Today in History

Births On This Day, July 29th 🎂

1981 Fernando Alonso
Spanish race car driver

1938 Peter Jennings
Canadian/American journalist

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate

1883 Benito Mussolini
Italian politician, Dictator of Italy

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian, scientist

Deaths On This Day, July 29th 🪦

1983 Luis Buñuel
Spanish director, producer

1974 Erich Kästner
German author, poet

1970 John Barbirolli
English cellist, conductor

1890 Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter

1833 William Wilberforce
English politician, philanthropist
 

29th July

1565 Mary, Queen of Scots married her cousin Lord Darnley.

1567 James VI was crowned King of Scotland at the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling. At the time, he was only thirteen months old, having been born in June 1566. His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, had been forced to abdicate the throne, and the young James was subsequently crowned.

1848 The Young Irelander Rebellion occurred when members of the Young Ireland revolutionary society launched an abortive uprising against the United Kingdom amid the Great Famine. Two Irishmen were killed in the failed uprising, many of whose leaders were deported to Australia or fled into exile in the United States and France.

1968 Pope Paul VI confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission's recommendation for change.

1976 Fire destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's south-east coast.

1981 The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London's St Paul's Cathedral. The televised ceremony was watched by over 700 million viewers around the world.
 

1907
Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1928
test footage of Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' is released which features 'Mickey Mouse'
1958
Pres Dwight Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics Space Act which establishes NASA
1996
Los Angeles Dodgers manager, Tommy Lasorda retires with record 1599 wins, 1439 losses, 4 National League Pennants,2 World Series rings
2013
The U.S. Coast Guard new HQ's in Washington,DC is designated as the Douglas A. Muro building in honor of the only guardsman to win the Medal of Honor during WWII postmously for extraordinary heroism,he died in 1942
 
On This Day In History, July 30th

2002 Pretoria Accord signed
The Pretoria Accord was signed between the between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda as an attempt to end the Second Congo War

1980 The Israeli Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law and adds it to Israel's Basic Law
The law declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.

1980 Vanuatu gains independence
The Republic of Vanuatu gained independence from France and UK.

1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles
The tenth Summer Olympics was officially opened. This was the second time that the city of Los Angeles was hosting the multi-event international sports meet.
 
Births On This Day, July 30th 🎂

1974 Hilary Swank
American actress

1970 Christopher Nolan
English/American director, screenwriter, producer

1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian/American bodybuilder, actor, politician, 38th Governor of California

1863 Henry Ford
American businessman founded the Ford Motor Company

1818 Emily Brontë
English novelist

Deaths On This Day, July 30th 🪦

2007 Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director

1996 Claudette Colbert
American actress

1912 Emperor Meiji
of Japan

1898 Otto von Bismarck
German politician, 1st Chancellor of the
German Empire

1718 William Penn
English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania
 
30th July 1986
RCA dumped John Denver from its roster after the release of his single, "What Are We Making Weapons For".
The song upset the record company's new owner, General Electric, one of the largest defense contractors in the US.
GE sold RCA two months later.
 
July 30th

1938 The first edition of The Beano was published. It is the longest running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson in Dundee. By April 1950 the weekly circulation was almost 2,000,000. The Beano reached its 4,000th issue on 28th August 2019.
 
30th July

1948 The world's first radar station was opened, to assist shipping at the port of Liverpool.

1963 The Soviet Union announced that it had granted political asylum to British spy Kim Philby and had given him Soviet citizenship.

1966 Football glory for England. England won football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.

1974 Peace deal for Cyprus The prime ministers of Greece and Turkey and the British Foreign Secretary have signed a peace agreement to settle the Cyprus crisis.

2006 The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops was broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. 2213 episodes were screened, the first being broadcast on New Year's Day 1964.

2014 A large part of the 144-year-old Grade II listed pier at Eastbourne's seafront was 'reduced to a mangled wreck' after a huge blaze that is believed to have started in wall panelling.
 
1909
French chemist, Eugene Schuller founds L'Oreal with his new range of hair dyes
1930
the 1st broadcast of anthology series'Death Valley Days" on NBC radio debuts. The show was created by Ruth Woodman,a NYC advertising agency script writer. The show was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax. It later became a syndicated TV series from 1952-1975. All the stories were based on fact,revolved around legends &lore of Death Valley, Calif where borax was mined
1956
Pres Eisenhower signs into law offically making' In God We Trust' the national motto of the U.S.
1990
The 1st Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line in Spring Hill, Tenn,the last one was in 2007
General motors now owns& operates the company
 

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