Autumn begins today
今日立秋
Li Qiu (start of autumn) is the 13th solar term. It usually begins around August 7 and ends around August 23.
Today is
Ivory Coast’s Independence Day
The Ivory Coast（象牙海岸）, commonly known as Côte d’Ivoire（科特迪瓦）in French is a country in West Africa.
Aug 7, 1941
Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter, the first Asian winner of Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) died at age 80.
Aug 7, 1938
Konstantin Stanislavski, the Russian theatre theorist, died at age 75.