WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. AUGUST
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Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. (7. August 1985)

The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England. (7. August 1985)

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 (7. August 1987)

U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. (7. August 1989)

The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. (7. August 1998)

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan. (7. August 1999)

Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run. (7. August 2007)

Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war. (7. August 2008)

Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria. (7. August 2012)