Historical Events for 7th August 2018

1620 – Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1802 – Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
1948 – American Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she takes out the high jump at the London Games
1972 – Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn, Josh Gibson, Will Harridge, Buck Leonard and Ross Youngs are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 – “The Washington Star” ceases all operations after 128 years of publication
1983 – 1st Athletics World Championships open in Helsinki, Finland
1987 – Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
1988 – Rioting in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park.
2004 – Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux enters the history books with his 300th career win in the Chicago’s 8-4 triumph v San Francisco at SBC Park

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