Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias became the first European to set foot on Madagascar.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
The 14th IAAF World Championships opened in Moscow, Russia.
In Tanzania, people attempted to siphon petrol from an overturned fuel tanker which exploded.
After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA's Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.
