07 Aug 1983
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Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
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07 Aug 1983
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Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
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07 Aug 1983
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Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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07 Aug 1983
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Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
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07 Aug 1984
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Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
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07 Aug 1984
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Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
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07 Aug 1985
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Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
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07 Aug 1985
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Baseball players end a 2 day strike
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07 Aug 1985
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Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
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07 Aug 1985
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The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England. |
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07 Aug 1986
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"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
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07 Aug 1986
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Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
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07 Aug 1987
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5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
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07 Aug 1987
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Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
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07 Aug 1987
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Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union |
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07 Aug 1988
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Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
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07 Aug 1988
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Writers guild end their 6 months strike
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07 Aug 1989
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U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
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07 Aug 1990
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Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
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07 Aug 1991
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Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
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07 Aug 1991
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Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
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07 Aug 1991
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Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
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07 Aug 1991
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US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
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07 Aug 1992
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Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
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07 Aug 1992
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Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
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07 Aug 1993
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"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
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07 Aug 1993
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Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
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07 Aug 1994
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"Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
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07 Aug 1994
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1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan
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07 Aug 1994
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Ernesto Samper sworn in as President of Colombia
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07 Aug 1997
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STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
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07 Aug 1998
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The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. |
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07 Aug 1999
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The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan. |
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07 Aug 2008
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The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. |
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