August 7th, 1947

Born on August 7th, 1947

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What happened on August 7th, 1947?

August 7th, 1947

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihanmumbai_Municipal_Corporation

What else happened on August 7th?

August 7th, 1998

Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.

August 7th, 1987

Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.

August 7th, 1985

Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.

August 7th, 1970

Jonathan Jackson kidnapped Harold Haley, a judge in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, including Jackson's brother George.

August 7th, 1955

Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.

August 7th, 1946

The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests of its fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis.

August 7th, 1944

IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I.

August 7th, 1942

World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi (pictured), Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

August 7th, 1914

The Battle of Mulhouse began with France's first attack of World War I in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the region of Alsace from Germany.

August 7th, 1909

Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.

August 7th, 1897

Mahdist War: Anglo-Egyptian soldiers clashed with Mahdist Sudanese rebels in the Battle of Abu Hamed.

August 7th, 1794

U.S. president George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

August 7th, 1782

The Badge of Military Merit (pictured), the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.

August 7th, 1679

Le Griffon (depicted), a barque built by René-Robert de La Salle, began its journey to be the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 7th

Born on August 7th, 1947

76

Sofia Rotaru

Soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author of Moldovan origin

*August 7th, 1947, Marshyntsi

67

Jess Ingerslev

Danish actor and voice actor (1947-2014)

*August 7th, 1947, Aalborg †October 13th, 2014

76

Franciscus Henri

Musician and children's entertainer

*August 7th, 1947, The Hague

76

Juan Ahuntchaín

Uruguayan football player

*August 7th, 1947, Montevideo

76

Sabine Hering

German university teacher

*August 7th, 1947, Hamburg

76

Kerry Reid

Australian tennis player

*August 7th, 1947, Mosman

63

Luis Mariñas

Journalist and news anchor (1947-2010)

*August 7th, 1947, A Coruña †December 27th, 2010, Madrid

76

Peter Morton

American businessman

*August 7th, 1947, Chicago

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 7th?

57

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

58

Brigitte Maier

Porn actress, adult model (1952–2010)

*August 7th, 1952, Kiel †November 13th, 2010, Los Angeles

79

John Glover

American actor

*August 7th, 1944, Kingston

81

Sigfried Held

German association football player and manager

*August 7th, 1942, Bruntál

75

James P. Allison

American immunologist and Nobel laureate

*August 7th, 1948, Alice

24

Mariah Angeliq

American singer

*August 7th, 1999, Miami

72

Dorothy Walton

Badminton player

*August 7th, 1909, Swift Current †October 17th, 1981, Toronto

66

Harald Effenberg

German actor and voice actor

*August 7th, 1957, Pätz

77

John C. Mather

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

*August 7th, 1946, Roanoke

64

Manfred Lefkes

German association football player

*August 7th, 1959, Cologne

48

Charlize Theron

South African and American actress and producer

*August 7th, 1975, Benoni

79

David Rasche

American actor

*August 7th, 1944, Belleville

78

Elinor Ostrom

American political economist (1933-2012)

*August 7th, 1933, Los Angeles †June 12th, 2012, Bloomington

78

Franco Columbu

Italian bodybuilder and actor (1941–2019)

*August 7th, 1941, Ollolai †August 30th, 2019, San Teodoro

81

Caetano Veloso

Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist

*August 7th, 1942, Santo Amaro

57

Stefan Heße

German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop of Hamburg

*August 7th, 1966, Cologne

65

Bruce Dickinson

English heavy metal singer (born 1958)

*August 7th, 1958, Worksop

26

Jordan Torunarigha

German association football player

*August 7th, 1997, Chemnitz

37

Valter Birsa

Slovenian footballer

*August 7th, 1986, Šempeter pri Gorici

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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