On This Day
7 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1905 The Indian National Congress boycotted British goods.
- 1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India's Green Revolution, was born in Kumbakonam, India.
- 1941 Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away at 80.
- 1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- 1985 Geet Sethi won the World Amateur Billiards Championship. He became the third Indian to achieve this feat.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I.
- 1934 In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the government can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
- 1957 Oliver Hardy—member of Laurel and Hardy, the first great Hollywood motion-picture comedy team—died in North Hollywood, California.
- 1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth. The mission to the moon had marked the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
- 1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield to discourage Iraq's Saddam Hussein from invading that country as he had Kuwait.
- 2007 Eclipse 3rd book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is published by Little Brown. Initial print run 1 million copies.
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