29th
July, on this day
1014
Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle
of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat
on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000
prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
1030 Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle
of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain
his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565
Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley
1567 James
VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588
The Spanish Armada - a fleet of more than 125 ships sent from
Spain to invade England - is defeated by an English fleet commanded
by Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake
1693
War of the Grand Alliance: Battle
of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in
the Netherlands.
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England,
beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1793 John
Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto,
having sailed into the bay there
1830 Abdication of Charles
X of France.
1836 Inauguration of the Arc
de Triomphe in Paris.
1848 Irish
Potato Famine: Tipperary
Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against
British rule is put down by police.
1858 1st
commercial treaty between US and Japan signed
1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1864 Confederate spy Belle
Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol
Prison in Washington, DC.
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1890 Dutch artist Vincent
van Gogh dies two days after shooting himself at the site of one
of his most famous paintings
1899 The First
Hague Convention is signed.
1900 King of Italy,
Humbert I, is assassinated at Monza near Milan
1907 Sir
Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea
Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England.
The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding
of the Scouting movement.
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC and SF
1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
1920 1st US transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National
Socialist German Workers Party.
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat
Willie" is released
1930 The airship R100 begins its first passenger-carrying flight from
England to Canada
1932 In Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus
Army" of World War I veterans.
1936 RCA shows the 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives,
Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road &
comedy)
1937 Tungchow
Mutiny
1945 The BBC
Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light
entertainment and music
1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg
Va
1948 King
George VI opens 14th
modern Olympic games in London
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1956 Jacques
Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1957 International
Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1958 President Eisenhower signs
NASA and Space Act of 1958
1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of
the Union.
1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premiers, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1966 British group The Beatles make their last live appearance - in
San Francisco
1967 Explosion and fire aboard carrier USS
Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134, $100 million in damage
1967 Four days after its 400th anniversary a quake (6.5) strikes Caracas,
Venezuela causing severe damage and leaving 500 dead
1968 Pope Paul VI bans Roman Catholics from all artificial forms of
birth control
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Ct
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1975 Ford became 1st US president to visit Nazi concentration camp
Auschwitz
1976 In New York City, the "Son
of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in
the first of a series of attacks.
1978 Pioneer
11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1981 In Britain, Prince
Charles, Prince of Wales marries Lady
Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London - a ceremony watched
by a worldwide television audience of more than 700 million
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched s
1987
Ben & Jerry's & Jerry
Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France
François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel
under the English
Channel (Eurotunnel).
1988 FDIC bails out 1st
Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in
March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last US Playboy
Club (Lansing, Mich) closes
1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film "Cry
Freedom"
1991 Donald
Trump gives Marla
Maples a 7+ carat engagement ring
1993 Despite hearing evidence against the man known as 'Ivan the Terrible'
in the Nazi prison camps during World War II, the Israeli Supreme
Court clears John
Demjanjuk of war crimes
2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 29th July :
1805 Alexis de
Tocqueville France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1861 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1869 Booth Tarkington US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin the mad Russian monk
1878 Don Marquis Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel)
1883 Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43)
1887 Sigmund Romberg Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom
Time)
1892 William Powell actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)
1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi Poland, physicist (explored atom-Nobel-1944)
19-- David Sederholm Phila Pa, actor (Bill Hayes-Ryan's Hope)
19-- Evan Rogers Northampton Mass, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Jack Blessing Balt Md, actor (Chip Frye-Small & Frye)
19-- Jeanetta Arnette Wash DC, actress (Bernadette-Head of the Class)
19-- John Sykes rocker (Sleep Relaxation)
19-- Paul Sylvan NYC, actor (Woody-Busting Loose)
1900 Don Redman Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)
1900 Eyvind Johnson Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)
1905 Clara Bow silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid)
1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel
1961)
1905 Thelma Todd actress (Dangerous Female, Devil's Brother)
1907 Melvin Belli Sonora Calif, lawyer, SF's "King of Torts"
1913 Stephen McNally NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1914 "Professor Irwin Corey comedian (Car Wash)
1921 Richard Egan SF Calif, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)
1924 Lloyd Bochner Toronto, (Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun
2«)
1924 Robert Horton LA Calif, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
1925 Mikis Theodorakis Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1926 Russel Firestone polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1930 Paul Taylor dancer & choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company)
1932 Nancy Kassebaum (Sen-R-Ks)
1933 Robert Fuller Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)
1935 Peter Schreier Meissen Germany, tenor (Dressden State Opera 1961)
1936 Elizabeth Dole US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
1938 Peter Jennings Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1941 David Warner Manchester NH, actor (Holocaust)
1943 Roz Kelly Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
1946 Neal Doughty keyboardist (REO)
1950 Radu Voina Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972,
76, 80)
1951 Leslie Easterbrook LA Calif, actress (Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy
5)
1953 Geddy Lee lead singer (Rush-Tom Sawyer)
1959 Gary Springer NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)
1959 Nelli Kim USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976)
1963 Alexandra Paul NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)
1964 Lisa Peluso actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava Alden Rescott-Loving)
1972 Wil Wheaton actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By
Me)
1973 Stephen Dorff Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1973 Wanya Morris [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
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Deaths which occurred
on July 29th:
1030 King Olav Haraldsson of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1164 King Olaf of Norway, dies
1890 Vincent Van Gogh dies in Auvers, France
1900 Umberto I Italian king assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci
1960 Richard Simon cofounder of Simon & Shuster, dies
1974 Cass Elliot singer of Mamas & Papas chokes to death at 30
in London
1982 Harold Sakata actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62
1983 David Niven actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1983 Luis Bu¤uel movie director, dies at 83 of cirrhosis of
liver
1983 Raymond Massey actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, Calif
at 86
1984 Fred Waring orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
1984 Woodrow Parfey actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1985 James F Nolan actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
1988 Ellin Berlin (MacKay) Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86
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