Historical Events on July 29

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• 362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
• 626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
• 904 Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
• 1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
• 1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
• 1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
• 1221 Emperor Go-Horikawa aged only 10 years old ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
• 1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden

• 1579 Antwerp request union with Utrecht
• 1579 Spanish King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and Princess van Eboli
• 1585 University of Franeker/ University of Friesland opens in the Netherlands
• 1588 The Battle of Gravelines - Spanish Armada damaged and scattered by the English fleet
• 1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England

• 1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
• 1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
• 1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
• 1693 War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands

• 1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by a hurricane
• 1751 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
• 1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio
• 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
• 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
• 1793 John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay
• 1794 African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
• 1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
• 1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
• 1847 Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States
• 1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
• 1851 Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia
• 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US and Japan opening Japanese ports to trade
• 1864 Battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia, 3rd and last day
• 1864 Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)
• 1864 American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
• 1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

• 1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
• 1899 Southern California Golf Association forms


• 1899 The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 1900 In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci
• 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms

• 1906 4th Tour de France won by Rene Pottier of France
• 1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France

• 1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics
• 1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
• 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
• 1913 Independence of the Principality of Albania recognized by the Conference of London
• 1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco
• 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
• 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
• 1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
• 1914 In response to Austria's declaration of war on Serbia, Russian diplomats and general urge general mobilization, but the Tsar calls for partial mobilization

• 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
• 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
• 1920 Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, Oregon

• 1921 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)

• 1922 Greek troops defeat Turkish forces and are on their way to Constantinople, but the Allies forbid them taking the city

• 1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
• 1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
• 1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
• 1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants

• 1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
• 1928 23rd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1)
• 1930 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
• 1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
• 1932 Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans
• 1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville, NY
• 1934 28th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France
• 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
• 1937 Tongzhou Incident: East Hopei Army mutinies against Japanese troops and civilians
• 1938 Olympic National Park forms
• 1940 SV. Urk Dutch soccer team forms
• 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Boulevard
• 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
• 1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
• 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
• 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
• 1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
• 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia

• 1948 XIV Summer Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium in London
• 1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin
• 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
• 1951 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
• 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
• 1953 US bomber shot down by Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Sea of Japan, north of Vladivostok

• 1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
• 1955 USSR performs nuclear Test
• 1956 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius

• 1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by UN
• 1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres

• 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running in San Francisco
• 1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.

• 1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
• 1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory


• 1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
• 1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
• 1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
• 1965 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
• 1966 In Nigerian counter-coup, Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi murdered, Yakubu Gowon appointed his successor
• 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
• 1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
• 1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
• 1968 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
• 1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
• 1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
• 1968 Washington, D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
• 1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
• 1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
• 1972 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• 1973 Led Zeppelin have more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton
• 1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
• 1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
• 1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
• 1974 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• 1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
• 1975 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
• 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed leads to firing of President Jakubu Gowon
• 1976 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1976 In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in first of a series of attacks
• 1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
• 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
• 1978 On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM

• 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
• 1981 Former Iranian president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
• 1981 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa’s Consul in New Zealand
• 1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
• 1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
• 1984 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. George's CC: Juli Inkster wins by 1 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
• 1984 American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter take out the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the LA Olympics
• 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
• 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
• 1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire


• 1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
• 1987 Ben & Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
• 1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
• 1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
• 1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
• 1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
• 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
• 1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
• 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
• 1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
• 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
• 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
• 1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
• 1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)

• 1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
• 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
• 1990 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Norcross, Georgia: US retains title with 2-1 victory over Soviet Union; Gigi Fernández & Zina Garrison-Jackson clinch final with 6-4, 6-3 win against Larisa Neiland & Natasha Zvereva
• 1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
• 1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
• 1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 performances
• 1992 Yevgeni Sadovyi of the Unified Team swims world 400m record (3:45.00) to wrap up 200-400m freestyle double at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
• 1992 Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek of Poland (5,559 points) beats Hungarian Attila Mizsér by 113 points to win the Pentathlon gold at the Barcelona Olympics; Poland also wins teams gold
• 1993 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
• 1993 Walter Koenig (Chekov in Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
• 1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
• 1994 200,000 Muslims demand the death of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin in Bangladesh
• 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
• 1994 H .Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
• 1994 India army kills 27 Muslim militants
• 1994 Jesse Timmedequas rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (results in Megan's Law)
• 1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba

• 1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
• 1996 The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court

• 2001 British Open Seniors Golf, Royal County Down: Australian Ian Stanley wins in a playoff with Bob Charles of New Zealand
• 2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of dwarf planet Eris
• 2007 94th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain

• 2012 Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea

• 2013 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq
• 2013 300 prisoners are freed after a Taliban attack in Dera Ismal Khan, Pakistan
• 2013 €103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France

• 2014 France contributes 8 million Euros in aid to Gaza
• 2014 100 Gazans killed overnight by Israeli strikes

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