Today in History
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2008 War Between Russia and Georgia Breaks Out
The conflict began over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two breakaway regions of Georgia. When the two p
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1998 Coordinated bomb attacks in American embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill over 200 people
Responsibility for the twin attacks in the capital cities was taken by an Al-Qaeda affiliate Egyptia
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1974 Daredevil Walks a High Wire Between Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who was 24 years old at the time, walked 8 times across a hi
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1960 Ivory Coast Independence
The West African country known as Côte d'Ivoire gained its independence from France after being a m
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1782 George Washington Institutes the Purple Heart
Then known as the Badge of Military Merit, the Purple Heart is a military decoration. In 1932, on t
Births On This Day,
August, 7
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1876 Mata Hari
Dutch spy
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1958 Bruce Dickinson
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor
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1975 Charlize Theron
South African model, actress
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1975 David Hicks
Australian alleged terrorist
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1987 Sidney Crosby
Canadian ice hockey player
Deaths On This Day,
August, 7
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1938 Constantin Stanislavski
Russian actor, director
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1941 Rabindranath Tagore
Indian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1957 Oliver Hardy
American comedian, actor
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2005 Peter Jennings
Canadian/American journalist
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2011 Mark Hatfield
American politician
