What happend on 7th August

06.08
08.08
1947

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

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 (4375 mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

1945

President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with a atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

1944

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

1942

World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins

1927

Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

1879

opening of Poor Man's Palace in Manchester

1819

Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

1794

Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.

1789

The United States War Department is established.