The balsa-wood raft Kon-Tiki, which carried Thor Heyerdahl and five companions more than 4,000 miles, crashed into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It had left Peru on...
On November 14, 1947, the UN passes a resolution stating that free elections should be held, foreign troops should be withdrawn, and a UN commission for Korea should be created.