AUGUST 7
1947:Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and the five-man crew of the
Kon-Tiki arrive in the Tuamoto Archipelago, near Tahiti. The primitive balsa wood raft traveled 4,300 miles from Peru across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to demonstrate that the Polynesian Islands could have been colonized by prehistoric South Americans.
1782: Gen. George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the Badge for Military Merit in the shape of a purple heart. In 1932, the award will be reinstated by the U.S. War Department as the Purple Heart, a decoration honoring U.S. military members killed or wounded in action.
1987: Lynn Cox swims from Alaska to Siberia across the Bering Strait in just over two hours, making her the first person to successfully swim between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Kon-Tiki arrive in the Tuamoto Archipelago, near Tahiti. The primitive balsa wood raft traveled 4,300 miles from Peru across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to demonstrate that the Polynesian Islands could have been colonized by prehistoric South Americans.
1782: Gen. George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the Badge for Military Merit in the shape of a purple heart. In 1932, the award will be reinstated by the U.S. War Department as the Purple Heart, a decoration honoring U.S. military members killed or wounded in action.
1987: Lynn Cox swims from Alaska to Siberia across the Bering Strait in just over two hours, making her the first person to successfully swim between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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