Born on 7 August 1952

At A Glance

7 August 1952 at a glance

Day of the week

7 August 1952 was a Thursday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“Anytime” by Eddie Fisher was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1952

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1952 was This Is Cinerama.

Star sign

The star sign for 7 August is Leo.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 7 August 1952 fell in the Year of the Dragon.

Birthstone

The birthstone for August is Peridot.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 7 August 1952 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 7 August

• 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
• 1946 The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
• 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960 Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.

Famous people born on 7 August

• Charlize Theron, South African actress (born 1975)
• Kyler Murray, American football player (born 1997)
• Michael Shannon, American actor (born 1974)
• Jalen Hurts, American football player (born 1998)

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