历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-07
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August 7th, 1998. Bombs explode minutes apart outside the US embassies in the Eastern African nations of Kenya and Tanzania. The blasts kill more than 200 people including a dozen Americans and injure thousands more. Osama bin1 Laden’s al-Qaida terror network is blamed for the bombings, 3 years before the 9.11 attacks.
1964. In Washington, a fateful moment during the Vietnam War as Congress passes the Tonkin
Gulf2 Resolution. The overwhelming vote gives President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to
escalate3 America’s involvement in the war.
1942. During WWII, US and
Allied4 forces land at Guadalcanal. This marks the start of the Allies’ first major offe against Japan in the Pacific. Months later, the remaining Japanese troops
evacuate5 the island.
1947. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his team successfully cross the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. Their journey is an attempt to prove Heyerdahl’s theory that ancient
mariners6 from South America could have settled in the South Pacific.
1957.Here's another nice mess you've gotten me intoOliver
Hardy7, half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team, dies in Northern Hollywood, California. He was 65.
2005. “We looked very hard to see if we could find the outline of the historical man.” In New York, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings dies after a battle with lung cancer. He was 67.
Today in History, August 7th. Jon Belmont, the Associated Press.
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