Notable Historical Events on July 29th
July 29th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
1560 |
Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden |
1563 |
League of High Nobles routes King Philip II |
1567 |
James VI is crowned King of Scots at Stirling. |
1579 |
Antwerp request union with Utrecht |
1579 |
King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli |
1585 |
Friese academy opens |
1588 |
The Battle of Gravelines - Spanish Armada damaged & scattered by the English fleet |
1588 |
Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England |
1609 |
Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years |
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. |
1696 |
Louis XIV. King of France, & Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg |
1715 |
10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks 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 |
1773 |
1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH |
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 there. |
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. |
1844 |
NY Yacht Club forms |
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 - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. |
1851 |
Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. |
1858 |
Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US & Japan opening Japanese ports to trade |
1864 |
3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia |
1864 |
Battle of Macon, GA (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, DC. |
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 & Canada forms |
1905 |
US Secretary of State W.H Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to let Japan have free rein in Korea in return for Japan's non-interference with the US in the Philippines |
1907 |
1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France |
1907 |
Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England |
1908 |
St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila 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 |
Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied |
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 |
1914 |
1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF |
1914 |
Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade |
1914 |
British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover |
1914 |
Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary |
1914 |
The Austrians bombard Belgrade in Serbia |
1915 |
Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR |
1916 |
Postal check & Girodienst establishes |
1920 |
1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF |
1920 |
Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders |
1920 |
Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. |
1921 |
Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn |
1921 |
New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium) |
1921 |
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
1923 |
Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin |
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 |
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released |
1928 |
Cleve 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) |
1929 |
Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France |
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, DC, 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 |
1936 |
RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy) |
1937 |
Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin |
1937 |
Tongzhou Incident |
1938 |
Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears |
1938 |
Olympic National Park forms |
1940 |
Urk soccer team forms |
1942 |
Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd |
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 |
1945 |
After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine |
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 |
1949 |
Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends |
1949 |
BBC radio begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run |
1952 |
1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet |
1953 |
US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
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 |
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) |
1956 |
WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1957 |
International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN |
1957 |
Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres |
1958 |
US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 |
1958 |
Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running |
1959 |
First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. |
1961 |
Bob Dylan injured in car accident |
1961 |
Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games |
1961 |
Wallis & 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 |
Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup |
1967 |
Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 |
1967 |
Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage |
1967 |
U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million 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 |
Wash DC 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 Muruora Island |
1973 |
$180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY 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 Muruora Island |
1974 |
St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base |
1975 |
Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz |
1975 |
Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired |
1976 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
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 |
600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY |
1978 |
Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m |
1978 |
Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings |
1978 |
On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM |
1979 |
7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott |
1981 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated |
1981 |
Iran ex-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, New Zealand. |
1983 |
"Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV |
1983 |
Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
1984 |
12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster |
1984 |
23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA |
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 & 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 & 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 government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
1988 |
Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & 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 |
36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel |
1990 |
Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game |
1990 |
South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference |
1991 |
1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0) |
1991 |
Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco |
1992 |
"Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs |
1992 |
Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) |
1992 |
Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession |
1993 |
Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession |
1993 |
Walter Koenig (Checkov-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 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin |
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 Moslem militants |
1994 |
Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law) |
1994 |
Parliamentary election in Aruba |
1995 |
Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis |
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. |
1997 |
US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill |
2005 |
Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris. |
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 |
2017 |
China urges North Korea to stop acts that could worsen tensions |
2017 |
South Korea to deploy more THAAD units after North Korea ICBM launch |
2017 |
Trump replaces chief of staff Priebus with retired General Kelly |
2018 |
Deadly California wildfire spreads as police report 17 people missing |
2018 |
At least 10 dead, 40 hurt as 6.4 quake hits Indonesia island |
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