August 7 in history: • 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor. → go there • 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi (pictured), Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. → go there • 1946 – The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests of Turkey's fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis. → go there • 1970 – Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, resulting in the deaths of judge Harold Haley and three others. → go there • 2020 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India, and crashed, killing 21 of the 190 people on board. → go there Died 1661: Jin Shengtan Wiki link Born 1975: Charlize Theron Wiki link Born 1992: Wout Weghorst Wiki link Died 2021: Douglas Applegate Wiki link Pictured: U.S. Marines wading ashore on Tulagi.