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The following events took place on August 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1959

  Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960

  Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
• 1962

  Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
• 1964

  Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• 1966

  Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
• 1970

  California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
• 1974

  Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1368 ft in the air.
• 1976

  Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
• 1978

  U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
• 1979

  Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
• 1981

  The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• 1985

  Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.
• 1985

  The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
• 1987

  Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
• 1989

  U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1998

  The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• 1999

  The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• 2008

  The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
• 2012

  Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
• 2013

  A bombing in a market in Karachi, Pakistan, kills eleven people.

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