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July 31
Video Games
1994: The Interactive Digital Software Association announces a rating system for the violence, sex, and language content of video games.
1997: Sega releases the Sonic Jam video game for the Sega Saturn in the US.
1998: Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat 4 game for personal computers in the US.
1998: MCA/Universal Pictures releases the film BASEketball to theaters in the USA and Canada. A character says "You still hangin' out, playin' Nintendo?".
2000: Intel releases the 1.13 GHz Pentium III processor. It incorporates 44 million transistors in a 0.13-micron process. Code-name during development was Tualatin.
2006: The Electronic Entertainment Expo show is effectively dead, due to major exhibitors and publishers pulling support.
2009: Worldwide sales of the PlayStation 3 reaches 1 million units.
1997: Sega releases the Sonic Jam video game for the Sega Saturn in the US.
1998: Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat 4 game for personal computers in the US.
1998: MCA/Universal Pictures releases the film BASEketball to theaters in the USA and Canada. A character says "You still hangin' out, playin' Nintendo?".
2000: Intel releases the 1.13 GHz Pentium III processor. It incorporates 44 million transistors in a 0.13-micron process. Code-name during development was Tualatin.
2006: The Electronic Entertainment Expo show is effectively dead, due to major exhibitors and publishers pulling support.
2009: Worldwide sales of the PlayStation 3 reaches 1 million units.
Movies
1988: Trindad Silva of TV show Hill Street Blues, dies at age 38 in an auto accident.
1989: CBC Newsworld news and information TV channel debuts on cable systems across Canada.
2004: Death of Virginia Grey at age 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (over 100 films and 40 TV shows, Wagon Train, The Moneychangers).
1989: CBC Newsworld news and information TV channel debuts on cable systems across Canada.
2004: Death of Virginia Grey at age 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (over 100 films and 40 TV shows, Wagon Train, The Moneychangers).
Music
Sports
1988: Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London.
1988: Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1990: Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games.
2005: Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also inducted are San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman, winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, and sportswriter and broadcast analyst Peter Gammon, recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
1988: Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1990: Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games.
2005: Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also inducted are San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman, winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, and sportswriter and broadcast analyst Peter Gammon, recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
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