| General Information for August 7th 2015 |
| There are 2 public holidays today. |
| Day 219 of 2015 |
| 146 days left in 2015 |
| Week 32 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1974 - Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. |
| 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. |
| 1420 - Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence. |
| 936 - Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. |