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The 7t o August is the 219t day o the year (220t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 146 days ti come.

Events

1942: American troops on Guadalcanal

1976: Viking spacecraft

1316 - Pape John XXII is electit.
1884 - Germany taks control o Sooth-Wast Africae.
1942 - Warld War II Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces land on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft reaches the Tuamotu Islands in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean, efter a 7,000-mile journey frae Peru.
1959 - The Explorer 6 spacecraft launches frae Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 - Ivory Coast gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
1971 - Apollo 15 returns tae the Yird frae the Muin.
1974 - French heich-wire airtist Philippe Petit crosses atween the Twin Towers o the Warld Trade Center in New York Ceety on a wire.
1976 - The Viking 2 space probe enters intae orbit aroond Maurs.
1987 - American soummer Lynne Cox soumms the "Ice Curtain" atween the Diomede Islands, ane o which is American, an ane o which is Roushie (then-Soviet).
1998 - Bombins, bi Islamist terrorists, o the Unitit States Embassies in Nairobi (Kenyae) an Dar es Salaam (Tanzanie) kill a total o 212 fowk.
2000 - Saturn's Muin "Ymir" is discovered.
2002 - Alvaro Uribe becomes Preses o Colombie.
2008 - Georgie carries oot a militar offensive in Sooth Ossetie.
2009 - Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan.
2010 - Juan Manuel Santos becomes Preses o Colombie.
2018 - US Preses Donald Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran.
2018 - Ivan Duque becomes Preses o Colombie.
2020 - Air India Express Flicht 1344 overruns the runway an crashes at Calicut Internaitional Airport in Kerala, Soothren Indie; 19 fowk are kilt.

317 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (d. 361)
1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian noblewumman an suspectit serial killer (d. 1614)
1872 - William Auchterlonie, Scots gowfer (d. 1963)
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer an spy (d. 1917)
1903 - Louis Leakey, Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1972)
1904 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (d. 1971)
1926 - Stan Freberg, American actor, writer an comedian (d. 2015)
1932 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopie runner (d. 1973)
1933 - Elinor Ostrom, American economist (d. 2012)
1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime meenister o Belgium (d. 2014)
1946 - John C. Mather, American astropheesicist an cosmologist
1947 - Sofia Rotaru, Soviet-Ukrainian sangster
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, Inglis sangster, sangwriter an muisicker (Iron Maiden)
1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
1966 - Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur, foondit Wikipaedia
1969 - Paul Lambert, Scots fitbawer
1975 - Charlize Theron, Sooth African actress
1980 - Euan Murray, Scots rugby union player
1981 - Robert Blair, Scots badminton player
1984 - Yun Hyon-seok, Sooth Korean activist (d. 2003)
1985 - Darren McGregor, Scots fitbawer
1987 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player

461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor
1106 - Henry IV, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1846 - John Baildon, Scots metallurgy pioneer (b. 1772)
1848 - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swadish chemist (b. 1779)
1941 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indie-Bengali writer, poet, philosopher an airtist (b. 1861)
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American actor an comedian (b. 1892)
2004 - Gordon Smith, Scots fitbawer (b. 1924)
2015 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist (b. 1914)