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Purple Heart Day August 7 | ||
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National Lighthouse Day August 7 | ||
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National Sea Serpent Day August 7 | ||
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National Raspberries N Cream Day August 7 | ||
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🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Batalla de Boyacá (CO) · Battle of Boyacá (CO)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 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. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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
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