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Some Interesting Facts and Happenings of This Day In History
US Embassy Bombings
simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
Philippe Petit
French stuntman walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (1974)
Kon-Tiki
the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
Purple Heart
military decoration was created by George Washington (1782)
Ulysses
a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)