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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: August 7

1970: In Marin County, California, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his own courtroom by people calling for activist George Jackson to be released from police custody, and then killed when the hostage-takers try to escape.
1998: More than 200 people die in bombings at American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

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