What are the important events that happened on August 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 7 is the 219^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 25, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,242,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecaenneagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 194 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,612 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 7: This Day In History

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.

August 7 Historical Events

• 1714 –
  The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• 1791 –
  United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1947 –
  Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1959 –
  The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the “sheaves of wheat” design, and was minted until 2008.
• 1960 –
  Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
• 1964 –
  Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
• 1967 –
  Vietnam War: the People’s Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
• 1970 –
  California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
• 1978 –
  U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
• 1999 –
  The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighbouring Russian Republic of Dagestan.

Who were born on August 7?

• 1904 –
  Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
• 1926 –
  Géza Kádas, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1979)
• 1959 –
  Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1960 –
  David Duchovny, American actor
• 1960 –
  Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama)
• 1963 –
  Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
• 1964 –
  Michael Weishan, American TV host
• 1980 –
  Anomie Belle, American musician
• 1980 –
  Aurélie Claudel, French model
• 1980 –
  Tácio, Brazilian footballer

Who died on August 7?

• 1485 –
  Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
• 1817 –
  Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
• 1864 –
  Li Xiucheng, Chinese General in the Taiping Rebellion.(b. 1823)
• 1917 –
  Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
• 1972 –
  Aspasia Manos, wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
• 2003 –
  Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 –
  Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2006 –
  Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
• 2007 –
  Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
• 2009 –
  Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)