Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - July 29, 2026

1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied

1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting

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

1993 Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession

1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134

1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

1975 Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired

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

1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)

1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres

1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa

1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes

1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14

1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs

1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England

1957 International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN

1930 115шF (46шC), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)

1940 Urk soccer team forms

1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958

1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli

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

1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32

1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)

1994 Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)

1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak

1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup

1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms

1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s

1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England

1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)

1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited

1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)

1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France

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

1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins

1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada

1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident

1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn forms

1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends

1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY

1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling

1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages

1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH

1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)

1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants

1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF

1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary

1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders

1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election

1938 Olympic National Park forms

1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7« caret engagement ring

1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden

1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989

1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va

1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF

1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1

1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)

0362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws

1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan

1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8« year jail sentenced

1864 Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)

1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin

1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession

1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4

1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia

1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht

1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

1864 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia

1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running

1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer

1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn

1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco

1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion

1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa

1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears

1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run

1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin

1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette

1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars

1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba

1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians

1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game

1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched

1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings

1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR

1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee

1916 Postal check & Girodienst establishes

1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)

1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island

1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg

1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy

1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5

1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok

1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit

1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m

1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders

1844 NY Yacht Club forms

1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed

1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV

1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics

0626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople

1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson

1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible

1967 U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage

1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd

1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet

1927 Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung

1956 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius

1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games

1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference

1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire

1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel

1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct

1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane

1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis

1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home

1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY

1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests

1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine

1965 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory

1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army

1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton

1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours

1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France

1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"

1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000

1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY

1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases

1585 Friese academy opens

1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory

1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II

1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin

1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade

1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island

1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Cura‡ao

1997 US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill

1968 Wash DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve

1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed

1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris

1993 Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack

1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption

1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)

1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam

1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated

1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster

1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage

1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends

1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship

1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants

1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches

1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam

1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH

1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany

1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base

1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan

1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover

1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0

1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released

1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott

1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY

1976 USSR performs underground nuclear Test

1696 French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace

1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA

1955 USSR performs nuclear Test

1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies

1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III

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