Mike Lynch Cartoons: 1977 NY Times: 25 Years of Mad Magazine UPDATED
From the July 31, 1977 New York Times: “THE ‘MAD’ GENERATION -
After 25 years of perpetuating humor in the jugular vein, the magazine that wised up millions of kids is still a crazy hit” by Tony Hiss (son of Alger) and Jeff Lewis.

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The Lunar Prospector mission was the third selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program.
At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including mapping of surface composition and possible polar ice deposits, measurements of magnetic and gravity […]

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Nicholas “Nicky” Patrick Hayden (born July 30, 1981 in Owensboro, Kentucky) also known as The Kentucky Kid, is an American professional motorcycle racer and 2006 MotoGP World Champion

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Graham Nicholls (born July 30, 1975) is a British installation artist specialising in immersive art.
He was one of the first artists to explore the possibility of using the Internet for live video streaming and more recently at the forefront of artistic experiments with virtual reality. He is also known for his use of psychology […]

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Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a member of the
Frankfurt
School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man.
Marcuse died on July 29, 1979, after having suffered a stroke during a visit to
Germany. He had spoken at the Frankfurt Römerberggespräche, and second-generation
Frankfurt
School […]

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ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Research […]

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Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
During World War II Hamburg suffered a series of devastating air raids which killed 42,000 German civilians. Through this, and the new zoning guidelines of the 1960s, the inner city lost much of its architectural past.
The bombings culminated […]

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Kennewick Man is the name for the remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River near
Kennewick, Washington, USA on July 28, 1996.
The discovery of Kennewick Man was accidental: a pair of spectators found his skull while attending the annual hydroplane races.[1]

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The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in
Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.
On the afternoon of 27 July 1997, the electricity went out. That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 according to The Economist, 100 […]

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In Atlanta, Georgia, Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey set the 100m world record of 9.84s +0.7 m/s wind during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Donovan Bailey is a Canadian former athlete. Bailey’s time of 9.84 in Atlanta was the 100m world record from 1996 until 1999, when it was broken by Greene. The time also stood as […]

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