Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 7

1124: Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438: French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie
1456: Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acqui
1495: King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498: Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1543: French troops invade Luxembourg
1550: Chocolate introduced
1585: Huguenots loose all freedoms
1585: King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: Fr
1607: God Save the King is 1st sung
1647: People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Na
1668: Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713: 1st performance of Georg F H„ndel's To Deum & Jubilate
1753: English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754: Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768: Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1782: General George Washington establishes Order of the Purple
1789: Henry Knox named as First Secretary of War by U.S. War Dep
1790: Muskogian Indians sign peace treaty with George Washington
1801: Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802: 1st comic book The Wasp, is published
1807: France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814: Walter Scott's Waverley published
1829: Royal Military Chapel forms
1830: Louis Phillipe agrees to become Prince of France
1838: Central American federation is dissolved
1846: US annexs California
1847: George Page of Washington D.C. granted patent on a plow to
1850: Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1858: Ottowa was named as the Capital of Canda
1861: Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862: Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863: 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1863: Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoke
1864: S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1867: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #92 Undina
1868: Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v
1874: 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes offi
1875: Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878: Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1888: Patent for Revolving door given to Theophilus Van Kannel o
1891: Travelers checks patents
1898: US annexes Hawaii
1900: Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1904: A Charlois discovers asteroid #537 Pauly
1905: 127øF (53øC), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908: Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1913: British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1914: Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie
1914: Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading
1914: Spain declares herself neutral in World War I
1918: Second battle of the Marne ends with German retreat.
1919: Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1923: University of Delaware invents junior year abroad (at So
1923: University of Delaware invents junior year abroad (at So
1924: Ejnar Hertzsprung discovers asteroid #1702 Kalahari
1924: Ejnar Hertzsprung discovers asteroid #1702 Kalahari
1924: Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5
1924: Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5
1928: Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11
1929: Romania & Vatican sign concord
1930: Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1934: Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championshi
1937: Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), beco
1941: Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941: US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1942: Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942: Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all
1943: -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943: 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943: Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943: Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943: U-951 sunk
1944: Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944: Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American sa
1948: 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US
1948: Cleveland Indians sign Leroy Satchel Paige
1948: Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1949: Cabatgata (A Night in Spain) opens at Broadway NYC for 7
1949: Dragnet premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951
1950: 1st Farnborough airshow held
1952: SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1954: T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1956: 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of
1956: Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 build
1956: Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera Ballad of Baby Doe, p
1957: Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1958: Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1959: First photographs taken of Earth from space from Explorer
1960: Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1960: USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
1961: James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962: Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964: All star MVP: John Callison (Phila Phillies)
1965: Otis Redding records Respect
1967: Beatles' All You Need is Love is released
1967: Doors' Light My Fire hits #1
1968: Rock group Yardbirds disband
1969: Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-Engl
1969: Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war cri
1972: 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne
1972: Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1973: 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973: All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentuc
1973: Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
1973: Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
1973: Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1974: Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at
1975: TV soap opera Ryan's Hope premieres
1976: E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
1976: Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy dire
1976: Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1977: 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978: E Bowell discovers asteroid #7270 Punkin
1978: Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
1980: 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
1980: Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supre
1980: Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368
1980: Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29t
1980: Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing
1980: Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1981: 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses Engl
1981: Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is di
1981: Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1982: David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
1982: Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
1983: 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves fo
1984: 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
1984: Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1986: IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986: It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addi
1986: Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986: Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction l
1986: US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987: Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
1987: Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987: Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra
1987: Lynne Cox is first to swim 2.7 mi. Bering Strait channel b
1987: Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat
1988: Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsu
1990: NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starik
1991: E F Helin discovers asteroid #5917
1991: Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
1993: Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993: NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes t
1993: Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1993: Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley
1993: the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $
1994: Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lamb
1994: Les Miserables, opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1994: North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1995: Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
1995: Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
1996: Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
1997: Tower Minn temps dip to 24øF
2002: Tehelka Reporter Mr. Anirudh Bahal was arrested and later

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