Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 7

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Badge of Military Merit
Alice Huyler Ramsey with her Maxwell automobile
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Peace Bridge
Harvard Mark I input/output and control
Barry Bonds
Portion of the Harvard Mark I
Entrance to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
The inauguration of the Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman
Love Canal area in 2012
Le Griffon
Badge of Military Merit

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Ivory Coast (1960)	refimprove
1679 – Le Griffon (depicted), a barque built by René-Robert de La Salle, began its journey to be the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes.	Too much uncited
1782 – The Bronze Horseman, an equestrian statue of Peter the Great that serves as one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg, Russia, was unveiled.	multiple issues
1794 – U.S. president George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.	Too much uncited
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.	refimprove
1933 – Iraqi troops slaughtered 600–3,000 Assyrians during the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts.	cleanup section
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."	unreferenced section
1978 – Two years after the discovery of toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of, U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York.	refimprove section
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.	refimprove section
2007 – Barry Bonds surpassed Hank Aaron's career home run total with his milestone 756th home run.	refimprove section

Eligible

1744 – Prussia declared its intervention in the War of the Austrian Succession on behalf of Charles VII, beginning the Second Silesian War.
1782 – The Badge of Military Merit (pictured), the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.
1897 – Mahdist War: Anglo-Egyptian soldiers clashed with Mahdist Sudanese rebels in the Battle of Abu Hamed.
1909 – Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.
1914 – The Battle of Mulhouse began with France's first attack of World War I in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the region of Alsace from Germany.
1944 – IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
1955 – Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.
1987 – Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
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 4,000 others.
Born/died: | Hugh Foliot |d|1234| Joseph Marie Jacquard |d|1834| Huntley Wright |b|1868| Art Houtteman |b|1927| Abebe Bikila |b|1932| Richard Sykes |b|1942| Rebecca Kleefisch |b|1975| Sidney Crosby |b|1987| Billy T. James |d|1991| Brigid Brophy |d|1995| Peter Jennings |d|2005| Frances Oldham Kelsey |d|2015| Robert Martin Gumbura|d|2021| Jane Withers |d|2021|

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)

U.S. Marines wading ashore on Tulagi Island

1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi (pictured), Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
1946 – The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which 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 Harold Haley, a judge in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, including Jackson's brother George.
1985 – Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.

Jin Shengtan (d. 1661)
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (d. 1848)
Charlize Theron (b. 1975)
Wout Weghorst (b. 1992)

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