Born on 7 August 1943

At A Glance

7 August 1943 at a glance

Day of the week

7 August 1943 was a Saturday.

Top Film of 1943

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1943 was For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Star sign

The star sign for 7 August is Leo.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 7 August 1943 fell in the Year of the Goat.

Birthstone

The birthstone for August is Peridot.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 7 August 1943 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 7 August

• 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• 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.

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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