IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). Date: August 7, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)

The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis. Date: August 7, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). Date: August 7, 1947 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1947 📅 On This Day (Today)

Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. Date: August 7, 1947 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on…

Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Date: August 7, 1959 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1959 📅 On This Day (Today)

Ivory Coast becomes independent from France. Date: August 7, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today)

Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide. Date: August 7, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today)

Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. Date: August 7, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day…

Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Date: August 7, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today)