August 7th

August 7th is the 219th (two hundred and nineteenth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 220 (two hundred and twentieth) day of the year in leap years. There are 146 days left to end the year.

Events

• 480 B.C.: in Greece, a likely date when Persians and Greeks wage the battle of the Thermopiles.
• 768: In Rome, the aristocrat Stephen III is crowned as a Pope of the Catholic Church. He will die in 772.
• 1028: Alfonso V de León died while the square of Viseu in Portugal died of an arrow.
• 1711: the Hippodrome of Ascot is founded. Days later his first horse race is celebrated.
• 1735: in Ecuador is founded the village of Santísima Villa Rica de la Bendita Providencia de San Cayetano de Chone desta Nuestra Nueva Castilla (current Chone).
• 1819: With the victory in the battle of Boyacá, Colombia is independent of the Kingdom of Spain.
• 1825: In Peru, Venezuelan general Simon Bolivar founded the Glorious National College of San Carlos.
• 1839: the Pulkovo Observatory was inaugurated.
• 1858: In London, Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
• 1890: In Buenos Aires, after the resignation of President Miguel Juárez Celman, Carlos Pellegrini assumes the presidency.
• 1911: In Santiago de Chile, the Hospital of Emergency and Public Assistance "Dr. Alejandro del Río" was opened.
• 1919: In Spain, Congress approves the opinion concerning the entry of this country into the League of Nations.
• 1924: in Lima (Peru), the University Federation of Football (current Club of Sports).
• 1924: In Barranquilla (Colombia) the Youth Junior football team was founded (current Atlético Junior).
• 1926: In Brooklands (United Kingdom) the first car racing championship is held.
• 1933: In the Simele massacre (Irak), more than 3000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi soldiers.
• 1942: In the Solomon Islands (Oceanía), American marines begin the assault on Guadalcanal.
• 1956: in the city of Cali (Colombia) the Explosion of Cali occurs: they explode seven army trucks loaded with 42 tons of explosive gelatinous plastic, leaving a crater of 50 meters in diameter for 25 meters in depth. At least 4000 people die and there are about 12,000 injuries left.

The U.S. Navy Goodyear ZSG-3 Blimp (unmanned) was set to fly about 9 km from the detonation of the Stokes atomic bomb to test the effects of heat and pressure shock. Behind is the atomic fungus.

• 1957: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:25 a.m. (local time) United States detonates its 19 kiloton Stokes atomic bomb. It's the 1129 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: in Colombia, Alberto Lleras Camargo assumes as president for the second time.
• 1959: The United States launches Explorer 6 to take the first picture of the Earth from a satellite.
• 1960: in Africa, Ivory Coast is independent of France.
• 1961: the Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov orbits the Earth for a full day on the ship Vostok 2.
• 1962: in Colombia, Guillermo León Valencia assumes as president.
• 1963: In Rajadell, Spain, the Guardia Civil strikes in ambushes and kills Ramon Vila, an anti-francist guerrilla who had fought on the republican side during the Spanish civil war and against the Germans in France.
• 1963: The United Nations Security Council prohibits the sale of arms to South Africa.
• 1964: The United States officially enters the Vietnam War after it has approved a bombing in North Vietnamese territory.
• 1966: in Colombia, Carlos Lleras Restrepo assumes as president.
• 1970: In Colombia, Misael Pastrana assumes as president.
• 1974: in Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen assumes as president.
• 1978: In Honduras, a military triumvirate carried out a coup d'etat and deposed General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (head of State).
• 1978: in Colombia, Julio César Turbay assumes as president.
• 1982: In Colombia, Belisario Betancur assumes as president.
• 1984: Iraq resumes the attack on Iran with missiles on the oil ships that sail through the Persian Gulf.
• 1986: In Colombia, Virgilio Barco assumes as president.
• 1987: the presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras formalize a plan for the pacification of the area.
• 1990: After the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, Turkey closes the pipeline that carried Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean.
• 1990: in Colombia, César Gaviria assumes as president.
• 1992: 39 nations attend the Conference on Disarmament, which derives from the signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
• 1994: in Yokohama, Japan, the X International AIDS Conference was held, which already affected 36.1 million people worldwide.
• 1994: in Colombia, Ernesto Samper assumes as president.
• 1996: Near Biescas (Huesca) 87 people die, and 183 are injured as a result of a flood caused by a storm that dragged the Las Nieves.
• 1998: At the United States embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Arab Islamic Front Osama bin Laden perpetrates two attacks. 258 people die and some 5000 wounded
• 1998: in Colombia, Andrés Pastrana assumes as president.
• 2002: the Apple company releases its latest Mac Pro computer to the market after a year in advance, eliminating the PowerPC processor from its product line.
• 2002: In Colombia, Álvaro Uribe assumes as president for the period 2002-2006.
• 2006: In Colombia, Álvaro Uribe assumes as president for the second time for the period 2006-2010.
• 2007: American baseball player Barry Bonds connected the 756 quadrangular of his life, thus exceeding the record of all time in the hands of Hank Aaron (755).
• 2008: the war between Georgia and the pro-Russian autonomous republic of South Ossetia begins.
• 2010: in Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos assumes as president for the period 2010-2014.
• 2014: in Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos assumes as president for the second time for the period 2014-2018.
• 2015: in Argentina runs the last special train to La Pampa suspended on August 10
• 2018: In Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez assumes as president for the period 2018-2022.
• 2022: In Colombia, Gustavo Francisco Petro assumes as president for the period 2022-2026.

Births

• 317: Constant II, Roman emperor (f. 361).
• 980: Avicena (Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abd Allah IBN SINA), Persian physician and philosopher (f. 1037).
• 1533: Alonso de Ercilla, soldier and Spanish poet (f. 1594).
• 1560: Isabel Báthory, aristocrat and Hungarian serial killer (f. 1614).
• 1676: Alberto de Churriguera, Spanish architect (f. 1750).
• 1783: John Heathcoat, British inventor (f. 1861).
• 1829: Just Pastor Davila, Peruvian military (f. 1901).
• 1867: Emil Nolde, German Expressionist painter (f. 1956).
• 1869: Mary Frances Winston Newson, American Mathematical (f. 1959)
• 1870: Gustav Krupp, industrial and financial German (f. 1950)
• 1872: Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, a Dutch politician (f. 1957).
• 1874: Alfredo Pérez Garza, Mexican politician (f. 1954).
• 1876: Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer and spy (f. 1917).
• 1877: Ulrich Salchow, Swedish skater (f. 1949).
• 1885: Billie Burke, American actress (f. 1970).
• 1885: José Gálvez Barrenechea, a Peruvian politician and poet (f. 1957).
• 1894: Avelino González Mallada, Spanish anarchist (f. 1938).
• 1896: Alberto Demicheli, politician and Uruguayan dictator (f. 1980).
• 1902: Ann Harding, American actress (f. 1981).
• 1903: Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (f. 1972).
• 1903: Maria Reining, Austrian soprano (f. 1991).
• 1904: Ralph Bunche, U.S. diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 (f. 1971).
• 1907: Lucy Cranwell, New Zealand botany (f. 2000)
• 1911: Nicholas Ray, American filmmaker (f. 1979).
• 1921: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (f. 2014).
• 1921: José Beulas, landscape painter (f. 2017).
• 1923: Licinio de la Fuente, politician and Spanish businessman (f. 2015).
• 1926: Nelly Prono, Paraguayan actress (f. 1997).
• 1927: Carl Switzer, an American actor; he represented Alfalfa in The Pandilla (f. 1959).
• 1928: James Randi, Canadian magician.
• 1929: Carlos Martínez Sotomayor, lawyer, diplomat and Chilean politician (f. 2006).
• 1932: Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (f. 1973).
• 1933: Elinor Ostrom, U.S. Polythologist, Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2009 (f. 2012)
• 1933: Irma Lanzas, a Salvadoran writer (f. 2020).
• 1938: Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Spanish writer, president of the Royal Gallega Academy.
• 1938: Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, antinuclear activist.
• 1940: Jean Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician (f. 2014).
• 1942: Tobin Bell, an American actor.
• 1942: Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (f. 1995).
• 1942: B.J. Thomas, American singer (f. 2021).
• 1942: Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer.
• 1943: Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (f. 2010).
• 1945: Layda Sansores San Román, Mexican politics.
• 1946: John C. Mather, American astrophysicist and cosmologist, nobel prize of physics.
• 1947: Sofiya Rotaru, Ukrainian singer.
• 1947: Luis Mariñas, Spanish journalist (f. 2010).
• 1948: Pau Riba, Spanish musician and artist (f. 2022).
• 1948: César Hildebrandt, Peruvian journalist.
• 1948: James P. Allison, American immunologist.
• 1951: Pete Way, British musician (f. 2020).
• 1954: Antonio Resines, Spanish actor.
• 1956: Leticia Perdigón, Mexican actress.
• 1957: Mareta Espinosa, Spanish artist.
• 1958: Bruce Dickinson, British singer, Iron Maiden band.
• 1960: David Duchovny, American actor.
• 1960: Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress.
• 1961: Carlos Vives, singer of vallenato, actor and Colombian composer.
• 1962: Michael Weikath, German composer.
• 1962: Adriano Baffi, Italian cyclist.
• 1963: Osvaldo Bazán, Argentine journalist.
• 1963: Harold Perrineau, American actor.
• 1964: Ian Dench, composer, musician, guitarist, British of the EMF band.
• 1965: Jocelyn Angloma, French footballer.
• 1966: Jimmy Wales, American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia.
• 1966: Corbinian Böhm, German sculptor.
• 1966: Patrick Aduma, Nigerian-Argentine actor (f. 2010)
• 1967: Gilberto Angelucci, soccer player and Venezuelan coach.
• 1968: Pepe Aguilar, Mexican singer.
• 1969: Paul Lambert, soccer player and Scottish coach.
• 1972: Daniel Salaverry, a Peruvian politician and businessman.
• 1972: Nobuhito Toriizuka, Japanese footballer.
• 1972: Piotr Przybecki, Polish basketball player.
• 1972: Goran Vlaović, Croatian footballer.
• 1972: Anneliese Anglberger, Austrian Yudoca.
• 1974: Blanca Lewin, Chilean actress.
• 1974: Jun Mizuno, Japanese footballer.
• 1975: David Hicks, an Australian terrorist.
• 1975: Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player.
• 1975: Charlize Theron, South African actress.
• 1975: Megan Gale, Australian model.
• 1976: Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer.
• 1977: Paula Echevarría, Spanish actress.
• 1977: Mitsumasa Yoda, Japanese footballer.
• 1977: Edgar Patricio de Carvalho Pacheco, Angolan footballer.
• 1977: Miodrag Anđelković, Yugoslav footballer.
• 1978: Alexandre Aja, French filmmaker.
• 1978: Jamey Jasta, American singer of Hatebreed.
• 1978: Linsey Dawn McKenzie, British porn model and actress.
• 1978: Katxorro, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Nenad Đorđević, Serbian footballer.
• 1979: Seiji Koga, Japanese footballer.
• 1980: Seiichirō Maki, Japanese footballer.
• 1980: Shane Moody-Orio, Belizean footballer.
• 1980: Rubén Pérez Chueca, Spanish footballer.
• 1982: Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player.
• 1982: Ignacio Garmendia, Chilean actor.
• 1982: Andre Birleanu, Russian model.
• 1982: Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer.
• 1982: Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball.
• 1982: Marco Melandri, Italian bike rider.
• 1982: Iosif Daskalakis, Greek footballer.
• 1983: Christian Chávez, Mexican actor and singer.
• 1983: Mario Camacho, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1983: Danny Alves, Venezuelan footballer.
• 1983: Andri Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist.
• 1983: Tina O'Brien, English actress.
• 1983: Jan Hajek, Czech tennis player.
• 1983: Leandro Guilheiro, yudoca brazilian.
• 1983: Diana Aguavil, Cuban politics.
• 1984: Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet (f. 2003)
• 1984: Angel Lafita, Spanish footballer.
• 1984: Michele Merlo, Italian cyclist.
• 1985: Daniel Gimeno Traver, Spanish tennis player.
• 1986: Altair Jarabo, Mexican actress.
• 1986: Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer.
• 1986: Paul Biedermann, German swimmer.
• 1986: Wataru Inoue, Japanese footballer.
• 1986: Francisco Paz, Nicaraguan footballer.
• 1987: Ryoji Fukui, Japanese footballer.
• 1987: Razane Jammal, actress, model and British-Lebanese singer
• 1987: Sidney Crosby, ice hockey player
• 1988: Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer.
• 1988: Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer.
• 1988: Jun Shimanuki, Japanese footballer.
• 1988: Zoran Kvržić, Bosnian footballer.
• 1988: Anikka Albrite, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 1989: Ramon Lopes, Brazilian footballer.
• 1989: Eugenio Lamanna, Italian footballer.
• 1990: Remueru Tekiate, a Fijian footballer.
• 1991: Mike Trout, American baseball player.
• 1991: Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer.
• 1991: Robin Frijns, Dutch motor racing pilot.
• 1991: Rodrigo Viega, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1992: Wout Weghorst, Dutch footballer.
• 1992: Takumi Miyayoshi, Japanese footballer.
• 1992: Masaaki Murakami, Japanese footballer.
• 1992: Ryosuke Tada, Japanese footballer.
• 1994: Kazuki Anzai, Japanese footballer.
• 1994: Toms Leimanis, Latvian basketball player.
• 1994: Jérémy Desplanches, Swiss swimmer.
• 1994: Milan Havel, Czech footballer.
• 1995: Yosei Otsu, Japanese footballer.
• 1995: Nicolas Bürgy, Swiss footballer.
• 1996: Liam James, Canadian actor.
• 1996: Dani Ceballos, Spanish footballer.
• 1996: Ashley Adams, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 1996: Hayato Araki, Japanese footballer.
• 1996: Rowoon singer, model and South Korean actor, member of the SF9 group
• 1996: Shun Kumagai, Japanese footballer.
• 1997: Evaluna Montaner, Venezuelan singer and actress.
• 1997: Marilena Widmer, Swiss footballer.
• 1997: Juninho Bacuna, Dutch footballer.
• 1998: Tabinas Jefferson, Japanese footballer.
• 1998: Claudia Abate Ortiz, Spanish actress.
• 1999: Andrés Jakos, an Argentine motor racing pilot.
• 1999: Bryan Mbeumo, French footballer.
• 1999: Mariah Angeliq, American singer.
• 1999: Kristal Awuah, British athlete.
• 1999: Sydney McLaughlin, American athlete.
• 2000: Lauren Hemp, English footballer.
• 2000: Nahuel Buchaillot, Argentine basketball.
• 2000: Samantha Borutta, German athlete.
• 2000: Jandro Orellana, Spanish footballer.
• 2001: Manuel Perera, Spanish bullfighter.
• 2002: Fredrik Oppegård, Norwegian footballer.
• 2003: Prisca Chesang, Ugandan athlete.
• 2003: Savannah Sutherland, Canadian athlete.
• 2003: Anastasia Gorbenko, Israeli swimmer.
• 2004: Olivier Aertssen, Dutch footballer.
• 2004: Hazuki Watanabe, Japanese art gymnast.
• 2007: Jordan Nash, British actor, singer and dancer.

Deaths

• 461: Majoriano, Roman emperor (n. 420).
• 479: Yūryaku, Japanese emperor (n. 418).
• 1028: Alfonso V de León, king of Leon (n. 994)
• 1106: Henry IV, Germanic aristocrat, emperor between 1084 and 1105 (n. 1050).
• 1547: St. Cayetano, Italian priest, founder of the order of the Athletes (n. 1480).
• 1616: Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (n. 1548).
• 1742: Francisca Josefa del Castillo, a Colombian religious and writer (n. 1671).
• 1817: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French businessman and economist (n. 1739).
• 1821: Carolina de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Queen Consort British (n. 1768).
• 1832: Ildefonso Catolis, Argentine military (n. 1782).
• 1834: Joseph Marie Jacquard, French hilar, inventor of pierced cards (n. 1752).
• 1834: Jean François Leval, French military (n. 1762).
• 1855: Mariano Arista, Mexican president (n. 1802).
• 1868: Pedro Ampudia, Mexican military and political of Cuban origin (n. 1805).
• 1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, a German politician (n. 1826).
• 1921: Aleksandr Blok, Russian poet (n. 1880).
• 1924: Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Spanish futuristic poet (n. 1894).
• 1925: Ricardo Mella, Spanish anarchist intellectual (n. 1861).
• 1941: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1913 (n. 1861).
• 1957: Oliver Hardy, American actor, Fat of the Duo Laurel and Hardy (n. 1892).
• 1960: Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (n. 1894).
• 1974: Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and writer (n. 1925).
• 1974: Virginia Apgar, American physician, founder of the field of neonology, creator of the Apgar test (n. 1909)
• 1984: Marcial Lafuente Estefanía, a Spanish writer (n. 1903).
• 1985: Blanca Luz Brum, Uruguayan poet (n. 1905).
• 1990: José Berruezo Silvente, politician and Spanish anarchist (n. 1895).
• 1992: Pablo Cumo, Argentine actor (n. 1898).
• 1992: Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, a Spanish politician (n. 1930).
• 2001: Larry Adler, American composer (n. 1914).
• 2004: Ismael Rodríguez, Mexican filmmaker (n. 1917).
• 2005: Peter Jennings, news anchor and Canadian journalist (n. 1938).
• 2005: Noel Nicola, Cuban musician, founder of the New Cuban Trova (n. 1946).
• 2006: Angel de Andrés, Spanish actor (n. 1918).
• 2007: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor (n. 1917).
• 2008: Juan Bustos, Chilean politician, president of the Chamber of Deputies (n. 1935).
• 2009: Willy DeVille, American singer and composer (n. 1950).
• 2010: Roberto Cantoral, Mexican composer (n. 1935).
• 2010: Bruno Cremer, French actor (n. 1929).
• 2011: Leo Mattioli, Argentine singer of cumbia (n. 1972).
• 2011: Nancy Wake, a New Zealander who acted as a British agent in World War II (n. 1912).
• 2011: Harri Holkeri, a Finnish politician (n. 1937).
• 2012: Francisco Carrasquer, Spanish writer and poet (n. 1915).
• 2015: Manuel Contreras, Chilean military (n. 1929), sentenced to more than 360 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the Chilean military dictatorship.
• 2016: Gustavo Bueno, Spanish philosopher (n. 1924).
• 2016: Dolores Castellón Vargas, Spanish singer (n. 1936).
• 2016: Nini Flores, accordionist and Argentine bandeoneonist (n. 1966).
• 2019: Kary Mullis, American biochemical (n. 1944).
• 2019: Fabio Zerpa, journalist, actor and Uruguayan-Argentine prologue (n. 1928).

Celebrations

• BoliviaBolivia:
  • FFAA Day.
• ColombiaColombia:
  • Battle of Boyacá.
  • Flag Day.
  • National Army Day.
• SpainSpain
  • Las fiestas de San Cayetano en el barrio de Lavapiés en Madrid.
  • The fiestas of San Cayetano in the neighborhood of Urbanova in Alicante.

Catholic saints list

• San Cayetano de Thiene
• Santa Afra de Augsburg
• San Alberto degli Abbati
• San Donaciano de Chalons
• San Donato de Arezzo
• San Donato de Besançon
• San Miguel de la Mora
• Saint Sixtus II (papapa)
• San Victricio de Rouen
• Beato Alberto de Sassoferrato
• Blessed Edmundo Bojanowski
• Beato Jordan Forzaté
• Beato Nicolás Postgate
• Blessed Vicente de L’Aquila