Timeline Tuesday 6 October 1914

Events on Tuesday 6 October 1914 2

• 1914 – 2002 Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki Expedition Sailed a balsa wood raft across the Pacific to prove ancient transoceanic contact.
• 1914 – 2002 Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) Died 18 April 2002, aged 87 The Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl sailed the balsa raft Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 to argue that ancient South Americans could have settled the Pacific islands. His book and film about the voyage were worldwide successes. He led later reed-boat expeditions with the Ra and Tigris, though most scholars rejected his migration theories.