| General Information for August 7th 2018 |
| There are 4 public holidays today. |
| Day 219 of 2018 |
| 146 days left in 2018 |
| Week 32 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1960 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France. |
| 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. |
| 1942 - World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins - United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. |
| 461 - Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. |