July/August 1989
July 5 - Seinfeld premieres on NBC;
July 14 - France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution;
July 26 - Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris is indicted for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted for such an offense;
July 31 - Nintendo releases the Gameboy portable video game system in North America;
August 7 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia;
August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their parents to death in the family's den;
August 24 - Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from Baseball following illegal allegations of gambling. The ban prevents Rose from being inducted into the Hall of Fame;
August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton;
July/August 1959
July 4 - With the admission of Alaska as a state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag is unveiled in Philadelphia;
July 8 - Charles Ovnand and Dale Buis become the first two Americans killed in action in Vietnam;
July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev hold their kitchen debate;
August 4 - Martial law is declare in Laos;
August 8 - A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000 people;
August 21 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th state;
July/August 1909
July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across a large open body of water (in this case, the English Channel) in a heavier-than-air craft.
August 2 - The world's first military airplane is purchased from the Wright brothers by the U.S. Army Signal Corps;
August 12 - The first race is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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