On this day: August 7
POSTED: 2:38 PM PDT August 6, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT August 6, 2012
The Purple Heart is born, a comic legend dies, a man on a wire goes for a stroll a quarter of a mile above the sidewalks of Manhattan, and U.S. embassies in Africa are targeted in a terrorist attack, all on this day.
