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Events on August 7

• 1495 At the Diet of Worms, the Eternal Peace is proclaimed in the Holy Roman Empire. At the same time, the Imperial Court of Justice is founded.
• 1869 In Eisenach, the founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party opens on the initiative of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht; the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) later emerges from the party.
• 1908 During the construction of the Danube Embankment Railway, the limestone figure “Venus of Willendorf” is excavated in Willendorf (Lower Austria). The sculpture is dated to around 27,000 BC and assigned to the Upper Paleolithic.
• 1912 During a balloon ascent, the physicist Victor Franz Hess notices a change that he calls high-altitude radiation. This makes him the discoverer of cosmic rays.
• 1947 Thor Heyerdahl reaches the Tuamotu Archipelago in the South Pacific aboard the wooden raft Kon-Tiki.
• 1962 The Madonna of the Rosary by Tilman Riemenschneider is stolen from the pilgrimage church of Maria im Weingarten in Volkach in Lower Franconia. The so-called Madonna theft is the beginning of one of the most controversial art rescue operations in the postwar era in West Germany.
• 1964 The Tonkin Resolution of the US Congress, in response to the Tonkin Incident on 4 August, initiates official US involvement in the Vietnam War.
• 1971 The American lunar mission Apollo 15 ends with a safe landing in the Pacific, although one of the capsule's three parachutes fails to open.
• 1974 The French high-wire artist Philippe Petit crosses a steel cable eight times, illegally strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center at a height of 417 metres. Petit and his helpers are arrested.
• 1983 The first World Athletics Championships open in Helsinki.
• 1986 The American action drama Top Gun opens in German cinemas.
• 1988 Eberhard Diepgen speaks as the first Governing Mayor of Berlin at a public event in the GDR.

Born on August 7

• 1870 Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, German businessman
• 1881 François Darlan, French admiral and politician
• 1901 Konrad Heiden, German journalist and writer
• 1911 Nicholas Ray, American film director
• 1941 Franco Columbu, Italian-American bodybuilder, chiropractor, author and film actor
• 1941 Volkert Kraeft, German actor
• 1960 David Duchovny, American actor
• 1961 Gesine Lötzsch, German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1970 Marlies Askamp, German basketball player
• 1982 Abbie Cornish, Australian actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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