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His father ran a successful brewing company. After school, Heyerdahl began studying zoology at the University of Oslo in 1933. At the end of 1936 he married Liv Coucheron Torp, with whom he lived temporarily on the Marquesa Islands in Polynesia. In the spring of 1938 the couple returned to Norway, where their son Thor was born in September. The second son Björn followed later. Heyerdahl next turned to studying the Bella Coola Indians in British Columbia, Canada. During the Second World War, the family initially stayed in Canada, then Heyerdahl worked as a lieutenant in the Norwegian resistance against the German occupation.
Heyerdahl's anthropological research related to the possibilities of migration and cultural exchange between early human populations, which he sought to investigate and prove through elaborate expeditions in replica historical ships. The anthropologist became world famous for his breathtaking three-month crossing from Peru to Eastern Polynesia, which he documented in the 1948 book "Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen", which quickly received numerous translations. Heyerdahl then sailed from the Moroccan west coast to the West Indies. From Iraq he sailed through the Persian Gulf to Asia and back to Africa, proving that the ancient Sumerians could have had contact with other early cultures in this way.
In the summer of 1949, after separating from his first wife, Heyerdahl married Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen, with whom he had three daughters. In 1952, Heyerdahl published the book "American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition," in which he documented ancient migration movements between the American mainland and Polynesia. The researcher discovered similar migration movements between the South American Andes and Easter Island in the second half of the 1950s. Heyerdahl attracted worldwide attention with the two expeditions he carried out in 1969 and 1970 on the contemporary-style ships "Ra" and "Ra II" to cross the Atlantic from Egypt and Morocco, respectively.
A third larger expedition took Heyerdahl in 1977 from Iraq over the Tigris through the Persian Gulf to Oman and Pakistan and then across the Indian Ocean to Djibouti. In 1982/83, Heyerdahl led two expeditions to the Maldives to research the trade movements of prehistoric populations there. Heyerdahl made further expeditions to Easter Island in 1986, 1987 and 1988. He led an archaeological project in Tucúme/Peru from 1988 to 1993. Most recently, from 1990 to 2002, he was committed to researching and preserving the pyramids of Güimar/Tenerife.
Thor Heyerdahl died on April 18, 2002 of a brain tumor in Colla Micheri, northern Italy.- Ed "Chief Wahoo" McDaniel will always be recognized as one of the most influential Native American wrestlers of all time. McDaniel was originally a football player. While playing football for the Oklahoma Sooners (in college), he kicked a 91-yard punt, the 6th longest punt in NCAA history. McDaniel was drafted by the Houston Oilers (who are now the Tennessee Titans) and played there in 1960. After lasting only one season with the Oilers, he went on to play with the Denver Broncos from 1961 to 1963, the New York Jets from 1964 to 1965, and the Miami Dolphins from 1966 to 1968. McDaniel started his career in pro wrestling while still in football. He would wrestle in the off-seasons, and play football during football season. After retiring from football in 1968, his wrestling career became full-time. Wahoo was a top draw wherever he went, wrestling for the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (the company that would evolve into World Wrestling Entertainment), Georgia Championship Wrestling, Southwest Sports (Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling), the Minnesota Boxing & Wrestling Club (Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association), Joe Blanchard's Southwest Championship Wrestling, Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling, and the Japanese group known as International Wrestling Enterprises (which is where he won his first and only World heavyweight championship). He spent the most amount of time, however, wrestling for Jim Crockett Promotions out of Charlotte, N.C. (a member of the worldwide sanctioning body known as the National Wrestling Alliance), where he held the company's 'NWA' U.S. title five times (which ties him for the record with Ric Flair). McDaniel also held the company's 'NWA' World tag team championship four times with three different partners (Rufus R. Jones, Paul Jones, and Mark Youngblood) and was a four time Mid-Atlantic heavyweight champion. In addition he was the last holder of the 'NWA' National title (which came over from Championship Wrestling from Georgia, Inc. after Crockett got the coveted time slot on Ted Turner's TBS). McDaniel also competed over the years for Eddie Graham's Championship Wrestling for Florida (an NWA member), where he held the 'NWA' Southern heavyweight title (the top title in the promotion)...he won the belt the last time beating "Superstar" Billy Graham in a tournament before dropping it a month later to then-rookie sensation Lex Luger. McDaniel's last stint in a national promotion was the faltering AWA, which was seen on ESPN by that point. McDaniel, also the company's booker (head writer) left the promotion after an injury storyline in which the Destruction Crew, who were at the time the AWA World tag team champions and the top team in the promotion, detached his retina. McDaniel, after a brief stint with Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling, kept competing in the Carolinas and made his last national TV wrestling appearance at the WCW Slamboree 1995 pay-per-view, where he was inducted into the WCW Hall Of Fame along with "Big" John Studd (John Minton, Sr.), Angelo Poffo, Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Runnells, Jr.), and "The Dean Of Wrestling" Gordon Solie. McDaniel's health started to deteriorate in the mid 1990s, and he eventually lost both kidneys. He was awaiting a kidney transplant when he died from complications from diabetes and renal failure. He was 63.
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George C. Peed was born on 27 September 1913 in Grandview, Indiana, USA. George C. is known for The Mighty Hercules (1963). George C. died on 18 April 2002 in Park Ridge, New Jersey, USA.- Navita Handa was born on 18 June 1965. She was an actress, known for Nudist Colony of the Dead (1991). She was married to David Wayne Vollmer. She died on 18 April 2002 in Albany, Oregon, USA.
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Declan Langan was born on 25 July 1953 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Erotic Images (1983) and The Big Visitor (1977). He died on 18 April 2002 in Westwood, California, USA.- Director
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Herlander Peyroteo was born in 1929. He was a director and producer, known for A Maior Distância (1979), Um Campista em Apuros (1968) and No Tempo Em Que Você Nasceu (1973). He died on 18 April 2002 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Bert Avery was born on 24 December 1917 in Bristol, England, UK. He died on 18 April 2002 in Bristol, England, UK.