August 7 holidays in 2019

Historical Events on August 7

• 322 B.C.: The Battle of Crannon begins between Athens and Macedonia.
• 461 A.D.: Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded.
• 936: King Otto I of Germany is coronated.
• 1782:S President George Washington creates the Badge of Military Merit. It would later be renamed the Purple Heart.
• 1789: The U.S Department of War is created.
• 1791: During the Northwest Indian War, American troops destroy the town of Kenapacomaqua in Indiana.
• 1794: United States President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania.
• 1938: Construction on the Mauthausen concentration camp began in Austria.
• 1940: Nazi Germany annexes Alsace-Lorraine.
• 1942: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins.
• 1964: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to engage in warfare against the North Vietnamese.
• 1974: Philippe Petit walks on a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center at a height of over 1300 feet in the air.
• 1976: Viking 2 enters its orbit around the planet Mars.
• 1978: United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal because of all of the toxic waste that was disposed of in the area.
• 1979: Woodstock, Canada is struck by several tornadoes.
• 1985: Three people are chosen for Japan’s space program: Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are Japan’s first astronauts.

Famous Birthdays on August 7

• Cuban librarian Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez is born in 1955.
• Russian author and playwright Vladimir Sorokin is born in 1955.
• American guitarist Sharon Isbin is born in 1956.
• American actor, director, writer and producer David Duchovny is born in 1960.
• English actor and singer Brian Conley is born in 1961.
• American Actor Chico Benymon is born in 1974.
• American actor Michael Shannon is born in 1974.
• American actor, screenwriter and director Eric Johnson is born in 1979.