George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic…

The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. The Battle of Gangut, fought on July 27, 1714 (August 7, New Style),…

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I) The Harvard Mark I, also known as…

The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication The Washington Star was a newspaper based in Washington, D.C., that operated from 1852…

The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan

The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College in Melbourne, Australia. Australian rules football, often simply called “footy” or…

Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor’]

The Ivory Coast gets its independence from France. IVORY COAST – August 7. A referendum in 1958 resulted in the Ivory Coast becoming an autonomous…