Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 7
This is a list of selected August 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Badge of Military Merit -
Le Griffon -
Peace Bridge -
U.S. Marines wading ashore on Tulagi Island -
Barry Bonds -
Kon-Tiki raft
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Portion of the Harvard Mark I -
Harvard Mark I input/output and control -
Entrance to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp -
The inauguration of the Bronze Horseman -
The Bronze Horseman
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1782 – The Badge of Military Merit, the precursor to the Purple Heart award, was established as a military decoration in the Continental Army. | Requires expert attention |
| 1938 – Prisoners from Dachau concentration camp were sent to begin construction of Mauthausen, which would later be part of one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-occupied Europe. | expansion |
| 1947 – An expedition led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on his raft, the Kon-Tiki, completed a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. | refimprove |
| 1965 – Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman of the Federation of Malaysia demanded that Singapore withdraw from the federation, choosing to "sever ties with a State Government that showed no measure of loyalty to its Central Government." | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1782 – The Bronze Horseman, an equestrian statue of Peter the Great that serves as one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg, Russia, was unveiled.
- 1794 – US President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
- 1909 – Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City, Alice Huyler Ramsey, with three friends, arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the U.S.
- 1927 – The official opening ceremony of the Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, at the east end of Lake Erie, was held two months after it opened to the public.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal Campaign with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 – IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
- 1946 – The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests of its fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis.
- 1970 – Jonathan Jackson kidnapped California Superior Court judge Harold Haley in an attempt to free Jackson's brother George from prison.
- 1978 – Two years after the discovery of toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of, US President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York.
- 1998 – Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,500 others.
- 2007 – Barry Bonds surpassed Hank Aaron's career home run total with his milestone 756th home run.
- 2008 – Georgia launched a large-scale military offensive against the separatist region of South Ossetia, opening the six-day Russo-Georgian War.
Notes
- Bertha Benz appears on August 5, so Alice Huyler Ramsey should not appear in the same year.
- Second Chechen War appears on August 26, so Invasion of Dagestan and Russia–Georgia War should not appear in the same year.
August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day (1933); Independence Day in Ivory Coast (1960)
- 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
- 1679 – Le Griffon, a brigantine built by René-Robert de La Salle, became the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes.
- 1933 – An estimated 3,000 Assyrians were slaughtered by Iraqi troops during the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts.
- 1985 – In Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England, a local magistrate and his family were murdered in what The Times described as "a classic whodunit".
- 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamist militia group Islamic International Brigade invaded the neighbouring Russian republic of Dagestan in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist movement.