7. August 2024
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1479
Archduke Maximilian secures the Burgundian inheritance through his victory over the army of Louis XI at Guinegate.
1819
Simon Bolivar succeeds in liberating Colombia from Spanish rule through his victory over the Spanish at Boyaca.
1869
The founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party (SDAP, from 1890 SPD), led by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, begins in Eisenach/Thuringia.
1884
Acquisition of German South West Africa: The German flag is raised in Angra Pequena in the (later) Lüderitz Bay.
1904
97 people are killed when a railway bridge collapses near Eden in the US state of Colorado.
1914
British and French troops advance into the German protectorate of Togo in West Africa.
1929
The German airship LZ 127 “Graf Zeppelin” officially sets off on a world tour from Lakehurst in New Jersey. The American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst secures a monopoly on reporting on the world tour, which ensures the financing. On September 4, the airship lands in Friedrichshafen.
1934
The late Reich President Paul von Hindenburg is buried in the Field Marshal’s Tower of the Tannenberg Memorial.
1959
Chinese troops invade northeast India.
1964
With the Tonkin Resolution, the US Congress gives the President the right to intervene militarily in Southeast Asia without restriction.
Name days
Cajetan, Afra, Albert
Birthdays
Carl Ritter, dt. Geograph (1779-1859)
Hanna Melzer, German Nazi resistance fighter (1904-1960)
Ralph Johnson Bunche, US politician, Nobel Peace Prize 1950 (1904-1871)
Kim Borg, Finnish opera singer (1919-2000)
Roswitha Hamadani, Austrian-Swiss writer (1944)
Death days
Joseph Kosma, French composer (1905-1969)
Paul “Red” Adair, US firefighter and founder of the company “Red Adair” (1915-2004)
Kary Mullis, US-Biochemist; NP 1993 (1944-2019)
Brion James, US actor (1945-1999)
Olga Irena Radzyner, Austrian economist (1957-1999)
Only “round” anniversaries are listed
