August 7: This Day in History

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322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
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626 – Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
768 – Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 – Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
1409 – Council of Pisa closes
1461 – Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1479 – Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
1485 – Henry Tudor’s (Henry VII to be) army lands in Milford Haven, South Wales
1606 – Possible first performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I.
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1620 – Johannes Kepler’s mother arrested for witchcraft
1782 – George Washington first creates Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army
1789 – Congress creates Department of War & Lighthouse Service
1802 – Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1814 – Pope Pius VII reinstates the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
1820 – 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
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1879 – The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
1908 – The first train to travel the length of New Zealand’s North Island ‘main trunk line’, leaves Wellington
1909 – US issues 1st Lincoln penny
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1933 – The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
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1946 – 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
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1971 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth
1976 – Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
2007 – “Eclipse” 3rd book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Saga” is published by Little Brown – initial print run 1 million copies
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2012 – Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
2012 – 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
2013 – 11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan

By : Archa Dave

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