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{{*mp|August 7}} [[Barry Bonds]] hits his 756th career [[home run |
{{*mp|August 7}} [[Barry Bonds]] hits his 756th career [[home run]], passing [[Hank Aaron]] for the [[Major League Baseball|Major League]] '''[[List of top 500 Major League Baseball home run hitters|career home run record]]'''. |
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{{*mp|August 4}} [[NASA]] launches the '''[[Phoenix (spacecraft)|''Phoenix'' spacecraft]]''' on a [[Delta II]] rocket ''(pictured)'', beginning a mission to [[Mars]]. |
{{*mp|August 4}} [[NASA]] launches the '''[[Phoenix (spacecraft)|''Phoenix'' spacecraft]]''' on a [[Delta II]] rocket ''(pictured)'', beginning a mission to [[Mars]]. |
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{{*mp|August 4}} An '''[[2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak|outbreak]]''' of [[foot-and-mouth disease]] in the [[United Kingdom]] prompts the banning of exports of [[livestock]] and other animal products. |
{{*mp|August 4}} An '''[[2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak|outbreak]]''' of [[foot-and-mouth disease]] in the [[United Kingdom]] prompts the banning of exports of [[livestock]] and other animal products. |
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- Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run, passing Hank Aaron for the Major League career home run record.
- NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a Delta II rocket (pictured), beginning a mission to Mars.
- An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom prompts the banning of exports of livestock and other animal products.
- Patriarch Teoctist I of the Romanian Orthodox Church dies of surgical complications after an operation for prostate adenoma and is buried in Bucharest.
- Russian MIR bathyscaphes perform the first crewed descent to the seabed at the North Pole in a bid to strengthen the claim for an extension of Russia's continental shelf.
- A series of floods on the Indian subcontinent leaves millions homeless, with the Gangetic plain in India and its delta in Bangladesh being the worst affected areas.
- A highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, collapses, sending more than fifty vehicles into the Mississippi River.
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