August 07

Sunday 07, 2005:

Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer at age 67. The United States and his birth country of Canada goes into mourning the day after.

Friday 07, 1998:

1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.

Thursday 07, 1997:

Fine Air Flight 101, a cargo flight from Miami to Santo Domingo crashes onto NW 72nd Ave near Miami International Airport, killing five people.

Monday 07, 1995:

Operation Storm is officialy declared over in Croatia, resulting in total Croat victory over rebel Serb forces.

Tuesday 07, 1990:

1990 - 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.

Monday 07, 1989:

US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

Sunday 07, 1988:

Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park

Wednesday 07, 1985:

Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

Friday 07, 1981:

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

Monday 07, 1978:

United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.

Saturday 07, 1976:

Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.

Friday 07, 1970:

Harold Haley, California Judge taken hostage and murdered in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

Monday 07, 1967:

Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

Sunday 07, 1966:

Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.

Saturday 07, 1965:

Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.

Friday 07, 1964:

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.

Sunday 07, 1960:

Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.

Friday 07, 1959:

Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Sunday 07, 1955:

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.

Friday 07, 1953:

Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803 (this is disputed by some).

Thursday 07, 1947:

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

Tuesday 07, 1945:

President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with a atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Monday 07, 1944:

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

Friday 07, 1942:

US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Sunday 07, 1927:

Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

Thursday 07, 1879:

opening of Poor Man's Palace in Manchester

Saturday 07, 1819:

Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

Thursday 07, 1794:

Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.

Friday 07, 1789:

The United States War Department is established.

Wednesday 07, 1782:

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.

Monday 07, 1679:

The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

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