Time Will Tell: August 7th

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

August 7th

August 7 is the 220th day of the year. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year.

1694 At Bath, UK, a man named Samuel Bath awakes after sleeping for 17 weeks. He then stays awake until August 17, at which time he again dozes off until the end of January. I wonder if they have to dust him?

1782 General George Washington, whose secret hobby is embroidery, creates Badge of Military Merit later called Order of Purple Heart

1794 President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 and commissions the battleaxe, Carrie Nation, to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

1882 Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud. Think Capulets and Montagues without the tights and swords or brilliant speaking parts

1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

1974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between Twin Towers—a feat never to be duplicated

1978 President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.

1994 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan

2007 Possibly strengthened by a steroidal pharmacological regime, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run. Unless he’s smuggling a ferret in his bikini briefs, steroid abuse does not seem to have shriveled “Little Barry.”