Major Events
- 1588 The “Invincible” Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, and several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland
- 1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York, setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
- 1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police
- 1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes a secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura, agreeing to give Japan free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
- 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
Jul 29 in Film & TV
- 1928 Test footage is first created for Walt Disney‘s “Steamboat Willie,” featuring Mickey Mouse
Jul 29 in Music
- 1973 Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
Jul 29 in Sport
- 1751 First international world title prizefight: Jack Stack of England defeats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
Did You Know?
Zion Harvey becomes the first pediatric patient to receive a double hand transplant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Fun Fact About July 29
Ten Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida’s coast in a hurricane
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