Flashback: July 1987

Summer is in full swing, and a lot of us are kind of just hanging out with one another waiting for the next stage of our lives to start in the Fall. Meanwhile, here's a few significant things that happened in the world this month 20 years ago:

• President Ronald Reagan nominates Robert Bork, a Judge on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the United States Supreme Court
• The first transatlantic hot-air balloon flight is successfully made
• After living under it for close to 40 years, Taiwan ends its rule of martial law.
• Appetite for Destruction, the breakthrough album for Los Angeles-based rock band Guns N' Roses, is released
• Lt. Col. Oliver North of the United States Marines Corp., and staff member of the National Security Council, provides testimony to Congress of his central role in the Iran-Contra Affair.