Page 2: Historical Events In August - 07
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
1782 On this day in history george Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
1783 On this day in history john Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
1786 Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49 on August - 07.
1789 On August - 07 uS War Department established
1789 On this day in history congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service
1798 On this day in history johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
1799 On August - 07 john Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58
1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti) on this day in history.
1814 Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits on August - 07.
1816 On this day in history dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77
1818 On August - 07 henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
1819 Battle of Boyac ; Bolvar defeats Spanish in Colombia on August - 07.
1819 Battle of Boyacá; BolÃvar defeats Spanish in Colombia on August - 07.
1820 First potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.
1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.
1823 Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer on this day in history.
1826 On this day in history carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
1829 On this day in history thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1833 Powell Clayton, Brig General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark) on August - 07.
1836 On August - 07 evander McIvor Law, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1920
1846 Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76 on August - 07.
1858 On August - 07 ottawa chosen as the capital of Canada by British Queen Victoria
1867 Battle of Moorefield, WV on this day in history.
1867 Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist on this day in history.
1867 Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 on August - 07.
1868 Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony) on August - 07.
1870 On August - 07 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
1872 Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31) on this day in history.
1876 On this day in history the birth of Mata Hari, Dutch born dancer and spy
1876 On this day in history mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
1879 The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester on August - 07.
1879 On this day in history j J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07)
1880 On August - 07 ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
1882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded. Many dead on this day in history.
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