July 29
Today is the 210th day of 2021, there are 155 days left in the year.
1890 - Artist Vincent van Gogh died of self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France at age 37.
1914 - Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1914 - Massachusetts’ Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was officially opened to shipping traffic.
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1967 - An accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen. (Among the survivors was future Arizona senator John McCain, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander who narrowly escaped with his life.)
1968 - In Humanae Vitae (of Human life), Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial methods of birth control.
1975 - President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles married Lade Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible" and threw out his death sentence.
1999 - A day trader opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; he had earlier killed his wife and two children.
2008 - Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was indicted on seven felony counts of concealing more than a quarter of a million dollars in house renovations and gifts he had received from a powerful oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)
2008 - Army scientist Bruce Ivins commited suicide as prosecutors prepared to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2016 - Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars for killing his third wife.
2020 - Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the United States, died at the age of 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation.
Birthdays
23 - Jessica Lord (dancer)
28 - Cait Fairbanks (actress)
28 - Dak Prescott (football player)
30 - Paulina Goto (actress)
31 - Matt Prokop (actor)
38 - Kaitlyn Black (actress)
41 - Rachel Miner (actress)
47 - Josh Radnor (actor)
48 - Stephen Dorff (actor)
49 - Wil Wheaton (actor)
52 - Tim Omundson (actor)
53 - Rodney Allen Rippy (actor)
55 - Martina McBride (country singer)
56 - Dean Haglund (actor/comedian)
58 - Alexandra Paul (actress)
59 - Kevin Chapman (actor)
68 - Tim Gunn (TV personality)
68 - Ken Burns (documentary producer)
71 - Mike Starr (actor)
80 - David Warner (actor)
88 - Robert Fuller (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 29
1754 - The first international boxing match was held. The 25-minute match was won when Jack Slack of Britain knocked out Jean Petit from France.
1983 - Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers) set the National League consecutive game record at 1,207.
1986 - A federal jury in New York found that the National Football League had committed an antitrust violation against the rival United States Football League. But in a hollow victory for the USFL, the jury ordered the NFL to pay token damages of only three dollars.
1989 - The Philadelphia Phillies retire Steve Carlton's #32.
1995 - The Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars make their NFL debuts in an exhibition game against one another, with the Panthers winning 20-14.
1996 - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires with a record of 1,599-1,439, 4 National League pennants, and two World Series championships.
2001 - Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for the third straight year.
2003 - Boston Red Sox switch hitter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slam home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game. It was also just the 12th time in history a player had hit two grand slams in the same game.
2003 - Marcus Giles (Atlanta Braves) tied a major league record when he went 5-5 to give him hits in nine straight at-bats. The record was shared by 10 players at the time.
2018 - Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Jack Morris are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Today is the 210th day of 2021, there are 155 days left in the year.
1890 - Artist Vincent van Gogh died of self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France at age 37.
1914 - Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1914 - Massachusetts’ Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was officially opened to shipping traffic.
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1967 - An accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen. (Among the survivors was future Arizona senator John McCain, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander who narrowly escaped with his life.)
1968 - In Humanae Vitae (of Human life), Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial methods of birth control.
1975 - President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles married Lade Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible" and threw out his death sentence.
1999 - A day trader opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; he had earlier killed his wife and two children.
2008 - Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was indicted on seven felony counts of concealing more than a quarter of a million dollars in house renovations and gifts he had received from a powerful oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)
2008 - Army scientist Bruce Ivins commited suicide as prosecutors prepared to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2016 - Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars for killing his third wife.
2020 - Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the United States, died at the age of 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation.
Birthdays
23 - Jessica Lord (dancer)
28 - Cait Fairbanks (actress)
28 - Dak Prescott (football player)
30 - Paulina Goto (actress)
31 - Matt Prokop (actor)
38 - Kaitlyn Black (actress)
41 - Rachel Miner (actress)
47 - Josh Radnor (actor)
48 - Stephen Dorff (actor)
49 - Wil Wheaton (actor)
52 - Tim Omundson (actor)
53 - Rodney Allen Rippy (actor)
55 - Martina McBride (country singer)
56 - Dean Haglund (actor/comedian)
58 - Alexandra Paul (actress)
59 - Kevin Chapman (actor)
68 - Tim Gunn (TV personality)
68 - Ken Burns (documentary producer)
71 - Mike Starr (actor)
80 - David Warner (actor)
88 - Robert Fuller (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 29
1754 - The first international boxing match was held. The 25-minute match was won when Jack Slack of Britain knocked out Jean Petit from France.
1983 - Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers) set the National League consecutive game record at 1,207.
1986 - A federal jury in New York found that the National Football League had committed an antitrust violation against the rival United States Football League. But in a hollow victory for the USFL, the jury ordered the NFL to pay token damages of only three dollars.
1989 - The Philadelphia Phillies retire Steve Carlton's #32.
1995 - The Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars make their NFL debuts in an exhibition game against one another, with the Panthers winning 20-14.
1996 - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires with a record of 1,599-1,439, 4 National League pennants, and two World Series championships.
2001 - Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for the third straight year.
2003 - Boston Red Sox switch hitter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slam home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game. It was also just the 12th time in history a player had hit two grand slams in the same game.
2003 - Marcus Giles (Atlanta Braves) tied a major league record when he went 5-5 to give him hits in nine straight at-bats. The record was shared by 10 players at the time.
2018 - Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Jack Morris are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
