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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7" title="August 7">August 7</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simele_massacre" title="Simele massacre">Assyrian Martyrs Day</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1461" title="1461">1461</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming Chinese</a> general Cao Qin staged <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_Cao_Qin" title="Rebellion of Cao Qin">a failed coup</a></b> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yingzong_of_Ming" title="Emperor Yingzong of Ming">Tianshun Emperor</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1782" title="1782">1782</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_of_Military_Merit" title="Badge of Military Merit">Badge of Military Merit</a></b>, the precursor to the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a>, was established as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_awards_and_decorations" title="Military awards and decorations">military decoration</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897" title="1897">1897</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdist_War" title="Mahdist War">Mahdist War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Egyptian_conquest_of_Sudan" title="Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan">Anglo-Egyptian</a> soldiers clashed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdist_State" title="Mahdist State">Mahdist Sudanese</a> rebels in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Abu_Hamed" title="Battle of Abu Hamed">Battle of Abu Hamed</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955" title="1955">1955</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Diane" title="Hurricane Diane">Hurricane Diane</a></b>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane" title="Atlantic hurricane">Atlantic hurricane</a> to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" title="Lesser Antilles">Lesser Antilles</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cox" title="Lynne Cox">Lynne Cox</a></b> became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Diomede_Island" title="Little Diomede Island">Little Diomede</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Diomede" title="Big Diomede">Big Diomede</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait" title="Bering Strait">Bering Strait</a> in 2 hours and 5 minutes.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Foliot" title="Hugh Foliot">Hugh Foliot</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1234); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila" title="Abebe Bikila">Abebe Bikila</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1932); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sykes_(microbiologist)" title="Richard Sykes (microbiologist)">Richard Sykes</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1942); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Martin_Gumbura" title="Robert Martin Gumbura">Robert Martin Gumbura</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2021)</p>
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