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Events on the 29th of July in history

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29 Jul 0238 The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
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29 Jul 0362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
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29 Jul 0615 Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
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29 Jul 0626 Avaren / Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
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29 Jul 0796 Offa, king of Mercia (b. 730)
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29 Jul 0904 Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
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29 Jul 1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
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29 Jul 1014 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
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29 Jul 1018 Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
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29 Jul 1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
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29 Jul 1030 Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
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29 Jul 1148 The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
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29 Jul 1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)Pope Innocent III
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29 Jul 1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
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29 Jul 1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
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29 Jul 1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
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29 Jul 1565 The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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29 Jul 1567 James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
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29 Jul 1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
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29 Jul 1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and Princess van Eboli
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29 Jul 1585 Friese academy opens
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29 Jul 1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
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29 Jul 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
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29 Jul 1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
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29 Jul 1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
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29 Jul 1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
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29 Jul 1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
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29 Jul 1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English / Dutch army
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29 Jul 1693 War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
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29 Jul 1696 French King Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
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29 Jul 1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
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29 Jul 1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
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29 Jul 1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England,
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29 Jul 1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
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29 Jul 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
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29 Jul 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pittsburgh Gazette
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29 Jul 1793 John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
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29 Jul 1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
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29 Jul 1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
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29 Jul 1844 New York Yacht Club forms
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29 Jul 1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
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29 Jul 1851 Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
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29 Jul 1858 United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
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29 Jul 1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed
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29 Jul 1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
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29 Jul 1864 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
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29 Jul 1864 American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
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29 Jul 1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
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29 Jul 1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
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29 Jul 1899 Southern California Golf Association forms
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29 Jul 1899 The First Hague Convention is signed.
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29 Jul 1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn formed
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29 Jul 1900 In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
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29 Jul 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms
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29 Jul 1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
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29 Jul 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
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29 Jul 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
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29 Jul 1908 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics
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29 Jul 1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
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29 Jul 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
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29 Jul 1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under Prince Wilhelm von Wied
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29 Jul 1913 The Norwegian football club Vålerenga Fotball was founded.
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29 Jul 1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC and San Francisco
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29 Jul 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
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29 Jul 1914 British fleet leaves Portland / passes Straits of Dover
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29 Jul 1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
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29 Jul 1914 The Cape Cod Canal opened.
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29 Jul 1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
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29 Jul 1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
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29 Jul 1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes
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29 Jul 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
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29 Jul 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
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29 Jul 1920 Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
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29 Jul 1921 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings / Walen Belgium)
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29 Jul 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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29 Jul 1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
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29 Jul 1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
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29 Jul 1924 Paul Runyan wins the PGA golf championship
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29 Jul 1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
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29 Jul 1927 Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung
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29 Jul 1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants
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29 Jul 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
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29 Jul 1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
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29 Jul 1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
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29 Jul 1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
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29 Jul 1930 115
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29 Jul 1932 Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
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29 Jul 1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park Country Club - Williamsville, New York
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29 Jul 1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
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29 Jul 1936 RCA shows the 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives,
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29 Jul 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
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29 Jul 1937 Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
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29 Jul 1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda
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29 Jul 1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace, " 1st appears
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29 Jul 1938 Olympic National Park forms
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29 Jul 1938 Olympic National Park established
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29 Jul 1940 Urk soccer team forms
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29 Jul 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
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29 Jul 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
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29 Jul 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
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29 Jul 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
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29 Jul 1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
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29 Jul 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
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29 Jul 1945 The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
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29 Jul 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
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29 Jul 1948 Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
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29 Jul 1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
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29 Jul 1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
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29 Jul 1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
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29 Jul 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
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29 Jul 1950 Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
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29 Jul 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
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29 Jul 1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
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29 Jul 1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
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29 Jul 1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
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29 Jul 1956 Cathy Cornelius wins the US Women's Golf Open in a playoff
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29 Jul 1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
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29 Jul 1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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29 Jul 1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
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29 Jul 1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
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29 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
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29 Jul 1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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29 Jul 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
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29 Jul 1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
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29 Jul 1960 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel
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29 Jul 1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
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29 Jul 1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
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29 Jul 1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
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29 Jul 1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
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29 Jul 1965 Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
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29 Jul 1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
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29 Jul 1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
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29 Jul 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York
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29 Jul 1966 Nigerians Chief of Staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
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29 Jul 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
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29 Jul 1967 USS Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
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29 Jul 1967 Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
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29 Jul 1967 During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
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29 Jul 1967 Explosion & Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134, $100 million in damage
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29 Jul 1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
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29 Jul 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
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29 Jul 1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
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29 Jul 1968 Washington DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland
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29 Jul 1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
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29 Jul 1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
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29 Jul 1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control
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29 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
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29 Jul 1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
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29 Jul 1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York Hilton
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29 Jul 1973 Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
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29 Jul 1973 During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tire failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
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29 Jul 1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
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29 Jul 1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
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29 Jul 1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
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29 Jul 1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
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29 Jul 1975 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
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29 Jul 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed / President Jakubu Gowon fired
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29 Jul 1976 In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
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29 Jul 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
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29 Jul 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
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29 Jul 1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
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29 Jul 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
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29 Jul 1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
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29 Jul 1980 Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
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29 Jul 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
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29 Jul 1981 Iran ex-President Bani Sadr flees to Paris
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29 Jul 1981 A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
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29 Jul 1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
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29 Jul 1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
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29 Jul 1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
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29 Jul 1983 "Friday Night Videos" premiers on NBC TV
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29 Jul 1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
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29 Jul 1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
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29 Jul 1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
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29 Jul 1984 Summer Olympics opens in LA
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29 Jul 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
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29 Jul 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
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29 Jul 1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire
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29 Jul 1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
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29 Jul 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
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29 Jul 1987 Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
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29 Jul 1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
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29 Jul 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
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29 Jul 1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing, Michigan) closes
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29 Jul 1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
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29 Jul 1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
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29 Jul 1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
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29 Jul 1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
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29 Jul 1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
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29 Jul 1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
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29 Jul 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
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29 Jul 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
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29 Jul 1989 Phillies retire Steve Carltons # 32
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29 Jul 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
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29 Jul 1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
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29 Jul 1990 28th Tennis Federation Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
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29 Jul 1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
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29 Jul 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
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29 Jul 1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
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29 Jul 1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
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29 Jul 1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
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29 Jul 1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7+ carat engagement ring
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29 Jul 1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 18 performances
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29 Jul 1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record / OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
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29 Jul 1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
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29 Jul 1993 Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
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29 Jul 1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
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29 Jul 1993 Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
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29 Jul 1993 The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
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29 Jul 1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
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29 Jul 1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
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29 Jul 1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
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29 Jul 1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
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29 Jul 1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
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29 Jul 1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
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29 Jul 1996 The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
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29 Jul 1997 US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club - Illinois
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29 Jul 2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
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