On this day: Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress opens path to apartheid talks in 1990

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug. 7: 1942 – The first U.S. land offensive of World War Two in the Pacific started in the Southern Solomon Islands, on Guadalcanal. 1947 – The raft Kon Tiki ran aground on the Tuamotu Archipelago in the Pacific, 101…

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