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August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day (1933)
- 1744 – Prussia declared its intervention in the War of the Austrian Succession on behalf of Charles VII, beginning the Second Silesian War.
- 1909 – Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.
- 1944 – IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
- 1998 – Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.
- Hugh Foliot (d. 1234)
- Joseph Marie Jacquard (d. 1834)
- Sidney Crosby (b. 1987)
- Jane Withers (d. 2021)