Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 7
August 7, 2025 is the 219th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Day In History: August 7
The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.
Historical Events: August 7
- 1789 –The United States War Department is established.
- 1879 –The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
- 1909 –Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco.
- 1933 –The Simele massacre: The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
- 1942 –World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1947 –Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1955 –Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
- 1965 –The infamous first party between Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey’s estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell’s Angels.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: the People’s Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
- 1999 –The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighbouring Russian Republic of Dagestan.
Who were born on August 7?
- 317 –Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
- 1751 –Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
- 1862 –Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
- 1879 –Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
- 1884 –Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1942 –Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
- 1958 –Alberto Salazar, American distance runner
- 1961 –Brian Conley, English comedian
- 1974 –Michael Shannon, American actor
- 1983 –Tina O'Brien, British actress
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