On August 7, 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, over 1,300 feet above the ground; the event would be chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary film “Man on Wire.
Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist, walks across a tightrope suspended between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. New York, Aug. 7, 1974. Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist, walks across a tightrope suspended between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. New York, Aug. 7, 1974. Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist, walks across a tightrope suspended between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. New York, Aug. 7, 1974.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal environmental disaster a federal health emergency; it would later top the initial list of Superfund cleanup sites. U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, center, is helped by unidentified men, as she is evacuated from the area of the U.S. Embassy following an explosion in downtown Nairobi, Friday, Aug. 7, 1998.
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