Major Events
- 1461 Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
- 1714 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden
- 1933 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
- 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
- 1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield
- 2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
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Did You Know?
Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
Constantius II
Elizabeth Báthory
Nathanael Greene
François Darlan
Louis Leakey
Ralph Bunche
Charlize Theron
Mata Hari
Abebe Bikila
Greg Chappell
Alberto Salazar
Fun Fact About August 7
Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, first organized witch trials
Famous Weddings
- 1869 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
- 1936 American "The Flintstones" animator William Hanna (26) weds Violet Blanch Wogatzke (23), until his death in 2001
- 1954 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
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Henry IV
Rabindranath Tagore
Oliver Hardy
Peter Jennings
Stan Mikita
