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Today in History ~ July 29
Feast of St. Olaf ln Norway
Events1565 - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
1579 - King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & Princess of Eboli
1588 - Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders (Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake) [H]
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida coast by hurricane
1835 - First sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
1848 - At the height of the Potato Famine in Ireland, the Irish Nationalist revolt against English rule was promptly crushed by a government police detachment in Tipperary;
1858 - 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1862 - Confederate spy Marie Isabella "Belle" Boyd is captured [H]
1864 - 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Macon GA (Stoneman's Raid)
1899 - 1st motorcycle race Manhattan Beach N.Y.
1900 - Italian king Umberto I was shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who resided in America before returning to his homeland to murder the king, Umberto was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III.
1907 - 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
1909 - The Buick Motor Company acquired the Cadillac Motor Company on behalf of General Motors for $4.5 million
1914 - The first transcontinental telephone linkup was completed between San Francisco and New York City.
1915 - US marines land in Haiti stay until 1924.
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1923 - Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1927 - Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1936 - RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing film on locomotives Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1937 - Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1944 - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. Most of its crew was ravaged by sharks [H]
1948 - Britain's King George VI opened the Olympic Games in London.
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1952 - 1st transpacific non-stop flight by jet
1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
1958 - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space act creating NASA
1958 - Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12 d/7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
1966 - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
1967 - USS Forrestal (in Gulf of Tonkin) explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
1968 - Pope Paul VI upheld the prohibition of all artificial means of birth control for Roman Catholics.
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1973 - Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 - Episcopal Church ordains female priests
1975 - President Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the victims.
1976 - The Son of Sam begins his rein of terror on New York [H]
1978 - Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn & its rings.
1980 - A state funeral was held in Cairo, Egypt, for the deposed Shah of Iran, who died two days earlier at age 60.
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
1986 - A New York jury ruled in favor of the U.S. Football League, agreeing that the National Football League illegally monopolized pro football. But the panel only awarded the USFL $1 in damages, effectively spelling the demise of the rival league.
1988 - FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 - Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March 1989
1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 - The South African government banned "Cry Freedom."
1991 - President George H.W. Bush arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that included the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
1991 - The Federal Reserve sought a $200 million penalty against BCCI for violating U.S. banking laws. It was the largest fine in the Federal Reserve's history.
1992 - Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and his law partner, Robert Altman, were indicted on charges of lying about their roles in the BCCI bank scandal.
1992 - Former East German leader Erich Honecker was arrested on his return to his homeland and charged with manslaughter; he was permitted to leave after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction and death sentence of retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."
1994 - India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 - Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
1996 - China conducted an underground atomic test, then declared a moratorium on such explosions.
1997 - Minamata Bay, Japan, once a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution, was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated food fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.
1998 - President Clinton agreed to give videotaped testimony at the White House, which would be viewed by a federal grand jury investigating his alleged affair with former intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999 - A federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., fined President Clinton $89,000 for lying about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky in his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
1999 - A securities trader who'd suffered heavy losses killed 9 people and wounded 11 others in Atlanta before taking his own life. Police later found the bodies of his wife and two children at his home.
2001 - Lance Armstrong won his third straight Tour de France, ending three weeks of grueling competition and once again dominating the world's toughest cycling event. He became the first American to win the Tour three times in a row.
Birthdays Today
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1861 - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt.
1867 - Enrique Granados Spain composer
1869 - Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Magnificent Ambersons [1919], Alice Adams [1922])
1871 - [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk/seer
1883 - Benito Mussolini [Il Duce] Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg (operetta composer: Blossom Time, The Student Prince, The Desert Song, Up in Central Park; songs: When Hearts are Young, Deep in My Heart Dear, Golden Days, Lover Come Back to Me, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, When I Grow Too Old to Dream; founding member of ASCAP)
1887 - Tim Mara, NFL team owner (NY Giants).
1892 - William Powell, actor (the Thin Man).
1894 - Clara Bow (actress: Hula, Dancing Mothers, Mantrap, Free to Love, Down to the Sea in Ships)
1898 - I.I. Rabi, Polish physicist.
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca) (Nobel 1974).
1905 - Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, actress
1907 - Melvin Belli ('King of Torts': attorney: represented Mae West Errol Flynn Muhammad Ali Jack Ruby Tammy Fae Bakker; author: Everybody's Guide to the Law)
1913 - Stephen (Horace) McNally (actor: Dear Detective, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Bullet is Waiting, The Black Castle)
1923 - Richard Egan (actor: Love Me Tender, The Hunters, A Summer Place, Blackbeard the Pirate)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner (actor: Naked Gun 2 1/2, Morning Glory, Dynasty, The Richard Boone Show, One Man's Family, Hong Kong)
1924 - Robert Horton (actor: Wagon Train, A Man Called Shenandoah, Kings Row, The Green Slime, Men of the Fighting Lady)
1925 - Mikos Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1925 - Ted Lindsay (Hockey Hall of Famer: Detroit Red Wings: 4 Stanley Cup titles, Chicago Black Hawks; held NHL records for most goals and assists by a left wing and most minutes spent in penalty box)
1926 - Don Carter (bowling champion: U.S. Open 4 time winner [1953, 54, 57, 58])
1926 - Russell Firestone (polo)
1930 - Paul Taylor (dancer, choreographer)
1933 - Randy Sparks (folk singer, songwriter: groups: New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green, Saturday Night, Today; The Back Porch Majority, Randy Sparks and the Patch Family)
1934 - Felix Mantilla (baseball)
1934 - Robert Fuller (actor: Laramie, Wagon Train, Emergency, Maverick, Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, Sinai Commandos)
1935 - Peter Schreier Meissen Germany tenor (Dresden State Opera1961)
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, US secretary of transportation
1938 - Don Wert (baseball)
1938 - Peter Jennings (journalist: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Peter Jennings' Journal [ABC radio])
1941 - David Warner (actor: Holocaust, Tron, Tom Jones, Time Bandits, Star Trek V & VI, Wild Palms, Ice Cream Man, In the Mouth of Madness, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Man with Two Brains)
1946 - Neal Doughty (musician: keyboards: group: REO Speedwagon: Can't Fight this Feeling, Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run)
1949 - Marilyn Quayle (Tucker) (wife of 44th Vice-President of the U.S. Dan Quayle)
1951 - Dan Driessen (baseball)
1953 - Ken Burns (Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director: The Civil War [1990-91], Baseball)
1953 - Lee Gross (football)
1963 - Alexandra Paul (actress: Baywatch, The Paperboy, Sunset Grill, American Nightmare, Christine)
1972 - Wil Wheaton (actor: Stand by Me, Toy Soldiers, Star Trek: the Next Generation, The Liar's Club)
Famous deaths
1030 - King Olaf II, Olaf Haraldsson, the patron saint and King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1794 - Seventy of Robespierre's followers guillotined
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53
1856 - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
1890 - Vincent Van Gogh, painter, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.
1900 - King Umberto I was shot to death by anarchist Gaetano Bresci,
1970 - John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70
1970 - Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1975 - James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader, Black Sunday), dies at 54
1983 - David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
1994 - John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill
2001 - Edward Gierek, the Polish communist ruler who pushed for reform during the 1970s but was forced from power in 1980 over mounting debt and strikes, died at 88.
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