Public Holidays on August 7

• 🌍 Batalla de Boyacá (Colombia)
• 🌍 Battle of Boyacá (Colombia)

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On This Day in History — August 7

• 2008 — The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
• 1999 — The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• 1998 — Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• 1990 — First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
• 1989 — U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1987 — Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union

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Notable Births on August 7

• 1993 — Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 — Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
• 1993 — Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1992 — Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1992 — Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 — Simon Yates, English cyclist

Notable Deaths on August 7

• 2016 — Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)
• 2015 — Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 2015 — Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)
• 2014 — Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
• 2014 — Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

On This Day in History — August 8

• 2016 — Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
• 2015 — Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
• 2013 — A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
• 2010 — China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
• 2009 — A tour helicopter and a private Piper aircraft collide over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S; all three people on the helicopter and all six aboard the Piper are killed, 40 blocks...
• 2008 — A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and...

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Notable Births on August 8

• 2000 — Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
• 1998 — Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1998 — Ronan Parke, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1991 — Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 — Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player

Notable Deaths on August 8

• 2017 — Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1936)
• 2015 — Christopher Marshall, English physician and biologist (b. 1948)
• 2015 — Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Sam S. Walker, American general (b. 1925)
• 2014 — Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2014 — Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941)