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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 7
- 80th: 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John Glover in Kingston, New York, USA; actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special, Smallville).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of David Rasche; actor (All My Children, Nurses).
- 70th: 1954 - At the British Empire Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, a one-mile race is held between England's Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy. Near the end, Landy in the lead looks for Bannister over his left shoulder, as Bannister passes Landy past his right shoulder, winning the race with a time of 3:58.8.
- 60th: 1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
- 50th: 1974 - Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, 1,368 feet (417.0 metres) in the air.
- 40th: 1984 - Japan beats US for Olympic gold medal in baseball.
- 40th: 1984 - Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing New York Yankees.
- 25th: 1999 - Hundreds of Chechen guerrillas invade the Russian republic of Dagestan, triggering a short war.
- 15th: 2009 - Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan, killing 500 and stranding more than 1,000 via the worst flooding on the island in half a century.
- 10th: 2014 - Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
- 5th: 2019 - The Singapore Convention on Mediation, also known as the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, comes into effect with 46 countries ratifying it. States that have ratified the treaty will have to ensure that international commercial settlement agreements are enforced by their courts.
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