Almanac for today, August 7: birthdays, anniversaries and anniversaries

August 7 it is the 219th day in the Gregorian calendar (220th in leap years). There are 146 days left until the end of the year. Here is a holy day, birthdays and anniversaries to remember.

What is celebrated on August 7: a holy day

On August 7, the priest of San Gaetano Tiene is venerated.

Birthdays, anniversaries, anniversaries

Scotty is born, Hardy is dead

Born

Mata Hari, pseudonym of Margaretha Gertruida Zelle, was a Dutch dancer and secret agent sentenced to death for espionage during World War I (August 7, 1876);

Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher (August 7, 1906);

Fernando Martellini, known as Nando, was an Italian journalist, radio and television reporter; during his long career he followed and commentated for Rai 10 World Cups, 18 Giri d’Italia, 12 Tour de France and 3 Olympic Games (7 August 1921);

Abebe Bikila – Ethiopian marathon runner, Olympic champion of the Games in Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964 (August 7, 1932);

Cayetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso – Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist (August 7, 1942);

Gerry Scotti, pseudonym of Virginio Scotti, Italian TV and radio host, disc jockey and former politician (August 7, 1956);

Paul Bruce Dickinson – British singer-songwriter best known for his militancy in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden of which he is the frontman (7 August 1958);

Maurizio Landini – Italian trade unionist, general secretary of the CGIL since January 24, 2019 (August 7, 1961);

Alain Robert, stage name of Robert Alain Philippe, French mountaineer (August 7, 1962);

Antonio Manzini – Italian actor, screenwriter, director and writer (August 7, 1964);

Gianluigi Paragone is an Italian journalist, TV presenter and politician, Senator for the Republic in the XVIII Italian Legislature, elected in the political elections of 2018 from the 5 Star Movement and then expelled in 2020, but subsequently founded Italexit and became a leader (August 7, 2020) . 1971);

Charlize Theron – American actress, film producer and model of South African descent (August 7, 1975);

Marco Melandri is an Italian motorcycle racer (born August 7, 1982).

Disappeared today

1957 – Oliver Norvell Hardy, American actor and comedian

1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, also sometimes referred to as Gurudev, English name Rabindranath Tahur, was a Bengali poet, playwright, writer and philosopher.

2008 – Andrea Pininfarina – Italian entrepreneur.

It happened today, August 7th.

1420 – Construction of Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence begins.

1566 – The celestial phenomenon of Basel takes place in Switzerland.

1679 – The brig Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Lord of La Salle, is towed to the mouth of the Niagara River to become the first ship to sail north of the Great Lakes.

1782 – George Washington orders soldiers wounded in action to be awarded the Badge of Military Merit. It would later be renamed the more poetic Purple Heart.

1789 – The United States Department of War is founded.

1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins. Ranchers in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley are rebelling against the federal liquor tax.

1814 – Pope Pius VII re-establishes the Society of Jesus with the bull “Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum”.

1819 – Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Boyac.

1884 – German South West Africa officially declared a German colony.

1927 – Opening of the Peace Bridge between Fort Erie (Ontario) and Buffalo (New York).

1931 – The first edition of the Giostra del Saracino of the modern era is held in Arezzo.

1944 – IBM introduces the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (better known as the Harvard Mark I).

1947 – Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki wooden balsa raft crashes into a coral reef at Raroya, Tuamotu after a 7,000 km (4,500 mi) 101-day journey across the Pacific, proving that prehistoric humans could have traveled from South America.

1953 – Ohio is admitted to the United States retroactively to 1803.

1959 – the program “Researcher”. The United States of America launches the Explorer 6 probe from a missile base at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

1960 – Ivory Coast gains independence from France.

1974 – Philippe Petit walks a steel cable strung between the tops of the Twin Towers in New York.

1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars.

1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a state of emergency on the Love Canal.

1981 – The Washington Star goes out of business after 128 years of publication.

1998–1998 US embassy bombings: The bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya killed 224 people and injured more than 4,500.

2005 – Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigns and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The act is a protest against a plan to clear the Gaza Strip of settlements proposed by Ariel Sharon and finally approved by the Israeli Council of Ministers.