• David Copperfield vanished an airplane surrounded by a ring of spectators.
• He then made the Statue of Liberty disappear before a live audience of New Yorkers and a home television audience estimated at over 50 million.
• During his eighth annual special, Copperfield walked through the Great Wall of China, as thousands of live spectators looked on.
• He levitated himself across the Grand Canyon.
• He became the first person to escape from Alcatraz.
• He escaped from an imploding building and survived a plunge over the precipice of Niagara Falls.
• Copperfield made a seventy-ton Orient Express train car vanish in mid-air above a circle of witnesses.
• He defied gravity, unlocking the mystery of human flight, in his milestone illusion, "Flying."
• In "Fires Of Passion," one of Copperfield's television specials, he hung ten stories with burning ropes wearing a straight jacket above a bed of flaming spikes - the escape that not even Houdini would attempt.
• Although perhaps best known for the "grand illusion," Copperfield is also a master of pure sleight-of-hand. In "Fires of Passion," he destroyed and restored the famous Honus Wagner baseball card, worth well over a million dollars, in front of its admittedly nervous owner, hockey great Wayne Gretsky.
• The average time it takes Copperfield to create a new illusion, from conception to performance is two and a half years. "Flying," took over seven years to develop.
• He has been knighted by the French government, receiving the Chevalier of Arts and Letters and has received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Fordham University.
• Copperfield owns the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, the world's largest repository of antiquarian books, magic, illusions, and other ephemera on magic and the allied arts.
• He has performed seven times for Presidents of the United States.
• In 1995, Copperfield was given a star and inducted into the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
• He has published two books: Tales of the Impossible, an anthology of original fiction set in the world of magic and illusion, on which he collaborated with Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates and others; and Beyond Imagination (anthology part 2).
• Copperfield has been honored with a wax likeness of him in Madame Toussaud's in London.
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