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On This Day: August 7
Today is Thursday, August 7, 2008. This is the 220th day of the year, with 146 days remaining in 2008.
Holidays:
Feast day of St. Donatus of Arezzo, St. Victricius, Saints Agapitus, Sixtus II and Felicissimus, St. Dogmetius the Persian, St. Albert of Trapani, St. Claudia, and St. Cajetan or Gaetano.
Colombia: Battle of Boyaca.
Cote d'Ivoire: National Day.
Events:
1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1914 - Germany invaded France.
1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1959 - The U.S. launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.
1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1971 - The Bee Gees' first No. 1 hit
1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.
1981 - After 128 years of publication, "The Washington Star" ceased all operations.
1987 - The presidents of five Central American nations, met in Guatemala City, and signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1998 - The U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed killing 224 people and injuring over 5,500. Osama bin Laden was later indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in connection with the attacks.
2002 - Saudi Arabia's Prince Saud told the Associated Press that the Saudi royal family could not give the U.S. access to bases in the kingdom for an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In the same statement, it was said that the kingdom did not plan to expel American forces from an air base used for flights to monitor Iraq.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.
2003 - Stephen Geppi bought a 1963 G.I. Joe prototype for $200,000.
2004 - In Baghdad, Iraq, closed Al-Jazeera's office to close for 30 days for inciting violence.
2005 - Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned in protest of Israel's upcoming Gaza pullout.
2005 - Trapped Russian sub rescued
Births:
1742 - Nathanael Greene, general American Revolutionary War.
1876 - Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle), Dutch-born dancer, courtesan, double agent.
1903 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist.
1942 - Garrison Keillor, American humorist, radio host.
Deaths:
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American film comedian who teamed up with Stan Laurel to form the comic team of Laurel and Hardy.
Today is Thursday, August 7, 2008. This is the 220th day of the year, with 146 days remaining in 2008.
Holidays:
Feast day of St. Donatus of Arezzo, St. Victricius, Saints Agapitus, Sixtus II and Felicissimus, St. Dogmetius the Persian, St. Albert of Trapani, St. Claudia, and St. Cajetan or Gaetano.
Colombia: Battle of Boyaca.
Cote d'Ivoire: National Day.
Events:
1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1914 - Germany invaded France.
1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1959 - The U.S. launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.
1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1971 - The Bee Gees' first No. 1 hit
1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.
1981 - After 128 years of publication, "The Washington Star" ceased all operations.
1987 - The presidents of five Central American nations, met in Guatemala City, and signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1998 - The U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed killing 224 people and injuring over 5,500. Osama bin Laden was later indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in connection with the attacks.
2002 - Saudi Arabia's Prince Saud told the Associated Press that the Saudi royal family could not give the U.S. access to bases in the kingdom for an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In the same statement, it was said that the kingdom did not plan to expel American forces from an air base used for flights to monitor Iraq.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.
2003 - Stephen Geppi bought a 1963 G.I. Joe prototype for $200,000.
2004 - In Baghdad, Iraq, closed Al-Jazeera's office to close for 30 days for inciting violence.
2005 - Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned in protest of Israel's upcoming Gaza pullout.
2005 - Trapped Russian sub rescued
Births:
1742 - Nathanael Greene, general American Revolutionary War.
1876 - Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle), Dutch-born dancer, courtesan, double agent.
1903 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist.
1942 - Garrison Keillor, American humorist, radio host.
Deaths:
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American film comedian who teamed up with Stan Laurel to form the comic team of Laurel and Hardy.