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Today in History: July 29
1588
The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England.

1602
The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with Spain and Savoy against King Henry IV of France.

1603
Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists.

1693
The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden.

1830
Liberals led by the Marquis de Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king's restrictions on citizens' rights.

1848
A rebellion against British rule is put down in Tipperary, Ireland.

1858
Japan signs a treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States.

1862
Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore's Mill, Missouri.

1875
Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against the Ottoman army.

1915
U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti.

1921
Adolf Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis).

1945
After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives.

1981
Prince Charles marries Lady Diana.

1990
The Boston Red Sox hit 12 doubles in a game, setting a major league record.

1996
A US federal court strikes down the child protection portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, calling it too broad.

2005
Astronomers announce the discovery of dwarf planet Eris, leading the International Astronomic Union to clarify the definition of a planet.

Today in History: Born on July 29
1805
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian ( Democracy in America).

1877
Charles William Beebe, American biologist, explorer and writer.

1878
Don Marquis, novelist and poet.

1883
Benito Mussolini, Dictator of Italy (1922-1945).

1887
Sigmund Romberg, composer.

1900
Owen Lattimore, writer.

1905
Dag Hammarskjold, Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961).

1905
Stanley Kunitz, poet.

1909
Chester Himes, author (Cotton Comes to Harlem, If He Hollers, Let Him Go).

1918
Edwin Greene O'Connor, author (The Last Hurrah).

1918
Mary Lee Settle, novelist.

1920
Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace.

1930
Paul Taylor, choreographer and dancer.

1936
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US secretary of transportation (1983-1987), secretary of labor (1989-1990), unsuccessful candidate for Republican presidential nomination (2000), US Senator (2003-2009).

1938
Peter Jennings, ABC evening news anchor.

JOTD
I feel sorry for the magician i saw the other day...
He hypnotized 7 guys and then dropped the microphone on his foot and screamed


“frick ME”