Today in History for July 1929
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Months in 1929: January February March April May June August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 19 of 19
1st - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1st - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
3rd - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
4th - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
5th - 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
5th - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
6th - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
7th - Romania & Vatican sign concord
10th - In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
10th - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
15th - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
17th - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
23rd - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
24th - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
24th - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
27th - Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
28th - Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
29th - Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
31st - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 61 of 61
1st - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
2nd - John A. Cade, American politician
3rd - Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
4th - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
4th - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
4th - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
4th - Al Davis, American businessman
5th - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer
5th - Katherine Helmond, Galveston Tx, actress (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss)
5th - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates
5th - Tony Lock, cricketer (highly successful England slow lefty bowler)
6th - Gerd Zacher, composer
7th - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
7th - R Baumgart, writer
7th - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
8th - Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House)
9th - Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
9th - Mawlai al-Hassan II, King of Morocco (1961- )
9th - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
10th - Moe Norman, Kitchener Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1966 Quebec Open)
10th - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
11th - David Kelly, Irish actor
11th - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
12th - Pavle Merku, composer
13th - Red Terrill Jr, horse trainer
14th - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
15th - Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
15th - Charles Anthony, American tenor
16th - Michael Morland, High court judge
17th - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
18th - "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
18th - Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52)
18th - Michael Medwin, English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint)
19th - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60)
20th - Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
20th - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
21st - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
22nd - Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)
22nd - John Barber, British racing driver
23rd - Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
24th - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
24th - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
24th - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
25th - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
25th - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
26th - Alexis Weissenberg, Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)
26th - Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
26th - Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
27th - Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
27th - Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
27th - Marc Wilkinson, composer
28th - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, NY, 1st lady (1961-63)
28th - Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert
29th - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
30th - Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
30th - Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
31st - Don Murray, Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
31st - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist
31st - Don Murray, American actor
31st - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
31st - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34
4th - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
5th - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
11th - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
12th - Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
15th - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
22nd - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
22nd - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
