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On This Day, August 7
- 2020: Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
- 2008: The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
- 2007: At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
- 1999: The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
- 1998: Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.