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August 7, 2003 An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 August 7, 1998 US embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200 August 7, 1997 STS 85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit August 7, 1997 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier August 7, 1994 "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances August 7, 1994 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan August 7, 1994 Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain August 7, 1994 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia August 7, 1993 "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances August 7, 1993 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed August 7, 1992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play August 7, 1992 Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants August 7, 1991 Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 " August 7, 1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents August 7, 1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR August 7, 1991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes August 7, 1991 U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds August 7, 1990 Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia August 7, 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome August 7, 1988 Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament August 7, 1988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike August 7, 1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala August 7, 1987 Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six August 7, 1987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea August 7, 1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances August 7, 1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina August 7, 1985 Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album" August 7, 1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike August 7, 1984 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in New York City August 7, 1984 Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball August 7, 1984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee August 7, 1983 "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances August 7, 1983 1st World Track and Field Championships August 7, 1983 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA August 7, 1983 Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium August 7, 1983 Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin) August 7, 1983 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic August 7, 1983 Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T August 7, 1980 Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed August 7, 1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame August 7, 1978 Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI August 7, 1977 "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances August 7, 1976 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open August 7, 1976 U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth August 7, 1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars August 7, 1974 Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band August 7, 1974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers August 7, 1972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn August 7, 1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth August 7, 1970 1st computer chess tournament August 7, 1970 Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac August 7, 1970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting August 7, 1970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) August 7, 1966 Race riot in Lansing, Michigan August 7, 1964 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) August 7, 1964 Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots August 7, 1964 U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution August 7, 1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland August 7, 1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. August 7, 1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 August 7, 1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. August 7, 1960 Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France August 7, 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches August 7, 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open August 7, 1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space August 7, 1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site August 7, 1956 Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans August 7, 1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt August 7, 1956 Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die August 7, 1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel August 7, 1955 KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins August 7, 1954 "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances August 7, 1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate August 7, 1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet August 7, 1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph August 7, 1951 U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record August 7, 1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League August 7, 1949 "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances August 7, 1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns August 7, 1948 Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) August 7, 1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef August 7, 1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter August 7, 1944 Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation August 7, 1944 German counter attack at Avranches fails August 7, 1944 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins August 7, 1944 U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany August 7, 1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov August 7, 1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands August 7, 1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway August 7, 1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany August 7, 1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania August 7, 1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile August 7, 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) August 7, 1938 2 die in a New York City subway accident August 7, 1938 Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run August 7, 1938 Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university August 7, 1935 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) August 7, 1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" August 7, 1930 Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government August 7, 1929 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government August 7, 1929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games August 7, 1927 Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated August 7, 1927 U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 August 7, 1925 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied August 7, 1921 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter August 7, 1915 Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die August 7, 1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores August 7, 1914 British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece August 7, 1914 French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross August 7, 1914 French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas August 7, 1914 German army occupies city of Liege Belgium August 7, 1914 Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK August 7, 1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres August 7, 1909 U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny August 7, 1907 Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland August 7, 1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96 August 7, 1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike August 7, 1893 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes August 7, 1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door August 7, 1885 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar August 7, 1884 Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) August 7, 1882 Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die August 7, 1867 Battle of Moorefield, WV August 7, 1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii August 7, 1819 Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia August 7, 1814 Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits August 7, 1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) August 7, 1789 Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service August 7, 1782 George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart August 7, 1760 Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians August 7, 1750 Slave uprising on Curacao August 7, 1710 Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance August 7, 1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft August 7, 1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici August 7, 1588 English assault on Spanish Armada August 7, 1575 Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died August 7, 1573 Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth August 7, 1498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean August 7, 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales August 7, 1479 Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI August 7, 1409 Council of Pisa closes August 7, 936 Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany August 7, 768 Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope August 7, 626 Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated |