On this day July 29 1982, professional wrestler Jerry Lawler shocked audiences when he slapped comedian Andy Kaufman in the face during a live taping of Late Night with David Letterman. The unexpected confrontation left both the studio and home audiences stunned as Kaufman threw
On this day July 28 1984, ABC began its official broadcast coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Los Angeles bringing one of the most memorable Olympic events of the decade into homes across America. With more than 180 nations participating and the games hosted
On this day July 25 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya made history as the first woman to perform a spacewalk. While aboard the Salyut 7 space station, she spent over three hours outside the spacecraft conducting welding experiments in orbit. Savitskaya had already become the
On this day July 24 1983, one of the most infamous moments in Major League Baseball history occurred during a game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Royals third baseman George Brett hit a dramatic two run home
On this day July 23 1982, tragedy struck on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when actor Vic Morrow and two young child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed during a nighttime shoot in Santa Clarita, California. The three were
On this day July 21, 1983, the coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was measured at Vostok Station, a remote Russian research base in Antarctica. The temperature dropped to an astonishing minus 89.2 degrees Celsius, or minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Located near the center
On this day July 20, 1982, two deadly bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army shook central London. The attacks took place in Hyde Park and Regent Park and targeted British military personnel during ceremonial duties. The first bomb exploded in Hyde Park as
On this day July 18, 1984, tragedy struck the quiet community of San Ysidro, California when a heavily armed man opened fire inside a local McDonalds restaurant. The attack resulted in the deaths of 21 people and left 19 others injured, marking it as one
On this day July 17, 1988, professional wrestler Bruiser Brody died at the age of 42 after being stabbed in the locker room before a scheduled match in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The attack occurred during a World Wrestling Council event and sent shockwaves through
On this day July 17, 1981, a catastrophic structural failure occurred at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, when two suspended walkways collapsed during a crowded tea dance in the hotel’s atrium. The disaster killed 114 people and injured more than 200 others,