This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/29/1590 Gilles Hayne, composer 
07/29/1605 Simon Dach, German poet 
07/29/1620 Nicolaas Heinsius, philological/diplomat 
07/29/1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve) 
07/29/1723 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer 
07/29/1739 Johannes Ritschel, composer 
07/29/1755 Franz Gotz, composer 
07/29/1758 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (Against Relief) 
07/29/1778 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer 
07/29/1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in Americ

07/29/1817 James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883

07/29/1820 Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871 
07/29/1828 Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885 
07/29/1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875 
07/29/1849 Max Nordau, [Sdfeld], German arts/writer/zionist leader 
07/29/1853 Esther de Boer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing) 
07/29/1853 Henry Morton Dunham, composer 
07/29/1854 Georg Kerschensteiner, German theorist (Theory of Bildung) 
07/29/1861 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt 
07/29/1861 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16) 
07/29/1865 Nicola Spinelli, composer 
07/29/1869 Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons) 
07/29/1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk 
07/29/1876 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian/US actress (Waterloo Bridge) 
07/29/1878 Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) 
07/29/1883 Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43) 
07/29/1883 Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor 
07/29/1884 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist 
07/29/1887 Rudi Stephan, composer 
07/29/1887 Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Tim

07/29/1891 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynecologist 
07/29/1892 Charles L Bass, actor (Business in White Slavery) 
07/29/1892 William Powell, actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey) 
07/29/1893 Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12 music engineer) 
07/29/1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944) 
07/29/1900 Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer 
07/29/1900 Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times) 
07/29/1900 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974) 
07/29/1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid) 
07/29/1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)

07/29/1905 Thelma Todd, actress (Dangerous Female, Devil's Brother) 
07/29/1907 Melvin Belli, Sonora Calif, lawyer, SF's 'King of Torts' 
07/29/1909 Georgy Mushel, composer 
07/29/1911 Jan Cikker, composer 
07/29/1913 Stephen McNally, NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo) 
07/29/1914 'Professor' Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash) 
07/29/1918 Vladimir Doedentzev, Russian writer 
07/29/1921 Richard Egan, SF Calif, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna) 
07/29/1924 Lloyd Bochner, Toronto, (Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2«) 
07/29/1924 Robert Horton, LA Calif, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena) 
07/29/1925 Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven) 
07/29/1926 Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs) 
07/29/1927 Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Bericht an de rattenking) 
07/29/1928 Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer 
07/29/1930 Paul Taylor, dancer & choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) 
07/29/1932 Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979-  ) 
07/29/1933 Robert Fuller, Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train) 
07/29/1935 Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dressden State Opera 1961) 
07/29/1936 Elizabeth Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87) 
07/29/1938 Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News) 
07/29/1939 Annea Lockwood, composer 
07/29/1941 David Warner, Manchester NH, actor (Holocaust) 
07/29/1943 Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964) 
07/29/1943 Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days) 
07/29/1946 Neal Doughty, keyboardist (REO Speedwagon) 
07/29/1950 Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80

07/29/1951 Deborah Pryce, (Rep-R-Ohio) 
07/29/1951 Leslie Easterbrook, LA Calif, actress (Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5

07/29/1953 Geddy Lee, lead singer (Rush-Tom Sawyer) 
07/29/1954 Flo Hyman, Inglewood Calif, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984) 
07/29/1955 'Country' Jem Finer, English banjo player (Pogues-Straight to Hell) 
07/29/1956 Patti Scialfa, singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen 
07/29/1959 Gary Springer, NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair) 
07/29/1959 Nelli Kim, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976) 
07/29/1963 Alexandra Paul, NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet) 
07/29/1964 Lisa Peluso, Phila, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving) 
07/29/1968 Kristen Babb-Sprague, Calif, US synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-9

07/29/1970 Maria Checca, Bogota Colombia, playmate (Aug, 1994) 
07/29/1971 Bryan Dattilo, Kanakee Ill, actor (Lucas-Days of our Life) 
07/29/1971 Jayne Fenner, Four Marks England, US sailing (Olympic-92) 
07/29/1972 Wil Wheaton, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me) 
07/29/1973 Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven) 
07/29/1973 Wanya Morris, [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/29/1030 Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad 
07/29/1095 Ladislaus I Arpad de Heilige, King of Hungary, dies 
07/29/1099 Urban II, [Odo van Lagery], French Pope (1088-99), dies 
07/29/1164 Olaf, King of Norway, dies 
07/29/1596 Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84 
07/29/1632 Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies 
07/29/1644 Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies 
07/29/1649 David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken), dies 
07/29/1786 Franz Asplmayr, composer, dies at 58 
07/29/1797 Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48 
07/29/1808 SelŒm III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies 
07/29/1825 Micah Hawkins, composer, dies at 48 
07/29/1838 Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66 
07/29/1844 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53 
07/29/1856 Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46 
07/29/1857 Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54 
07/29/1859 Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer, dies at 63 
07/29/1863 Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at about 3

07/29/1886 Adolf Muller, composer, dies at 84 
07/29/1886 Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies 
07/29/1890 Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France 
07/29/1897 Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74

07/29/1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci 
07/29/1906 Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56 
07/29/1911 Oscar Carr‚, circus director, dies at 64 
07/29/1913 Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies 
07/29/1922 Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, dies at 81 
07/29/1930 Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69 
07/29/1933 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer, dies at 73 
07/29/1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves), dies at 83 
07/29/1960 Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies 
07/29/1963 Dorian Le Gallienne, composer, dies at 48 
07/29/1966 Pal Jardanyi, composer, dies at 44 
07/29/1970 John Barbirolli, composer, dies at 70 
07/29/1970 Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69 
07/29/1974 Cass Elliot, singer of Mamas & Papas chokes to death at 30 in London

07/29/1975 James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54

07/29/1978 Wesley La Violette, composer, dies at 84 
07/29/1979 Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (Eros & Civilization), dies at 81 
07/29/1980 Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58 
07/29/1982 Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81 
07/29/1982 Harold Sakata, actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62 
07/29/1982 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86 
07/29/1983 David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73 
07/29/1983 J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer, dies 
07/29/1983 Luis Bu¤uel, movie director, dies at 83 of cirrhosis of liver 
07/29/1983 Raymond Massey, actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, Calif at 

07/29/1984 Fred Waring, orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84 
07/29/1984 Woodrow Parfey, actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack 
07/29/1985 James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69 
07/29/1988 Ellin Berlin [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86 
07/29/1990 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies 
07/29/1992 Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered 
07/29/1993 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/29/ 362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws 
07/29/ 626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople 
07/29/1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies 
07/29/1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim) 
07/29/1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III 
07/29/1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht 
07/29/1585 Friese academy opens 
07/29/1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders 
07/29/1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Cura‡ao 
07/29/1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam 
07/29/1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 
07/29/1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane 
07/29/1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH 
07/29/1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 
07/29/1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette 
07/29/1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins 
07/29/1844 NY Yacht Club forms 
07/29/1851 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #15 Eunomia 
07/29/1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed 
07/29/1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan 
07/29/1864 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia 
07/29/1864 Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid) 
07/29/1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court 
07/29/1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY 
07/29/1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn forms 
07/29/1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms 
07/29/1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France 
07/29/1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics 
07/29/1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory 
07/29/1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 
07/29/1913 Albania becomes soevereinity under prince Wilhelm von Wied 
07/29/1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF 
07/29/1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade 
07/29/1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 
07/29/1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary 
07/29/1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924 
07/29/1916 Postal check & Girodienst establishes 
07/29/1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF 
07/29/1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders 
07/29/1921 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium) 
07/29/1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin 
07/29/1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany 
07/29/1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship 
07/29/1927 1st iron lung intalled (Bellevue hospital, NY) 
07/29/1928 Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' is released 
07/29/1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France 
07/29/1930 115ø F (46ø C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record) 
07/29/1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda 
07/29/1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin 
07/29/1938 Olympic National Park established 
07/29/1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd 
07/29/1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam 
07/29/1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 
07/29/1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches 
07/29/1945 Cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed, US 3rd atom bomb on board? 
07/29/1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg V

07/29/1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London 
07/29/1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends 
07/29/1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 
07/29/1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok 
07/29/1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5 
07/29/1956 Cathy Cornelius wins US Women's Golf Open in a playoff 
07/29/1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) 
07/29/1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting 
07/29/1957 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Hurricane Jackson 
07/29/1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN 
07/29/1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres 
07/29/1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958 
07/29/1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running 
07/29/1960 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel 
07/29/1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games 
07/29/1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory 
07/29/1965 Beatles movie 'Help' premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends 
07/29/1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s 
07/29/1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) 
07/29/1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup 
07/29/1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 
07/29/1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage

07/29/1967 U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage 
07/29/1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 
07/29/1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption 
07/29/1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control 
07/29/1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars 
07/29/1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct 
07/29/1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy 
07/29/1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee 
07/29/1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base 
07/29/1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 
07/29/1975 Pres Jakubu Gowon of Nigeria makes coup 
07/29/1978 600,000 attend 'Summer Jam' rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY 
07/29/1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m 
07/29/1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings 
07/29/1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris 
07/29/1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer 
07/29/1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson 
07/29/1983 'Friday Night Videos' premieres on NBC TV 
07/29/1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 
07/29/1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA 
07/29/1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched 
07/29/1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed 
07/29/1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages

07/29/1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia 
07/29/1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion 
07/29/1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989

07/29/1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit 
07/29/1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes 
07/29/1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film 'Cry Freedom' 
07/29/1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0') in San Juan 
07/29/1989 Phillies retire Steve Carltons # 32 
07/29/1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases 
07/29/1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game 
07/29/1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference 
07/29/1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0) 
07/29/1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7« caret engagement ring 
07/29/1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession 
07/29/1993 Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana pocession 
07/29/1993 Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack 
07/29/1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba 
  
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