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August 7
Guided Sculpture and Gardens Tour, Bristol
Keep the Wheels Turning Fundraiser, Saunderstown, North Kingstown
August 8
Providence Roller Derby, Providence
August 8-9
345th Annual August Meeting/Green Corn Thanksgiving, Charlestown
August 9
Second Sundays, Middletown
Tea and History, Wickford, North Kingstown
Hike Through Hunts Mills, East Providence
East Providence Historical Society Open House, Rumford, East Providence
August 12
Hermit Crab Races, Misquamicut, Westerly
August 13
Newport Gallery Night, Newport
More events
August 7th in Rhode Island history*
1742
Nathanael Greene, Washington's most reliable general, is born in Warwick.
1865
Roger Williams National Bank (formerly the Roger Williams Bank of Providence) is organized and granted federal charter #1506.
1958
This morning, in heavy fog, the 250-foot tanker S.E. Graham, loaded with gasoline, collides with another tanker, the 730-foot S.S. Gulfoil, near Rose Island in Narragansett Bay. Both vessels catch fire, with the Graham being a total loss. Eighteen sailors from the Gulfoil are killed.
1973
The calling of a limited Constitutional Convention appears to have been defeated by voters. [A later recount will reverse the result].
1974
The Providence Journal-Bulletin reports that President Richard Nixon has decided to resign and that his decision is "irrevocable."
1986
A tornado rated F2 (winds of 113 to 157 miles per hour) touches down in Cranston and moves into South Providence, injuring twenty people.
