29/07/2024
TODAY IN HISTORY!
July 29th:
--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 put down by police.
--1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
--1921 Adolf Hi**er becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
--English and Spanish fleets clash in the Battle of Gravelines in this historic painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
--1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, 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 put down by police.
--1973 Led Zeppelin have more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel.
--1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.
--1921 Adolf Hi**er becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Historical Events Today Events in 2024
Today in Film & TV
--1928 Test footage is first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie", featuring Mickey Mouse
--The Harris Treaty
On July 29, 1858, the United States and Japan signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (the Harris Treaty). Townsend Harris, the first U.S. diplomatic representative to Japan, negotiated the arrangement, which became effective July 4, 1859.
--A League of His Own
Don Carter, one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 29, 1926. A childhood job as a pinsetter gave Carter his start. Practicing on a lane that he constructed in his basement, Carter perfected his game and joined the St. Louis Budweiser team.
