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On this day - August 7

461 — Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in ...

626 — The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

768 — Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks ...

936 — Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

1461 — The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a ...

1479 — Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were ...

1679 — The brigantine Le Griffon becomes the first ship to sail the ...

1714 — The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the ...

1743 — The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.

1782 — George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military ...

1786 — The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United ...

1789 — The United States Department of War is established.

1791 — American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near ...

1794 — U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of ...

1819 — Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

1858 — The first Australian rules football match is played between ...

1890 — Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, ...

1909 — Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women ...

1926 — The first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands.

1927 — The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, ...

1930 — The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern ...

1933 — The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the ...

1942 — World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United ...

1944 — IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the ...

1946 — The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its ...

1947 — The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the ...

1947 — Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes ...

1959 — Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic ...

1960 — Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.

1962 — Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is ...

1964 — Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin ...

1969 — Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux ...

1970 — California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his ...

1974 — Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin ...

1976 — Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

1978 — U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at ...

1981 — The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of ...

1985 — Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be ...

1987 — Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the ...

1989 — The National Cold Fusion Institute opened in Salt Lake City.

1989 — U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a ...

1990 — First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the ...

1993 — Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the ...

1995 — The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the ...

1997 — Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami ...

1997 — Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on ...

1998 — Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ...

1999 — The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades ...

2007 — At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run ...

2008 — The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of ...

2020 — Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut ...