July 23, 1982: Vic Morrow (father of Jennifer Jason Leigh) and two child actors are killed by a stunt helicopter crash on the set of the Twilight Zone movie.
**July 23, 1829: **William Austin Burt patents the “typographer” (typewriter).
July 23, 1929 – The Fascist government of Italy bans the use of foreign words. Idjits.
July, 24, 1911: Hiram Bingham of Yale University finds Manchu Picchu.
July 24, 1990: Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait–Iraq border.
**July 24, 1870: **First trans-U.S. rail service begins.
July 24 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
July 25, 1946: first underwater nuclear bomb test, Baker is conducted as part of Operation Crossroads.
July 25, 1603: James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
July 25 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
July 26, 1908: The FBI is founded.
**July 26, 1946: **President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces.
July 26, 1936 – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War, was unveiled near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France.
July 26 1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. (It’s the 27th now both here and in Europe.)
July 27, 1940: The first Bugs Bunny cartoon, A Wild Hare, is released.
July 27th 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
July 28, 2014: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, and World War I officially begins.
July 28, 1540: Henry the VIII marries Catherine Howard-- and on the same day Thomas Cromwell is beheaded.
**July 28, 1900: **The world’s first hamburger is created at Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, CT, by Louis Lassing.