What happend on 7th August

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08.08
1978

United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.

1976

Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.

1970

California Judge Harold Haley is taken hostage and murdered in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

1967

Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

1966

Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.

1965

Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.

1964

Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

1960

Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.

1959

Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1955

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.