7 August

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

* 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.

## Births

* 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

## Daiths
* 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)

## Halidays
* Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
* Youth Day (Kiribati)