August 7th
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- 1974
Philippe Petit walks a high wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center View Post →
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- 1606
Possible first performance of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
- 1940
The largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for a 1856 British Guiana)
- 1944
IBM presents the first program-controlled calculator, the Harvard Mark I
- 1948
Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal at the London Games
- 1955
Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public
- 1956
A dynamite transport explodes in Colombia, causing approximately 1,200 deaths
- 2005
A trapped Russian submarine is rescued
- 2012
200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
- 2018
Australia's population reaches 25 million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
- 2021
Allyson Felix becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history at the Tokyo Olympics
