Today In History
July 29

Events

• 1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio


• 1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette


• 1844 - New York Yacht Club forms


• 1858 - 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed


• 1858 - US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan


• 1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court


• 1902 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms


• 1914 - 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City & San Francisco


• 1927 - Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung


• 1938 - Olympic National Park forms


• 1942 - Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd


• 1953 - US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok


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


• 1958 - President Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958


• 1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Connecticut


• 1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee


• 1975 - Gerald Ford became 1st US president to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz


• 1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated


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


• 1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes


• 1991 - Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.5 caret engagement ring

Baseball

• 1908 - St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics


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


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


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


• 1928 - Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game


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


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


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


• 1961 - Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games


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


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


• 1968 - Washington DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleveland


• 1974 - St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base


• 1978 - On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM


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


• 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 - 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 & Sammy Sosa


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


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


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


• 1993 - Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession

Football

• 1986 - New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages

Golf

• 1899 - Southern California Golf Assn forms


• 1924 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship


• 1934 - 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville New York


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


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


• 1984 - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster


• 1990 - 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel


• 1997 - US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Illinois

Boxing

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

Entertainment

• 1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released


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


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


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


• 1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres


• 1961 - Bob Dylan injured in car accident


• 1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends


• 1966 - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York


• 1973 - $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York Hilton


• 1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York


• 1982 - Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson


• 1983 - "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV


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


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


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

Trains Planes and Automobiles

• 1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York


• 1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco


• 1952 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet


• 1958 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running

Weather

• 1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane


• 1930 - 115 deg F (46 deg C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)

Disasters

• 1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000


• 1947 - Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Virginia


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


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

Space

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


• 1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars


• 1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings


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


• 1988 - Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit

Weddings

• 1981 - Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer


• 1982 - Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson

World War II

• 1937 - Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin


• 1943 - 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg


• 1943 - Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam


• 1944 - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours


• 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

World War I

• 1914 - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade


• 1914 - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary

Cival War

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


• 1864 - Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)

Crime and Criminals

• 1973 - $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York Hilton


• 1986 - New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages


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


• 1993 - Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession


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

Food and Beverages

• 1835 - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins


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

Birthdays

• 1590 - Gilles Hayne, composer


• 1605 - Simon Dach, German poet


• 1620 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat


• 1646 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve)


• 1723 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer


• 1739 - Johannes Ritschel, composer


• 1755 - Franz Gotz, composer


• 1758 - Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist (opposed Enlightenment)


• 1778 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer


• 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)


• 1817 - James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883


• 1820 - Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871


• 1828 - Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885


• 1830 - Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875


• 1853 - Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing)


• 1853 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer


• 1854 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)


• 1861 - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt


• 1861 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)


• 1865 - Nicola Spinelli, composer


• 1867 - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer


• 1869 - Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)


• 1871 - [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk


• 1874 - August Stramm, writer


• 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress (Waterloo Bridge)


• 1878 - Don Marquis, Illinois, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel)


• 1883 - Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43)


• 1883 - Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor


• 1884 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist


• 1887 - Rudi Stephan, composer


• 1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)


• 1888 - Niles Welch, Hartford Connecticut, actor (Cornered)


• 1889 - Karl Otten, writer


• 1891 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist


• 1892 - Charles L Bass, actor (Business in White Slavery)


• 1892 - Ernst van Raalte, lawyer (Seen, heard... wrote)


• 1892 - Karel L Baars, Dutch actor (White Slaves Trade)


• 1892 - William Powell, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)


• 1893 - Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music)


• 1895 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author


• 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)


• 1900 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer [OS]


• 1900 - Don Redman, Piedmont West Virginia, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)


• 1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)


• 1905 - Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid)


• 1905 - Thelma Todd, [Alison Loyd], Lawrence Massachusetts, actress (Dangerous Female)


• 1907 - Melvin Mouron Belli, Sonora California, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts")


• 1909 - Georgy Mushel, composer


• 1910 - Henry Brian Boyne, journalist


• 1911 - Jan Cikker, composer


• 1913 - Stephen McNally, New York City, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)


• 1914 - Abram Games, graphic artist


• 1914 - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi


• 1914 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)


• 1918 - Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer


• 1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Chihuahua Mexico, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw)


• 1921 - Aled Eames, maritime historian


• 1921 - Richard Egan, SF California, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)


• 1924 - Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)


• 1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Toronto, (Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2.5)


• 1924 - Robert Horton, Los Angeles California, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)


• 1925 - Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)


• 1926 - Don Carter, bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year (1953-54, 57-58, 60-61)


• 1926 - Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)


• 1927 - Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)


• 1928 - Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer


• 1930 - Paul Taylor, dancer/choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) [or 6/5]


• 1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )


• 1933 - Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman (1960-62)


• 1933 - Robert Fuller, Troy New York, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)


• 1934 - Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner (son of O C, Test 0-140)


• 1935 - Leonard Lee, rocker (Shirley & Lee)


• 1935 - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961)


• 1936 - Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)


• 1938 - Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)


• 1939 - Annea Lockwood, composer


• 1941 - David Warner, Manchester New Hampshire, actor (Star Trek VI, Time Bandits)


• 1942 - Sharon Gans, actress (Slaughterhouse 5)


• 1943 - Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter)


• 1943 - Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964)


• 1943 - Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon New York, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)


• 1944 - Terry Jarvis, NZ cricket opener (387 partnership w/Turner v WI 1972)


• 1945 - Michelle Angelo, Kingsville Texas, actress (Funny Girl)


• 1946 - Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)


• 1946 - Neal Doughty, Evantson Illinois, rock keyboardist (Reo Speedwagon)


• 1947 - Janet LePera, LPGA golfer


• 1949 - Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan (1989-93)


• 1949 - Stephen Burleigh, Wheeling West Virginia, actor (Love & Betrayal, Afterburn)


• 1950 - Maricica Puica, Romania, 2K runner (world record)


• 1950 - Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)


• 1951 - Dean Pitchford, rocker


• 1951 - Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson)/(Rep-R-Ohio)


• 1951 - Leslie Easterbrook, Los Angeles California, actress (Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5)


• 1953 - Geddy Lee, Toronto Canada, lead vocalist/bassist (Rush-Tom Sawyer)


• 1953 - Ken Burns, epic documentary maker (Civil War, Baseball)


• 1954 - Flo Hyman, Inglewood California, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)


• 1955 - "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player (Pogues-Straight to Hell)


• 1956 - Brenda Hocott, LPGA golfer


• 1956 - Michael Biehn, Anniston AL, actor (Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss)


• 1956 - Patti Scialfa, singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen


• 1959 - Brian James Claar, Santa Monica California, PGA golfer (1991 AT&T-2nd)


• 1959 - Gary Springer, New York City, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)


• 1959 - John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder)


• 1959 - Nelli Kim, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976)


• 1962 - Corinne Dibnah, Brisbane Australia, LPGA golfer (1988 Brit Open)


• 1962 - Steve Pelluer, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)


• 1963 - Alexandra Paul, New York City, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)


• 1963 - Azeem Hafeez, cricketer (fingerless Pakistani lefty quick)


• 1963 - Damon Allen, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)


• 1963 - Michel Boerebach, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)


• 1963 - Patty Dodd, Bogota Columbia, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-2nd-1988)


• 1963 - Steve Frey, Meadowbrook Pennsylvania, pitcher (Phila Phillies)


• 1964 - Lisa Peluso, Phila, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving)


• 1965 - Doug Burden, Rutland Vermont, rower (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)


• 1965 - Henry James, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)


• 1965 - Karen Doell, Winkler Manitoba, softball 2nd baseman (Olympics-96)


• 1965 - Luis Alicea, Santurce Puerto Rico, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)


• 1966 - Jeff Herrod, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)


• 1966 - Martina McBride, country singer


• 1966 - Sally Gunnell, 400m hurdler, (Olympic-gold-92)


• 1968 - Kristen Babb-Sprague, California, US synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-92)


• 1968 - Mike Williams, Radford VA, pitcher (Phila Phillies)


• 1969 - Alison Dunlap, Denver Colorado, cyclist (Olympics-96)


• 1970 - John Rennie, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler 1993)


• 1970 - Maria Checca, Bogota Colombia, playmate (Aug, 1994)


• 1970 - Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)


• 1970 - Steve Wojciechowski, Blue Island IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)


• 1971 - Bryan Dattilo, Kankakee IL, actor (California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives)


• 1971 - Jayne Fenner, Four Marks England, US sailing (Olympic-92)


• 1971 - Johnny Ruffin, Butler AL, pitcher (Cin Reds)


• 1972 - Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR (Scotland Claymores)


• 1972 - Wil Wheaton, California, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)


• 1973 - Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)


• 1973 - Wanya Morris, [Squirt], Phila Pennsylvania, rapper (Boyz II Men)


• 1974 - Derek Wilkinson, Lasalle, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)


• 1975 - Seth Greisinger, Kansas City KS, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)


• 1975 - Sheya Shipanga, Miss Namibia Universe (1997)


• 1977 - Greg Burgess, US, 200m individual medley (Olympics-silver-92, 96)


• 1981 - Jennie Thompson, Wichita Falls Texas, gymnast (Jr Natl-champ-93, Oly-96)

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