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On August 7, , Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,mile, day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could On August 7, , the U. Weeks earlier, the Japanese landed on Guadalcanal Island and began constructing an airfield there.
Not long after that, her Seven army ammunition trucks explode in Cali, Colombia, killing more than 1, people and injuring thousands more on August 7,
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