Effemeride del 07 Agosto

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1942 : The Americans landed on Guadalcanal On August 7, 1942, U.S. troops landed at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands to take over the island to the Japanese. Because of the element of surprise, the landing was done without too much opposition, but with the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the battle lasted until the withdrawal of Japanese troops in February 1943.
1947 : A raft travels nearly 7000km On August 7, 1947, the Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl arrived in the archipelago of Tuamotu aboard his raft Kon-Tiki, after covering nearly 7000km. He had left Peru on April 28. Heyerdahl wanted to prove that the first inhabitants of the Pacific islands came from South America.
1956 : Trucks of ammunition exploded in Cali On August 7, 1956, seven military trucks full of ammunition exploded in the center of the city of Cali. The nearby army barracksrailway station and homes are destroyed and 1000 people are killed. The cause of the explosion has never been found.
1998 : Bombings in 2 U.S. ambassies On August 7, 1998, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and the one in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were victims of bombings. 212 people were killed and over 5000 injured. The attacks were perpetrated by fundamentalist terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

Independance Day in Ivory Coast
August 7 is Independence Day in Ivory Coast, which commemorates its independence gained in 1960 against France.

Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologue norvégien
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Yūryaku, Imperatore del Giappone (479)
Mata Hari, Spia olandese (1876)
Ralph Bunche, Diplomatico americano, Nobel per la Pace (1903)
Nicholas Ray, Regista americano (1911)
Abebe Bikila, Atleta etiope (1932)
Jean-Luc Dehaene, Politico belgo (1940)
Alain Corneau, Regista francese (1943)
John Glover, Attore americano (1944)
Robert Mueller, 6o Direttore dell FBI (1944)
Walid Jumblatt, Politico libanese (1949)
Vladimir Sorokin, Scrittore russo (1955)
Bruce Dickinson, Cantante inglese (Iron Maiden) (1958)
David Duchovny, Attore americano (1960)
Alain Robert, Scalatore urbano francese (1962)
Bruno Pelletier, Cantante canadese (1962)
Sydney Penny, Attrice americana (1971)
Charlize Theron, Attrice sud-africana (1975)
Tina O'Brien, Attrice inglese (1983)
Rouven Sattelmaier, Calciatore tedesco (1987)

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Industriale francese (1817)
Rabindranath Tagore, Scrittore indiano, Premio Nobel per la letteratura (1941)
Oliver Hardy, Comico americano (1957)
Joseph Kosma, Compositore francese (1969)
Red Adair, Pompiere americano contro pozzo di petrolio (2004)
Bruno Cremer, Attore francese (2010)

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