461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1912: Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for president by the Progressive Party in Chicago. New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson accepted the Democratic nomination at his summer home in Sea Girt.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1951 – US Viking 7 rocket, launched 7 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, sets a new world altitude record of 136 miles (219 km).
1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
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.
1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France.
1963 – Jacqueline Kennedy gives birth to Patrick Kennedy, becoming the 1st US First Lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland
1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1985 – The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.
2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Venerable Candida the Byzantine.
Hieromartyr Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 213)
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Caesarea in Palestine (260)
Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
Venerable Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
Virginmartyr Potamia of Alexandria, the Wonderworker, by the sword (4th century)
Venerable Hyperechius of the "Paradise", Egypt (4th century)
Saint Vardan the Martyr, of Armenia (451)
Venerable Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, the healer (862)
The Venerable 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid, reposed in peace.
Saint Sozon of Nicomedia.
Saint Faustus, a soldier martyred in Milan in Italy under Commodus (c. 190)
Hieromartyr Sixtus II (Xystus), Pope of Rome, martyred with his deacons (258)
Saints Peter, Julian (Juliana) and Companions (c. 260)
Saint Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus and Licinius (c. 295)
Saint Donatian, second Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (4th century)
Saints Donatus, second Bishop of Arezzo in Italy, and Hilarinus, a martyr in Ostia (4th century)
Saint Victricius of Rouen, former army officer, became missionary
in the north of France, and Bishop of Rouen, Confessor (407)
Saint Donatus, Bishop of Besançon (c. 660)
Saint Donat (Dunwyd), patron saint of St Donat's or Llandunwyd in Glamorgan in Wales
Venerable Pimen the Much-ailing (Poemen), of the Kiev Caves (1110)
Venerable Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (ca. 1141)
Saint Mikallos of Akanthou in Cyprus, one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)
Saint Mercurius of the Near Caves in Kiev, Bishop of Smolensk (1239)
Venerable Nicanor the Wonderworker of Mt. Callistratus (1419 or 1549)
Venerable David of Euboea, Wonderworker (c. 1589)
Venerable Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos,
the "standard-bearer", and wonderworker (16th century)
Saint Theodora of Sihla (18th century) ( Church of Romania )
Venerable Anthony of Optina, Schema-Abbot, Elder of Optina Monastery (1865)
Venerable Joseph, monk of Kapsa Monastery on Crete
New Hieromartyr Alexander Khotovitsky, Protopresbyter, of New York and Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Peter Tokarev, Michael Plyshevsky, John Vorontsov,
Demetrius Milovidov, and Alexei Vorobyov, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Athanasius (Yegorov), Abbot, of Izmailovo (Moscow) (1937)
New Hieromartyr Elisha Schtolder, Deacon (1937)
New Hieromartyr Basil Amenitsky, Priest (1938)
Commemoration of the First Siege of Constantinople (Saving of Constantinople
from the Persians and Avars) (626)
Uncovering of the relics (1832) of St. Metrophanes of Voronezh (Macarius in schema),
Bishop of Voronezh, the first bishop there (1703)
Synaxis of the Saints of Valaam Monastery
Valaam Icon of the Mother of God.
Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
Repose of Schemamonk John the Silent (John the Blind), of Valaam Monastery (1894)
Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast, of Katounakia, Mt. Athos (1930)
Repose of Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville Monastery, New York (1988)
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Venerable Candida the Byzantine.
Hieromartyr Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 213)
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Caesarea in Palestine (260)
Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
Venerable Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
Virginmartyr Potamia of Alexandria, the Wonderworker, by the sword (4th century)
Venerable Hyperechius of the "Paradise", Egypt (4th century)
Saint Vardan the Martyr, of Armenia (451)
Venerable Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, the healer (862)
The Venerable 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid, reposed in peace.
Saint Sozon of Nicomedia.
Saint Faustus, a soldier martyred in Milan in Italy under Commodus (c. 190)
Hieromartyr Sixtus II (Xystus), Pope of Rome, martyred with his deacons (258)
Saints Peter, Julian (Juliana) and Companions (c. 260)
Saint Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus and Licinius (c. 295)
Saint Donatian, second Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (4th century)
Saints Donatus, second Bishop of Arezzo in Italy, and Hilarinus, a martyr in Ostia (4th century)
Saint Victricius of Rouen, former army officer, became missionary
in the north of France, and Bishop of Rouen, Confessor (407)
Saint Donatus, Bishop of Besançon (c. 660)
Saint Donat (Dunwyd), patron saint of St Donat's or Llandunwyd in Glamorgan in Wales
Venerable Pimen the Much-ailing (Poemen), of the Kiev Caves (1110)
Venerable Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (ca. 1141)
Saint Mikallos of Akanthou in Cyprus, one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)
Saint Mercurius of the Near Caves in Kiev, Bishop of Smolensk (1239)
Venerable Nicanor the Wonderworker of Mt. Callistratus (1419 or 1549)
Venerable David of Euboea, Wonderworker (c. 1589)
Venerable Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos,
the "standard-bearer", and wonderworker (16th century)
Saint Theodora of Sihla (18th century) ( Church of Romania )
Venerable Anthony of Optina, Schema-Abbot, Elder of Optina Monastery (1865)
Venerable Joseph, monk of Kapsa Monastery on Crete
New Hieromartyr Alexander Khotovitsky, Protopresbyter, of New York and Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Peter Tokarev, Michael Plyshevsky, John Vorontsov,
Demetrius Milovidov, and Alexei Vorobyov, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Athanasius (Yegorov), Abbot, of Izmailovo (Moscow) (1937)
New Hieromartyr Elisha Schtolder, Deacon (1937)
New Hieromartyr Basil Amenitsky, Priest (1938)
Commemoration of the First Siege of Constantinople (Saving of Constantinople
from the Persians and Avars) (626)
Uncovering of the relics (1832) of St. Metrophanes of Voronezh (Macarius in schema),
Bishop of Voronezh, the first bishop there (1703)
Synaxis of the Saints of Valaam Monastery
Valaam Icon of the Mother of God.
Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
Repose of Schemamonk John the Silent (John the Blind), of Valaam Monastery (1894)
Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast, of Katounakia, Mt. Athos (1930)
Repose of Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville Monastery, New York (1988)
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