Editing August 7 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Alice Huyler Ramsey]] and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, [[New York (state)|New York]] to [[San Francisco|San Francisco, California]].<ref name="smithsonian">{{cite journal |first=Marina Koestler |last=Ruben |title=Alice Ramsey's Historic Cross-Country Drive |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/womens-history/The-Centennial-of-Alice-Ramseys-Drive.html |quote=In 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey made history as the first woman to drive across the United States |journal= [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |publisher= [[Smithsonian Institution]] |date= June 5, 2009 |access-date=September 5, 2019 }}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; The [[Peace Bridge]] opens between [[Fort Erie, Ontario]] and [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peacebridge.com/news.php?action=viewStory&id=21|title=Peace Bridge Authority|date=7 March 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307215156/http://www.peacebridge.com/news.php?action=viewStory&id=21|archive-date=7 March 2008}}</ref>
*[[1930]] &ndash; The last confirmed [[lynching]] of black people in the Northern United States occurs in [[Marion, Indiana]]; two men, [[Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith]], are killed.<ref name="Bradley">{{cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/anatomy-murder/|author= David Bradley|title=Anatomy of a Murder: Review of Cynthia Carr's ''Our Town''|website=The Nation|date= May 24, 2006|access-date=Feb 4, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Iraq]] [[Simele massacre|slaughters]] over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as ''Martyrs Day'' or ''National Day of Mourning'' by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.<ref>{{cite web|last=Shapira|first=Aprim|title=Why is the 7th of August an Assyrian Martyrs' Day?|url=http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/AprimShapira8/WhyAugust7.html|publisher=Beth Suryoyo Assyrian|access-date=23 September 2011|archive-date=23 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923112153/http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/AprimShapira8/WhyAugust7.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Guadalcanal Campaign|Battle of Guadalcanal]] begins as the [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]] initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on [[Guadalcanal]] and [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo|Tulagi]] in the [[Solomon Islands]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McGee|first= William L.|title= The Solomons Campaigns, 1942–1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville – Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2. |publisher=Santa Barbara, CA: BMC Publications|date= 2002| isbn=0-9701678-7-3 |oclc=49317834|page=21}}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Proposed automatic calculating machine (Abstract)|journal=IEEE Spectrum|date=August 1964 |volume=1|issue=8|pages=62–69|doi=10.1109/MSPEC.1964.6500770|publisher=IEEE Xplore|s2cid=51652725 |issn=0018-9235}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; The government of the [[Soviet Union]] presented a note to its [[Turkey|Turkish counterparts]] which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the [[Turkish Straits]], thus beginning the [[Turkish Straits crisis]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Rozakes |first=Chrestos |title=Turkish Straits |year=1987 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |location=Dordrecht |page=43}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s [[Ochroma pyramidale|balsa wood]] raft, the ''[[Kon-Tiki]]'', smashes into the [[reef]] at [[Raroia]] in the [[Tuamotus|Tuamotu Islands]] after a 101-day, {{Convert|7000|km|mi}} journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.<ref name="arrlDec1947">{{cite journal |journal=QST |title=Kon-Tiki Communications – Well Done! |date=December 1947 |author=Anonymous |pages=69, 143–48 |publisher=The [[American Radio Relay League]]}}([http://p1k.arrl.org/cgi-bin/topdf.cgi?id=28028&pub=qst pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410014312/http://p1k.arrl.org/cgi-bin/topdf.cgi?id=28028&pub=qst |date=2022-04-10 }})</ref>
*  1947   &ndash; The [[Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai|Bombay Municipal Corporation]] formally takes over the [[Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport|Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] (BEST).<ref name="Motor Bus">{{cite web|url=http://bestundertaking.com/his_chap03.asp |title=Motor-Bus Appears |publisher=BEST Undertaking |access-date=12 October 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115024212/http://bestundertaking.com/his_chap03.asp |archive-date=15 January 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Explorer program]]: ''[[Explorer 6]]'' launches from the [[Eastern Range|Atlantic Missile Range]] in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usspaceobjectsregistry.state.gov/registry/dsp_DetailView.cfm?id=12 |title= Details of Explorer 6 (S-2) |access-date  = 2008-02-03 |publisher=U.S. Space Objects Registry |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924043243/http://usspaceobjectsregistry.state.gov/registry/dsp_DetailView.cfm?id=12 |archive-date = 2006-09-24}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Ivory Coast]] becomes independent from France.<ref name="CIA">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Cote Divoire|access-date=8 August 2008 |year=2008}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; Canadian-born American pharmacologist [[Frances Oldham Kelsey]] is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize [[thalidomide]].<ref name="jfk">{{citation |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8807 |last=Kennedy |first=John F. |author-link=John F. Kennedy |year=1962 |title=Remarks Upon Presenting the President's Awards for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service |access-date = May 1, 2006}}.</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]] giving U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] broad war powers to deal with [[North Vietnam]]ese attacks on American forces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s481|title=Senate Vote #481 in 1964 (88th Congress)|website=GovTrack|access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h197|title=House Vote #197 in 1964 (88th Congress)|website=GovTrack|access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Richard Nixon]] appoints Luis R. Bruce, a [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]]-[[Oglala Lakota|Oglala]] Sioux and co-founder of the [[National Congress of American Indians]], as the new commissioner of the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]].<ref name=":0" />
*[[1970]] &ndash; California judge [[Harold Haley]] is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free [[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]] from police custody.<ref name=time>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909547-1,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913023405/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909547-1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 13, 2008 |title=Justice: A Bad Week for the Good Guys |access-date=2008-06-04 |date = August 1970|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Philippe Petit]] performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] {{Convert|1368|ft|m}} in the air.<ref name="grace">{{cite news|first=Grace|last=Lichtenstein|title=Stuntman, Eluding Guards, Walks a Tightrope Between Trade Center Towers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/08/archives/stuntman-eluding-guards-walks-a-tightrope-between-trade-center.html?sq=%2522Philippe+Petit%2522&scp=7&st=p|quote=Combining the cunning of a second-story man with the nerve of an [[Evel Knievel]], a French high-wire artist sneaked past guards at the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade center]], ran a cable between the tops of its twin towers and tightrope-walked across it yesterday morning.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=8 August 1974|access-date=18 April 2008 }}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Viking program]]: ''[[Viking 2]]'' enters orbit around [[Mars]].<ref name="NASA-20061218">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=David R. Dr. |title=Viking Mission to Mars |url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html |date=December 18, 2006 |work=[[NASA]] |access-date=February 2, 2014 }}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] declares a federal emergency at [[Love Canal]] due to [[toxic waste]] that had been disposed of negligently.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blum|first=Elizabeth D.|title=Love Canal Revisited : Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2008|location=Kansas|isbn=978-0-7006-1560-5|page=28}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; ''[[The Washington Star]]'' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.<ref>{{cite web|first=Edwin|last= Yoder|url=http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1993/autumn/yoder-star-wars-adventures/|title= Star Wars: Adventures in Attempting to Save a Failing Newspaper|website=Virginia Quarterly Review}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Takao Doi]], [[Mamoru Mohri]] and [[Chiaki Mukai]] are chosen to be Japan's first [[astronaut]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/reports/iss_reports/2011/08072011.html|title=ISS On-Orbit Status 08/07/11|website=NASA|access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[Lynne Cox]] becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the [[Soviet Union]], crossing the [[Bering Strait]] from [[Little Diomede Island]] in Alaska to [[Big Diomede]] in the Soviet Union.<ref name="history.com">{{cite web|title=Lynne Cox swims into communist territory|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lynne-cox-swims-into-communist-territory|publisher=History|access-date=7 August 2017}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; U.S. Congressman [[Mickey Leland]] (D-[[Texas|TX]]) and 15 others die in a [[Aviation accidents and incidents|plane crash]] in [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hiltzik|first= Michael A.|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=diJUAAAAIBAJ&pg=5803,4680798&dq=mickey+leland+crash&hl=en|title= Leland crash leaves no survivors|website= [[Los Angeles Times]] at the [[Boca Raton News]]|date= August 14, 1989}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the [[Gulf War]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Timeline |url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2000/n08082000_20008088.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526135240/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45404 |archive-date=26 May 2008 |access-date=30 June 2010}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Ada Deer]], a [[Menominee]] activist, is sworn in as the head of the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]].<ref name=":0" />
*[[1995]] &ndash; The Chilean government declares [[state of emergency]] in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the [[White Earthquake]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.armada.cl/armada/en-el-radar/la-armada-de-chile-a-25-anos-del-terremoto-blanco/2020-08-14/100532.html|title=La Armada de Chile a 25 años del "Terremoto Blanco"|date=2020-08-14|access-date=2021-02-23|website=armada.cl|publisher=[[Chilean Navy]]|language=Spanish}}</ref>  
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program|Space Shuttle Program]]: The [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' launches on [[STS-85]] from the [[Kennedy Space Center]] in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-85.html|title=NASA - STS-85|last=Warnock|first=Lynda|website=www.nasa.gov|publisher=NASA |access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref>
*  1997   &ndash; [[Fine Air Flight 101]] crashes after takeoff from [[Miami International Airport]], killing five people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970807-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F N27UA Miami International Airport, FL (MIA)|last1=Ranter|first1=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[1998 United States embassy bombings|Bombings at United States embassies]] in [[Dar es Salaam|Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]] and [[Nairobi|Nairobi, Kenya]] kill approximately 212 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/terrorism/embassy_bombings.html |title=U.S. Embassy Bombings |publisher=U.S. Department of State website |access-date=August 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805035833/http://usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/terrorism/embassy_bombings.html |archive-date=August 5, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; The [[Chechnya]]-based [[Islamic International Brigade]] [[War of Dagestan|invades]] neighboring [[Dagestan]].<ref name="mdb.cast.ru">{{cite news|author=Alexander Pashin|url=http://mdb.cast.ru/mdb/3-2002/ac/raowdsmcc/|title=Russian Army Operations and Weaponry During Second Military Campaign in Chechnya|work=[[Moscow Defense Brief]]|publisher=Mdb.cast.ru|issue=#3|date=2002|access-date=2015-02-23|archive-date=2009-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129141108/http://mdb.cast.ru/mdb/3-2002/ac/raowdsmcc/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; At [[AT&T Park]], [[Barry Bonds]] hits his 756th career [[home run]] to surpass [[Hank Aaron]]'s 33-year-old record.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/sports/baseball/08bonds.html |title=Bonds Hits No. 756 to Break Aaron's Record |author=Jack Curry |work=The New York Times |date=August 8, 2007}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; The start of the [[Russo-Georgian War]] over the territory of [[South Ossetia]].<ref name="Karlsson">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhs.se/Documents/Externwebben/forskning/Forskningsprojekt/Statsvet/Forbe/US-RussianRelationsKarlsson160912Def.pdf |title=Competing Powers: U.S.-Russian Relations, 2006–2016 |author=Håkan Karlsson |publisher=Swedish Defence University |date=12 September 2016 |page=50 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122135733/http://www.fhs.se/Documents/Externwebben/forskning/Forskningsprojekt/Statsvet/Forbe/US-RussianRelationsKarlsson160912Def.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2017 }}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Air India Express Flight 1344]] overshoots the runway at [[Calicut International Airport]] in the [[Malappuram district]] of [[Kerala]], [[India]], and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-8HG (WL) VT-AXH Kozhikode-Calicut Airport (CCJ)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20200807-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-05|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200816003703/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20200807-0 |archive-date=2020-08-16 }}</ref>