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

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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 days after leaving Peru. The expedition, led by the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, was intended to prove that pre-Incan South American Indians could have colonised Polynesian is…
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South Africa commemorates on Sunday the 70th anniversary of the Women's March of 1956, when about 20,000 women of all races marched to the administrative capital, Pretoria, to protest against apartheid laws that forced black women to carry passes that restricted their freedom of movement. It was a decisive moment in the fight against the white minority government.

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