August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day (1933); Independence Day in Ivory Coast (1960)
Love Canal area in 2012
- 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
- 1794 – US President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 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 (pictured in 2012) of Niagara Falls, New York.
- 2008 – Georgia launched a large-scale military offensive against the separatist region of South Ossetia, opening the six-day Russo-Georgian War.
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