On This Day: Nelson Mandela's ANC suspended a 29-year guerrilla campaign against white rule

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.

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