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From: Mary Minnich< >
Subject: [FOLKLORE-L] Today in History - July 29th
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 06:45:55 -0400


Today is Thursday, July 29th, the 210th day of 1999.
There are 155 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 29th, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at
St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

On this date:
In 1588, the English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of
Gravelines.

In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in
Auvers, France.

In 1914, transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone
conversation between New York and San Francisco.

In 1948, Britain's King George the Sixth opened the Olympic Games in London.

In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established.

In 1957, Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.

In 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act,
which created NASA.

In 1967, fire swept the USS "Forrestal" in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134
servicemen.

In 1968, Pope Paul the Sixth reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance
against artificial methods of birth control.

In 1975, President Ford became the first US president to visit the site of
the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the
victims.

Ten years ago: Poland's newly elected president, Wojciech Jaruzelski,
resigned his post as Communist Party general secretary, and was succeeded by
Mieczyelaw Rakowski.

Five years ago: Abortion opponent Paul Hill shot and killed Dr. John Bayard
Britton and Britton's bodyguard, James H. Barrett, outside the Ladies Center
clinic in Pensacola, Florida (Hill was later convicted and sentenced to
death). Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer won Senate approval.

One year ago: President Clinton reached an agreement with Kenneth Starr to
provide grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television in the Monica
Lewinsky case. Jerome Robbins, one of modern ballet's master choreographers
and one of Broadway's major innovators, died in New York at age 79.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Lloyd Bochner is 75.
Actor Robert Horton is 75.
Former Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker (Republican, Kansas) is 67.
Actor Robert Fuller is 65.
Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth H. Dole is 63.
ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings is 61.
Actor David Warner is 58.
Rock musician Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon) is 53.
Marilyn Tucker Quayle, wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is 50.
Rock musician Simon Kirke (Bad Company) is 50.
Documentary maker Ken Burns is 46.
Rock singer-musician Geddy Lee (Rush) is 46.
Rock singer Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 43.
Actress Alexandra Paul is 36.
Country singer Martina McBride is 33.
Rock musician Chris Gorman (Belly) is 32.
Actor Rodney Allen Rippy is 31.
Actor Wil Wheaton is 27.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men) is 26.
Actor Stephen Dorff is 26.

Thought for Today:

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but
the present, or nothing but the past."
-- John Maynard Keynes, English economist (1883-1946).

(Copyright 1999 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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