08-06-2011, 07:01 PM
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August 7th
1560 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle), spy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Garrison Keillor, radio host.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft "Kon-Tiki", arrived at the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1957 ~ Death of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor.
1964 ~ U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers to deal with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1966 ~ Birthday of Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.
1974 ~ French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1978 ~ President Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1998 ~ Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya that killed 224 people and injured over 4,500.
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