Tukuk-OS📅 August 7
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on August 7? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2020 — Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India, and crashed, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
Air India Express Flight 1344Calicut International AirportKerala
- 1998 — Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.
1998 United States embassy bombingsList of diplomatic missions of the United StatesDar es Salaam
- 1987 — Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
- 1985 — Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.
- 1970 — Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, resulting in the deaths of judge Harold Haley and three others.
Jonathan P. JacksonMarin County Civic Center attacksMarin County, California
- 1955 — Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.
- 1946 — The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests of Turkey's fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis.
- 1944 — IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
- 1942 — World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi (pictured), Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
World War IIUnited States Marine CorpsBattle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo
- 1914 — The Battle of Mulhouse began with France's first attack of World War I in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the region of Alsace from Germany.
- 1909 — Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.
- 1897 — Mahdist War: Anglo-Egyptian soldiers clashed with Mahdist Sudanese rebels in the Battle of Abu Hamed.
- 1850 — The first section of the Great Northern Railway, now the southern section of the East Coast Main Line, opened between London and Peterborough.
- 1782 — The Badge of Military Merit (pictured), the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.
Badge of Military MeritPurple HeartMilitary awards and decorations
- 1744 — Prussia declared its intervention in the War of the Austrian Succession on behalf of Charles VII, beginning the Second Silesian War.
PrussiaWar of the Austrian SuccessionCharles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1461 — Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
Births
- 2000 — Lauren Hemp, English footballer
- 1999 — Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter
- 1998 — Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver
- 1998 — María Belén Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer
- 1998 — Jalen Hurts, American football player
- 1997 — Matty Cash, English-Polish footballer
- 1997 — Kyler Murray, American football player
- 1996 — Dani Ceballos, Spanish footballer
- 1993 — Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
- 1993 — Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
- 1992 — E. J. Tackett, American bowler
- 1992 — Wout Weghorst, Dutch footballer
Deaths
- 2025 — Myint Swe, retired army general and acting president of Myanmar (born 1951)
- 2024 — Jon McBride, American astronaut (born 1943)
- 2023 — William Friedkin, American film director (born 1935)
- 2022 — David McCullough, American historian and author (born 1933)
- 2021 — Markie Post, American actress (born 1950)
- 2021 — Trevor Moore, American comedian (born 1980)
- 2019 — David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (born 1967)
- 2018 — M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (born 1924)
- 2018 — Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (born 1940)
- 2017 — Don Baylor, American baseball player (born 1949)
- 2017 — David Maslanka, American composer (born 1943)
- 2016 — Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (born 1989)
Observances & holidays
- Assyrian Martyrs Day (Assyrian community)
- Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)
- Christian feast day: Afra
- Christian feast day: Albert of Trapani
- Christian feast day: Cajetan of Thienna
- Christian feast day:
Carpophorus and companions
Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus, and Licinius
- Christian feast day: Dometius of Persia
- Christian feast day: Donatus of Arezzo
- Christian feast day: Donatus of Besançon
- Christian feast day: Donatus of Muenstereifel
- Christian feast day:
Blessed Edward Bamber, John Woodcock and Thomas Whittaker
Edward BamberJohn Woodcock (martyr)Thomas Whittaker (martyr)
- Christian feast day: Felicissimus and Agapitus
- Christian feast day: John Mason Neale (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Nantovinus
- Christian feast day: Pope Sixtus II
- Christian feast day: August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Christian feast day: Filseta (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
- Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
- Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
- Youth Day (Kiribati)
- National Purple Heart Day (United States)
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