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========= July 29, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Ken Burns, American
director, producer and filmmaker, known for his style of using
archival footage and photographs in documentary films, is #born
Kenneth Lauren Burns in Brooklyn, New York. Ken Burns widely known
documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994),
Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best
Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), and The
Vietnam War (2017). He was also executive producer of both The
West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of
All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman). Burns'
documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (each for
1981's Brooklyn Bridge and 1985's Statue Of Liberty) and have won
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July 29: National Chicken Wing Day: -- An
annual day to indulge in a frenzy of dipping and sauce tasting.
With so many choices, be sure to pace yourself! The day celebrates
the little appetizer that could. Also known as buffalo wings, hot
wings or just wings, each of us eats about 290 per year. While a
chicken has two wings per bird, it produces four of these tasty
morsels. That's because when we dissect the wing, we break it down
into the wingette, drumette, and tip. The wingette and drumette
get seasoned and fried into the deliciousness we devour at
tailgate parties and trivia nights. While many people do call them
hot wings, one of the most popular sauces is ranch dressing.
Another go-to dip is bleu cheese. Although, plenty of spicy sauces
fill the menus. Since chicken wings are usually deep-fried,
celery, carrots or other crunchy veggies accompany the dish to
counterbalance the spice and fat. To observe National Chicken Wing
day: Head out to your restaurant of choice and order some chicken
wings. Or make them at home and explore different auces to make
your dipping outstanding! And post on social media using
#NationalChickenWingDay and encourage others to join in! After a
number of years of different establishments selling their version
of Buffalo Wings, the city of Buffalo, NY in 1977 proclaimed July
29th to be National Chicken Wing Day. Establishments like the
Anchor Bar, Wings n' Things, and Duff's all became famous for
their wings. During Jean Shepherd's early 1960s radio shows, he
regularly and eagerly recommended the chicken wings he frequently
ate, cooked by one of his show's sponsors, a Chinese restaurant in
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July 29: National Cheese Sacrifice
Purchase Day: -- The point of this holiday is to buy cheese
specifically to 'sacrifice' it by cutting a piece and putting it
on a mousetrap. That way, you can rid your house of mice every
year- at least, that seems to be the original idea behind it.
Nowadays, people see it as something very antiquated, since we
have many new methods of pest control. Studies show that mice
don't even like cheese! For those reasons, many have been trying
to reinvent the holiday and what it means to 'sacrifice' cheese.
Cheese has been present for millennia, well before written
history. The oldest direct evidence of cheesemaking was discovered
in a 7,000-year-old piece of pottery in Poland. While the first
documented evidence of cheese dates from the early second
millennium B.C., it comes from Sumerian cuneiform texts of the
Third Dynasty of Ur. The pressing and salting of curdled milk
could have been the start of cheesemaking. The first cheeses were
sour and salty, with a texture similar to rustic cottage cheese or
modern feta. At the start of the ancient Roman era, cheese became
a sophisticated delicacy, and many foreign kinds of cheese were
imported to Rome to satisfy the tastes of the social elite.
Pliny's "Natural History," from the year 77 A.D.,
devotes two whole chapters to the many types of cheese the Romans
enjoyed. And Columella's "De Re Rustica", circa 65 A.D.,
details a cheesemaking process involving rennet coagulation,
pressing of the curd, salting, and aging. Most cheeses were
initially recorded in the late Middle Ages, though they may
predate this era. Cheddar dates from the 1100s, Parmesan was
recorded in 1597, Gouda in 1697, and Camembert in 1791. In the
Americas, conquistadors said the Inca and other Andean cultures
consumed llama cheese. Since the European colonization, local
cheeses have been developed across both North and South America.
The first factory for the industrial production of cheese opened
in Switzerland in 1815. However, large-scale production found real
success in the United States. Jesse Williams, a dairy farmer from
Rome, New York began making cheese in an assembly-line fashion in
1851. Mass-produced rennet began in the 1860s, and the mass
production of cheese made it readily available to the poorer
classes. Factory-made cheese overtook traditional cheese-making
during the World War II era, and since then, factories have been
the source of most cheese in Europe and especially in America. On
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July 29: International Tiger Day: -- The
tiger enjoys the reputation of being the largest of the world's
big cats. A tiger can be easily identified with its distinctive
orange and black stripes on its face and body. International Tiger
Day is celebrated across the globe so that all of us can raise
awareness for tiger conservation. The day aims to build a
worldwide system that will be dedicated to protecting tigers and
their natural habitats. A safe and thriving habitat for tigers
means that we conserve other species and our forests, too. Through
International Tiger Day we can work for a future where humans and
tigers can cohabit peacefully. International Tiger Day was first
celebrated in 2010 after it was found that 97% of all wild tigers
had disappeared in the last century, with about only 3,000 of them
remaining. It's not news that tigers are on the brink of
extinction and International World Tiger Day aims to halt the
numbers from worsening. Habitat loss, climate change, hunting, and
poaching are only some of the factors that are responsible for the
decline in the tiger population. Along with the preservation of
these species, the day also aims to protect and expand their
habitats. Many international organizations such as the WWF, the
IFAW, and the Smithsonian Institute also observe International
Tiger Day. With the loss of habitat and climate change, tigers are
increasingly coming into conflict with humans. Poaching and the
illegal trade industry is also a very serious threat that wild
tigers face. Demand for tiger bone, skin, and other body parts is
leading to increased cases of poaching and trafficking. This is
resulting in localized extinctions, which has made the revival of
the tiger population next to impossible. Another threat that has
negatively impacted the tiger population is the loss of habitat.
All across the world, we are witnessing a loss of tiger habitats
due to access routes, human settlements, timber logging,
plantations, and agriculture. In fact, only about 7% of the
original tiger habitats are still intact today. Experts also worry
that the lack of genetic diversity among tigers can lead to
inbreeding in small populations. The ever-increasing habitat loss
means that the conflicts between tigers and humans are on the
rise. Tigers may wander into the human population which is
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July 29: Rain Day: -- There probably
would have been no life without rain! Various people and cultures
have celebrated rain and its life-giving power through prayers,
arts and music, folklore, and more. Rain doesn't just water our
trees and makes the earth fresh and green, the first spells of the
shower after a long stretch of summer brings us so much joy! If
you are lucky enough to get some rain on Rain Day, head outside to
dance, walk, or sing in the rain. Today is the perfect day to feel
grateful for the lovely planet that we live in and its many
miracles. Rain Day is celebrated in some way or other in most
cultures in the world, and this is a day that has been celebrated
for a long time now. Records show that the first Rain Day was
celebrated as early as in the 1800s. William Allison, a
pharmacist, is the one who should be thanked for creating the
much-loved Rain Day. Legend has it that Allison had a drugstore
located on High Street, in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and to him,
it seemed that every year on July 29 it would rain without fail.
The pharmacist grabbed the opportunity and declared July 29 to be
celebrated as Rain Day every year! Since then, Allison would also
keep a yearly record of the rainfall on this specific date, and
later his brother, Albert Allison started doing the same in the
1920s. The antics of these two brothers reached the offices of The
Byron Daily and they started recording this mystical event which
kept happening every year. The event probably would have remained
small and local if it was not for a newsman from the area. In the
1930s, John O'Hara decided that he would send stories about Rain
Day to other newspapers. As more and more people found out about
Rain Day, the celebrations became widespread too. And today,
newspapers and other media outlets often call up those in
Waynesburg to find out if it is raining on this date. Of course,
other people have started celebrating this date in their own ways.
A very common way of celebrating Rain Day is by simply learning
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July 29: National Challenged Champions
And Heroes Awareness Day: -- A day to honor and recognize the
differently-abled and their caregivers. It is a day to put into
practice the idea of treating others the way you want to be
treated. The idea of this day is to highlight these Champions'
abilities and not their disabilities. Focus on what is positive is
the best we can do for these people. Challenged Champions and
Heroes is an organization that focuses on physically and mentally
disabled people of the world and aims to recognize and honor them.
This organization also addresses their caregivers. They called
them the "Heroes" because they are the ones who spend
countless hours caring for and loving others despite what may be
going on in their own lives. Challenged Champions and Heroes was
founded in 2015. The president and founder of the organization are
Robin A. Lococo. The organization highlights the idea that every
life is valuable and created for a purpose. Every person has a
destiny and purpose to fulfill. They also believe in bringing
honor and recognition to these extraordinary people since it will
also awaken the gifts and greatness within them. They want to
change the idea that many people do not recognize their value in
life. A goal of Challenged Champions and Heroes is the initiative
to redefine the word 'disabled' by calling it Challenged
Champions. They state that the focus should be on these Champions'
abilities and not their disabilities. The Caregivers of our
Challenged Champions are also heroes. These Heroes have dedicated
their lives to caring for and loving humanity challenged by the
hard life circumstances they face day by day. One of the
organization's future goals is to honor other organizations that
seek to help Challenged Champions and bring education and
awareness programs covering human rights and disability freedoms.
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July 29: National Lipstick Day: -- A day
that encourages you to wear your best color! National Lipstick
Day! Lipstick has likely been around for thousands of years, made
out of an insane array of items, from gemstones to crushed bugs.
It has also come to symbolize so many things for women
particularly through the eras, and still is an important part for
many makeup routines today. It's no wonder that it's so common to
hear the phrase "I feel like I'm naked without my lipstick!"
Every girl's go-to makeup item and the power of a set of stained
lips is celebrated on National Lipstick Day on July 29. National
Lipstick Day is a super fun celebration of all that lipstick has
done for us - life is just so much more fun with it! It also has a
far more interesting history than you might think. The first
people to wear lipstick were likely Ancient Sumerians. Crushed
gemstones decorated not only their lips, but eyes and face as
well. Lipsticks in some form also caught on in ancient China with
beeswax, and in Ancient Greece, where courtesans wore
berry-derived dyes on their lips. The popularity only grew in
16th-century England, where a bright white face and hyper-crimson
lips were worn widely to steal Queen Elizabeth's look. It was used
only for courtesans and actors and considered uncouth to be worn
by the general public. By the 19th century, the first commercial
lipstick made of deer tallow, castor oil, and beeswax had been
made in France - and lipstick absolutely took off. The US quickly
caught on, applying lipstick with a brush rather than a tube. In
WW2, lipstick was scarce, and started to be packaged in plastic
and paper tubes. The first long-lasting, no-smear lipstick was
also invented during this time! The number of shades of lipstick
have exploded since the early 20th century, when colors were
limited. Each decade brought its own new style and popularized new
shades. In the 1970s, fun colors like sparkling navy blue and
frosted lime green were even introduced! Today, makeup videos and
"get ready with me's" dominate social media platforms
like Instagram and YouTube. Some makeup artists rise to huge fame
and make their living off of recommending different lipsticks and
trying them on for their viewers. The lipstick industry has grown
into a huge player in makeup and offers a chance for users to
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(EarthStation1.com is grateful to have
had Mr. Theodorakis's support in his final years :) ) =========
July 29, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and
lyricist credited with over 1,000 works, activist, politician,
Nobel Peace Prize nominee (d. September 2, 2021) is #born Michail
Theodorakis on the Greek island of Chios. He scored for the films
Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He composed
the "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad
Of Mauthausen", which has been described as the "most
beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust" and
possibly his best work. Up until his death in 2021, he was viewed
as Greece's best-known living composer. He was awarded the Lenin
Peace Prize. Politically, he was associated with the left because
of his long-standing ties to the Communist Party Of Greece (KKE).
He was an MP for the KKE from 1981 to 1990. Despite this however,
he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New
Democracy party in 1989, in order for the country to emerge from
the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous
scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou. He helped
establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and
leftists. In 1990 he was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and
1981), became a government minister under Konstantinos Mitsotakis,
and fought against drugs and terrorism and for culture, education
and better relations between Greece and Turkey. He continued to
speak out in favour of leftist causes, Greek-Turkish-Cypriot
relations, and against the War in Iraq. He was a key voice against
the 1967-1974 Greek junta, which imprisoned him and banned his
songs. Mikis Theodorakis died from cardiopulmonary arrest at his
home in Athens, at the age of 96. The Greek Prime Minister
declared three days of national mourning to honour him, and his
body was lain in state in the chapel of the Metropolitan Cathedral
of Athens, with many thousands of people, artists and political
leaders from all Greek parties paying their final respects.
Epitaphs were delivered by the President of the Hellenic Republic,
Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou, and the leader of the Greek Communist
Party, Dimitrios Koutsoumbas. Afterwards, according to his will,
his body was transferred by boat overnight to be buried at his
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( #JCKaelin here: As a specialist in the
area of Axis radio propaganda, I can tell you authoritatively that
the both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were *obsessed* with
discrediting Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton,
Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa as "J_wbators" -- precisely
because they were, as an ensemble, the best damn swing band on the
planet. Both nations constantly played their songs, but only
either before or after bad war news for the Allies, or parodies of
their songs. Why? Because they were *great*, and it really, really
made those bastards angry that they were great. Now Nazi Germany &
Imperial Japan are no more - but #SwingMusicRocks forever! )
========= July 29, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Charlie Christian, African
American swing and jazz guitarist (d. March 2, 1942) is #born
Charles Henry Christian in Bonham, Texas. Christian was an
important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure
in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national
exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra
from August 1939 to June 1941. His single-string technique,
combined with amplification, helped bring the guitar out of the
rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument. For
this, he is often credited with leading to the development of the
lead guitar role in musical ensembles and bands. John Hammond and
George T. Simon called Christian the best improvisational talent
of the swing era. In the liner notes to the album Solo Flight: The
Genius of Charlie Christian (Columbia, 1972), Gene Lees wrote that
"Many critics and musicians consider that Christian was one
of the founding fathers of bebop, or if not that, at least a
precursor to it." Christian's influence reached beyond jazz
and swing. In 1990, he was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of
Fame in the category Early Influence. Charlie Christian died of
tuberculosis at Seaview Sanitarium on Staten Island, New York,
aged 25. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Bonham, Texas; a
Texas State Historical Commission Marker and headstone were placed
in Gates Hill Cemetery in 1994, but the location of the historical
marker and headstone was disputed, and in March 2013, Fannin
County, Texas recognized that the marker was in the wrong spot,
and that Christian is in fact buried under a concrete slab at
Gates Hill Cemetery, Bonham, Texas, based on eyewitness accounts
from the funeral taken by Christian biographer Craig McKinney. The
gravesite is nontheless poorly constructed, poorly maintained and
shabby, and this distinguished jazz and swing pioneer prodigy
deserves so much better! In 2006 Oklahoma City renamed a street in
its Bricktown entertainment district "Charlie Christian
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July 29, 1966: Aesthetics: The Performing
Arts: Music: Music History: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock &
Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll):
British Rock And Roll (British Rock & Roll, British
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Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The United Kingdom:
Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock
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British Beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The
United Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock
'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): The British Invasion: The
Beatles: The "More Popular Than Jesus" Interview And
"It's A Lousy Country Where Anyone Black Is A Dirty Nigger"
Interview: -- In one of the most consequential media distortions
in popular music history generally and Beatles history in
particular, the American teen magazine Datebook publishes the
infamous John Lennon "More Popular Than Jesus" interview
along with the Paul McCartney "It's [ie America] A Lousy
Country Where Anyone Black Is A Dirty Nigger!" interviews
that sparked a hostile backlash against the Beatles throughout
America generally and the American South's bible belt
particularly. ========= The "More Popular Than Jesus"
1966 interview heard John Lennon of the Beatles claim that the
public's infatuation with the band surpassed that of Jesus Christ,
and that Christian faith was declining to the point where it might
be outlasted by rock music. His opinions drew no controversy when
published in the Evening Standard in London, but ignited angry
reactions from Christian communities in the United States when
republished. The controversy deeply impacted the band,
contributing significantly to their decision to cease touring
entirely. It also resulted in Lennon apologised at a series of
press conferences, clarifying that he was not comparing himself to
Christ. Lennon's comments incited protests and threats,
particularly throughout the Bible Belt in the Southern United
States. Some radio stations stopped playing Beatles songs, records
were publicly burned, press conferences were cancelled, and the Ku
Klux Klan picketed concerts. The controversy coincided with the
band's 1966 US tour and overshadowed press coverage of their
newest album, Revolver, when it was released one week later on
August 5, 1966, and just over three weeks later on August 23,
1966, The Beatles second Shea Stadium concert, held a little over
a year after their first triumphant appearance there, did not sell
out, with 11,000 of the 55,600 tickets still available;
nonetheless, The Beatles made more money from their appearance
than they had in 1965, receiving 189K USD - 65 per cent of the
gross takings of 292K USD. George Martin remarked "Curiously
enough the second Shea Stadium concert had about 11,000 seats
unsold. So it was a pretty unsettling time. And it was against
this background that they said, 'Right, we definitely won't do any
more. We are going to have a break and then we are going into the
studio to make a record.'"; that record was Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band, widely considered one of if not the
greatest rock album of all time and by musicologists as an early
concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition,
extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and popular
music production. The album had an immediate cross-generational
impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's
youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of
optimism and empowerment. In 1980, Lennon was murdered by a
religious Beatles fan, Mark David Chapman, who sometimes stated
that Lennon's comment was a motivating factor in the killing.
========= In the same July 29, 1966 Datebook issue that published
John Lennon's "More Popular Than Jesus" interview, it
also published the Paul McCartney "It's [ie America] A Lousy
Country Where Anyone Black Is A Dirty Nigger!" interview,
both of which sparked a hostile backlash against the Beatles
throughout America, particularly the American South's bible belt.
McCartney's quote is in fact a paraphrase -- not a direct
McCartney statement -- of the Beatles' criticism of American
racism - it was in fact the magazine chose the inflammatory
wording, not McCartney. The magazine's wording was editor Art
Unger's editorial choice, pulled from longer interviews and
rewritten in sensational language to sell magazines. The Beatles
had indeed said America was "a lousy country" for
calling Black people the n-word -- meaning they were condemning
racist behavior, not endorsing it -- but the magazine exaggerated
and reframed this into the shocking headline you saw. In later
interviews, McCartney clarified that they were criticizing racism,
not America as a whole. They were frustrated that speaking in
favor of civil rights made some people call them "extremists."
He stood by the belief that Black people are equal to white
people, and that honesty was better than giving a "showbiz
answer." He did not use the slur himself -- he was condemning
the fact that Americans used it. In fact, The Beatles were
outspoken against segregation. In 1964, they refused to play a
segregated concert in Jacksonville, Florida. McCartney said in
1966: "We weren't into prejudice_ Why should you separate
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July 29, 587 BC: Jerusalem: The History Of Jerusalem: Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Judaism: The History Of Judaism: The History Of Israel: The Kingdeom Judah: The History Of The Kingdom Of Judah: The Jewish-Babylonian War (Judah's Revolts Against Babylon) (601-586 BC): Sieges Of Jerusalem: The Siege Of Jerusalem (587 BC): -- The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple in the final event of the Judahite revolts against Babylon, in which Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Jerusalem, the capital city of the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem fell after a 30-month siege, following which the Babylonians systematically destroyed the city and the First Temple. The Kingdom of Judah was dissolved and many of its inhabitants were exiled to Babylon. During the late 7th century BC, Judah became a vassal kingdom of Babylon. In 601 BC, Jehoiakim, king of Judah, revolted against Babylonian rule despite the strong remonstrances of the prophet Jeremiah. Jehoiakim died for reasons unclear, and was succeeded by his son, Jeconiah. In 597 BC, the Babylonians besieged Jerusalem, and the city surrendered. Nebuchadnezzar pillaged Jerusalem and deported Jeconiah and other prominent citizens to Babylon; Jeconiah's uncle, Zedekiah, was installed as king. Later, encouraged by the Egyptians, Zedekiah launched a second revolt, and a Babylonian army was sent to retake Jerusalem. On Tisha B'Av, July 587 or 586 BC, the Babylonians took Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple and burned down the city. The small settlements surrounding the city, and those close to the western border of the kingdom, were destroyed as well. According to the Bible, Zedekiah attempted to escape, but was captured near Jericho. He was forced to watch the execution of his sons in Riblah, and his eyes were then put out. The destruction of Jerusalem and its temple led to a religious, spiritual and political crisis, which left its mark in prophetic literature and biblical tradition. The Kingdom of Judah was abolished and annexed as a Babylonian province with its center in Mizpah. The Judean elite, including the Davidic dynasty, were exiled to Babylon. After Babylon had fallen to Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, in 539 BC, he allowed the exiled Judeans to return to Zion and rebuild Jerusalem. The Second Temple was completed in 516 BC. On Sale Until Midnight Tonight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/teinjearkofc.html
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July 29, 1588: The European Wars Of
Religion: The Eighty Years' War (The Dutch Revolt): The
Anglo-Spanish Wars: The Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604): The Spanish
Armada (The Invincible Armada, The Enterprise Of England [Spanish:
Grande Y Felicisima Armada, "Great And Most Fortunate
Navy"]): The Battle Of Gravelines (1588): -- English naval
forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis
Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines,
France. The small port of Gravelines was then part of Flanders in
the Spanish Netherlands, close to the border with France and the
closest Spanish territory to England. Medina Sidonia tried to
re-form his fleet there and was reluctant to sail further east
knowing the danger from the shoals off Flanders, from which his
Dutch enemies had removed the sea marks. The English had learned
more of the Armada's strengths and weaknesses during the
skirmishes in the English Channel and had concluded it was
necessary to close within 100 yards (91 m) to penetrate the oak
hulls of the Spanish ships. They had spent most of their gunpowder
in the first engagements and had, after the Isle of Wight, been
forced to conserve their heavy shot and powder for a final attack
near Gravelines. During all the engagements, the Spanish heavy
guns could not easily be run in for reloading because of their
close spacing and the quantities of supplies stowed between decks,
as Francis Drake had discovered on capturing the damaged Rosario
in the Channel. Instead the gunners fired once and then jumped to
the rigging to attend to their main task as marines ready to board
enemy ships, as had been the practice in naval warfare at the
time. In fact, evidence from Armada wrecks in Ireland shows that
much of the fleet's ammunition was never spent. Their
determination to fight by boarding, rather than cannon fire at a
distance, proved a weakness for the Spanish; it had been effective
on occasions such as the battles of Lepanto and Ponta Delgada
(1582), but the English were aware of this strength and sought to
avoid it by keeping their distance. With its superior
manoeuvrability, the English fleet provoked Spanish fire while
staying out of range. The English then closed, firing repeated and
damaging broadsides into the enemy ships. This also enabled them
to maintain a position to windward so that the heeling Armada
hulls were exposed to damage below the water line. Many of the
Spanish gunners were killed or wounded by the English broadsides,
and the task of manning the cannon often fell to the regular foot
soldiers on board, who did not know how to operate the guns. The
ships were close enough for sailors on the upper decks of the
English and Spanish ships to exchange musket fire. After eight
hours, the English ships began to run out of ammunition, and some
gunners began loading objects such as chains into cannons. Around
4:00 pm, the English fired their last shots and were forced to
pull back. Five Spanish ships were lost. The galleass San Lorenzo,
flagship of Don Hugo de Moncada, ran aground at Calais and was
taken by Howard after murderous fighting between the crew, the
galley slaves, the English who eventually killed all Spanish and
slaves, and the French, who ultimately took possession of the
wreck. The galleons San Mateo and San Felipe drifted away in a
sinking condition, ran aground on the island of Walcheren the next
day, and were taken by the Dutch. One carrack ran aground near
Blankenberge; another foundered. Many other Spanish ships were
severely damaged, especially the Portuguese and some Spanish
Atlantic-class galleons (including some Neapolitan galleys) which
had to bear the brunt of the fighting during the early hours of
the battle in desperate individual actions against groups of
English ships. The Spanish plan to join with Parma's army had been
defeated and the English had gained some breathing space, but the
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July 29, 1958: The History Of Rocketry:
The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The
Cold War: The Space Age: Space Agencies Of The United States: The
National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA): The National
Aeronautics And Space Act (The National Aeronautics and Space Act)
Of 1958): --#BOTD: #HBD! U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
into law the National Aeronautics And Space Act, which creates the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act,
which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union's launch of
Sputnik, was drafted by the United States House Select Committee
on Astronautics and Space Exploration and on July 29, 1958 was
signed by President Eisenhower. Prior to enactment, the
responsibility for space exploration was deemed primarily a
military venture, in line with the Soviet model that had launched
the first orbital satellite. In large measure, the Act was
prompted by the lack of response by a US military infrastructure
that seemed incapable of keeping up the space race. The original
1958 act charged the new Agency with conducting the aeronautical
and space activities of the United States "so as to
contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:
"1) The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the
atmosphere and space; 2) The improvement of the usefulness,
performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and
space vehicles; 3) The development and operation of vehicles
capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies and living
organisms through space; #4 The establishment of long-range
studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the
opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of
aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific
purposes; 5) The preservation of the role of the United States as
a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in
the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities
within and outside the atmosphere. The making available to
agencies directly concerned with national defenses of discoveries
that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by
such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and
control nonmilitary aeronautical and space activities, of
information as to discoveries which have value or significance to
that agency; 6) Cooperation by the United States with other
nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act
and in the peaceful application of the results, thereof; and 7)
The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering
resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all
interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid
unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment."
In 2012, a ninth objective was added: "The preservation of
the United States preeminent position in aeronautics and space
through research and technology development related to associated
manufacturing processes." The Act abolished the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), transferring its
activities and resources to NASA effective October 1, 1958. The
Act also created a Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, for the
purpose of coordinating civilian and military space applications,
and keeping NASA and the Department of Defense "fully and
currently informed" of each other's space activities. To this
day, the United States has coordinated but separate military and
civilian space programs, with much of the former involved in
launching military and surveillance craft and, prior to the
Partial Test Ban Treaty, planning counter-measures to the
anticipated Soviet launch of nuclear warheads into space. The
phrase "We came in peace for all mankind", inscribed on
a plaque left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 11, is derived
from the Act's declaration of NASA's policy and purpose: "The
Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United
States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful
purposes for the benefit of all mankind." The Act was
subsequently amended to remove gender bias, so that this policy
statement now reads: "Devotion of Space Activities to
Peaceful Purposes for Benefit of All Humankind.--Congress declares
that it is the policy of the United States that activities in
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July 29, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and pioneering UFO investigator whose career spanned 64 years, original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident (d. May 13, 2019) is #born Stanton Terry Friedman in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Friedman was raised in nearby Linden and graduated from Linden High School in 1951; he attended Rutgers University and then transferred to the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1955 and a master's degree in nuclear physics in 1956. He was then employed for 14 years in a variety of position at companies such as TRW, GE, Aerojet General and McDonnell Douglas. His classified work included projects such as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion powered rockets and compac nuclear powerplants. In 1958, he became interested in UFOs, and lectured on them from 1967 to the present. He has given lectures at 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 US state, 10 Canadian provinces and 18 other countries. He also published over 90 papers on UFOs and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs, including Larry King and many others. He has appeared in dozens of documentaries on the UFO subject. He was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored Crash at Corona, widely considered the definitive study of the incident. He also brought to light the controversial Majestic 12 group and published Top Secret?MAJIC about this organization which, according to his research, was secretly convened to study UFOs and comprised of top scientists of the period such as Donald H. Menzel and James Forrestal, among others. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden of Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. In 2007, the city of Fredricton, New Brunswick, declared August 27 Stanton Friedman Day. He has provided written testimony to the US Congress on UFOs, and has appeared twice at the United Nations. Stanton Friedman died of a heart attack at the Toronto Pearson Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, aged 84. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale Until Midnight Tonight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alsear512pad.html
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July 28-29, 1932: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Aftermath Of World War I: The Aftermath Of World War I
In The United States: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum,
Between The Wars): The Great Depression: The Great Depression In
The United States: The Bonus Army (The Bonus March): The Bonus
Army Eviction: -- President Herbert Hoover orders the United
States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World
War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.. U.S. Army troops
under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Major Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Major George S. Patton, attacked and burned the
encampments of unemployed World War I veterans. Eight days prior,
on July 20, 1932 in Washington, D.C., police fired tear gas at the
World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who
attempt to march to the White House. Known as the Bonus Army, they
were an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers: 17,000 U.S. World War
I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups: who gathered in
Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment
redemption of their service certificates. Organizers called the
demonstrators the "Bonus Expeditionary Force", to echo
the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the
media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus
Marchers". On June 17, 1932, around a thousand World War I
veterans amassed at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate
deliberated and voted on the Wright Patman Bonus Bill, which had
passed the US House of Representatives on June 15th, that would
move forward the payment date for World War I veterans to receive
the cash bonuses they were to receive in 1945 according to the
World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924, also known as the
Bonus Act. The bill was defeated in the US Senate by a vote of
62-18. The Bonus Army were the 43,000 marchers - 17,000 U.S. World
War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups - who
gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand
cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Organizers
called the demonstrators the "Bonus Expeditionary Force",
to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces,
while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or
"Bonus Marchers". The contingent was led by Walter W.
Waters, a former sergeant. Many of the war veterans had been out
of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War
Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the
form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each
certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face
value equal to the soldier's promised payment compound interest.
The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash
payment of their certificates. On July 28, U.S. Attorney General
William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all
government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots
were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President
Herbert Hoover then ordered the Army to assemble on Pennsylvania
Avenue to clear the marchers from the area. Army Chief Of Staff
General Douglas MacArthur, along with his aide Major Dwight D.
Eisenhower, commanded the infantry and cavalry, supported by six
tanks under the command of Major George S. Patton . Despite two
orders by President Hoover to General MacArthur not to cross the
Anacostia bridge into the Bonus Army marcher's camp that night,
the marchers with their wives and children were forcibly driven
out of their campsite, and their shelters and belongings burned. A
second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt
administration was defused in May with an offer of jobs with the
Civilian Conservation Corps at Fort Hunt, Virginia, which most of
the group accepted. Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the
May 22 deadline were given transportation home. In 1936, Congress
overrode President Roosevelt's veto and paid the veterans their
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July 29, 1890: #DOTD: #RIP: Vincent Van
Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter and illustrator, generally
considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt and one of
the greatest painters of all time (b. March 30, 1853) #dies in
Auvers-sur-Oise, France aged 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound he received two day's prior (July 27, 1890). He is buried at
Auvers-Sur-Oise Town Cemetery in Auvers-Sur-Oise, Ile-De-France
(Paris), France. Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert,
Holland. He was a during his short (10-year) painting career he
produced over 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings, but sold only
one during his lifetime. In 1987, the sale of his painting Irises
brought the highest price ever paid for a work of art up to that
time. During his life, Van Gogh suffered from despair and bouts of
mental illness, at one point cutting off part of his own left ear.
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July 29, 1976: Crime: Crime In The United
States: Serial Killings: The Son Of Sam Murders: -- #DOTD: #RIP:
David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "The Son Of Sam", kills one
person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of
attacks in New York City. David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard
David Falco; June 1, 1953), known also as the Son of Sam and the
.44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded
guilty to eight separate shooting attacks that began in New York
City during the summer of 1976. The crimes were perpetrated with a
.44 caliber Bulldog revolver. He killed six people and wounded
nine others by July 1977. As the number of victims increased,
Berkowitz eluded the biggest police manhunt in the history of New
York City while leaving letters that mocked the police and
promised further crimes, which were highly publicized by the
press. The killing spree terrorized New Yorkers and achieved
worldwide notoriety. On the night of August 10, 1977, Berkowitz
was taken into custody by New York City police homicide detectives
in front of his Yonkers apartment building, and he was
subsequently indicted for eight shooting incidents. He confessed
to all of them, and initially claimed to have been obeying the
orders of a demon, manifested in the form of a dog, "Harvey",
who belonged to his neighbor "Sam". Despite his
explanation, Berkowitz was found mentally competent to stand
trial. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was
incarcerated in state prison. He subsequently admitted the
dog-and-devil story was a hoax. In the course of further police
investigations, Berkowitz was also implicated in many unsolved
arsons in the city. Intense coverage of the case by the media lent
a kind of celebrity status to Berkowitz, and some observers noted
that he seemed to enjoy it. In response, the New York State
legislature enacted new legal statutes, known popularly as "Son
of Sam laws", designed to keep criminals from profiting
financially from the publicity created by their crimes. Despite
various amendments and legal challenges, the statutes have
remained law in New York, and similar laws have been enacted in
several other states. Berkowitz has been incarcerated since his
arrest and is serving six consecutive life sentences. During the
mid-1990s, he amended his confession to claim that he had been a
member of a violent Satanic cult that orchestrated the incidents
as ritual murder. He remains the only person ever charged with the
shootings. Although some law enforcement authorities have
questioned whether Berkowitz's claims are credible, a new
investigation of the murders began in 1996, but was suspended
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July 29, 1907: Scouting (The Scout
Movement): The Boy Scouts Association: -- Sir Robert Baden-Powell
sets up the Brownsea Island Scout Camp in Poole Harbour on the
south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1 to August 9,
1907 with boys from different social backgrounds participating in
activities around camping, observation, woodcraft, chivalry,
lifesaving and patriotism, and is regarded as the foundation of
the Scouting movement generally, and the Boy Scouts in particular,
with the Girl Scouts and Pathfinder to follow in later years. The
Brownsea Island Scout Camp began as a boys' camping event on
Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by
Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book
Scouting for Boys. Up to the early 1930s, camping by Boy Scouts
continued on Brownsea Island. In 1963, a formal 50-acre (20 ha)
Scout campsite was opened by Olave Baden-Powell, when the island
became a nature conservation area owned by the National Trust. In
1973, a Scout Jamboree was held on the island with 600 Scouts. The
worldwide centenary of Scouting took place at the Brownsea Island
Scout camp, celebrated on August 1, 2007, the 100th anniversary of
the start of the first encampment. Activities by The Scout
Association at the campsite included four Scout camps and a
Sunrise Ceremony. Named after this one, there is also a Brownsea
Island in The Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia, USA, a
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July 29, 1883: #BOTD: Benito Mussolini,
Italian politician and journalist, founder of the fascist
political movement The Italian Fasci of Combat (Fasci Italiani di
Combattimento), leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito
Nazionale Fascista, PNF), Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943;
constitutional leader of the Italy until 1925, when he dropped the
pretense of democracy and established a dictatorshipi (d. April
28, 1945) is #born in Dovia, Italy. Benito Amilcare Andrea
Mussolini was known as Il Duce ("The Leader") and was
the founder of Italian Fascism. In 1912, Mussolini had been a
leading member of the National Directorate of the Italian
Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled from the PSI for
advocating military intervention in World War I, in opposition to
the party's stance on neutrality. Mussolini served in the Royal
Italian Army during the war until he was wounded and discharged in
1917. Mussolini denounced the PSI, his views now centering on
nationalism instead of socialism and later founded the fascist
movement which came to oppose egalitarianism and class conflict,
instead advocating revolutionary nationalism transcending class
lines. On March 23, 1919, in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini
founded the fascist political movement The Italian Fasci of Combat
(Fasci Italiani di Combattimento); Italian Fascism, also known
simply as Fascism, is the original fascist ideology, developed in
Italy and copied by other countries such as Germany and Austria.
Following the March on Rome in October 1922 (an organized mass
demonstration in October 1922, which resulted in Benito
Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or
PNF) acceding to power in the Kingdom of Italy), Mussolini became
the youngest Prime Minister in Italian history until the
appointment of Matteo Renzi in February 2014. After removing all
political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor
strikes, Mussolini and his followers consolidated their power
through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a
one-party dictatorship. Within five years, Mussolini had
established dictatorial authority by both legal and extraordinary
means and aspired to create a totalitarian state. Mussolini
remained in power until he was deposed by King Victor Emmanuel III
in 1943, but a few months later he became the leader of the
Italian Social Republic, a German client regime in northern Italy
- Mussolini held this post until his death. In late April 1945, in
the wake of near total defeat, Mussolini and his mistress Clara
Petacci attempted to flee to Switzerland; then twenty three years
of Fascist rule in Italy abruptly ended as Italian partisans shoot
and kill Benito Mussolini. The day before, Mussolini and his
mistress Clara Petacci were arrested in Dongo, Lombardy by two
communist partisans known by the nom de guerre (war name) they
used, Valerio and Bellini, and Mussolini was identified by the
Political Commissar of the partisans' 52nd Garibaldi Brigade,
Urbano Lazzaro. After several unsuccessful attempts to take them
to Como they were brought to Mezzegra, and they spent their last
night in the house of the De Maria family. The next day, Mussolini
and Petacci both received a summary execution, shot along with
most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and
officials of the Italian Social Republic. The bodies were then
hung upside down and pelted with stones by jeering crowds in
Milan. He is buried at San Cassiano Cemetery in his hometown of
Predappio, Province of Forli-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. On
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July 29, 1921: The Aftermath Of World War
I: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The
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In German Nationalism: The Thule Society: The National Socialist
German Workers' Party (NSDAP): -- Adolf Hitler becomes leader of
the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), commonly
referred to in English as the Nazi Party. On January 5, 1919, The
German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was founded in
Munich by Anton Drexler, a German far-right political leader of
the 1920s and member of the Thule Society, a German occultist and
volkisch group founded in Munich right after World War I, named
after a mythical northern country in Greek legend. The society is
notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the German
Workers' Party. The party's membership emerged from the German
nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture,
which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I
Germany. The party was created as a means to draw workers away
from communism and into volkisch nationalism. Initially, Nazi
political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois
and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although such aspects were later
downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities and
in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to anti-Semitic and
anti-Marxist themes. On September 12, 1919, Adolf Hitler became
member No. 7, though he was simultaneously a spy employed to
observe and report on the group's activities by the Germany army.
On February 24, 1920, the Nazi Party was founded by Drexler, just
as he had founded its precursor, the German Workers' Party. Hitler
reorganized it and renamed it the National Socialist German
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July 29, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Dag
Hammarskjold (pronounced "Dawg Hammerwheld"), Swedish
economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. September 18, 1961) is #born Dag
Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold in Jonkoping to the noble family
Hammarskjold. Dag Hammarskjold still remains the youngest person
to have held the post, being only 47 years old when he was
appointed in 1953. His second term was cut short when he died in
the crash of his DC-6 airplane in Northern Rhodesia while en route
to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis. He is the only
person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
Hammarskjold has been referred to as one of the two best
secretaries-general of the United Nations, and his appointment has
been mentioned as the most notable success for the UN. U.S.
president John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjold "the greatest
statesman of our century." Dag Hammarskjold died aged 56
along with all 15 other passengers in the suspicious 1961 Ndola
Transair Sweden DC-6 Crash, Transair Sweden Flight 001, that may
well have been in fact a political assassination, as the crash
occurred while Dag Hammarskjold was attempting to negotiate peace
in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. The Transair Sweden DC-6 passenger aircraft, operating for
the United Nations, crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia
(present-day Zambia). The crash resulted in the deaths of all
people on board, including Dag Hammarskjold, the second
Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others.
Hammarskjold had been en route to ceasefire negotiations with
Moise Tshombe during the Congo Crisis. Three official inquiries
failed to determine conclusively the cause of the crash, which set
off a succession crisis at the United Nations. A number of
historians and military experts criticize the official inquiries,
pointing to evidence of foul play that had been omitted from the
inquiries. The three official inquiries failed to determine
conclusively the cause of the crash that led to the death of
Hammarskjold. The Rhodesian Board of Investigation sent 180 men to
search a six-square-kilometer area of the last sector of the
aircraft's flight path, looking for evidence as to the cause of
the crash. No evidence of a bomb, surface-to-air missile, or
hijacking was found. The official report stated that two of the
dead Swedish bodyguards had suffered multiple bullet wounds.
Medical examination, performed by the initial Rhodesian Board of
Investigation and reported in the UN official report, indicated
that the wounds were superficial, and that the bullets showed no
signs of rifling. They concluded that cartridges had exploded in
the fire in proximity to the bodyguards. No evidence of foul play
was found in the wreckage of the aircraft. The Rhodesian Board
concluded that the pilot flew too low and struck trees, thereby
bringing the aircraft to the ground. The official inquiry has come
under scrutiny and criticism from historians, who point to a
number of conclusions made which they claim were done to steer
focus away from the assassination angle. The official report
dismissed a number of pieces of evidence that would have supported
the view that Hammarskjold was assassinated. Some of these
dismissals have been criticized, such as the conclusion that
bullet wounds could have been caused by bullets exploding in a
fire. Expert tests have questioned this conclusion, arguing that
exploding bullets could not break the surface of the skin. Major
C. F. Westell, a ballistics authority, said, "I can certainly
describe as sheer nonsense the statement that cartridges of
machine guns or pistols detonated in a fire can penetrate a human
body." He based his statement on a large scale experiment
that had been done to determine if military fire brigades would be
in danger working near munitions depots. Other experts conducted
and filmed tests showing that bullets heated to the point of
explosion did not achieve sufficient velocity to penetrate their
box container. Despite the multiple official inquiries that failed
to find evidence of assassination or other forms of foul play,
several individuals have continued to advance a theory of the
crash being deliberately caused by hostile interests; the day
after the crash, former U.S. President Harry Truman commented that
Hammarskjold "was on the point of getting something done when
they killed him. Notice that I said 'when they killed him'."
At the time of Hammarskjold's death, the Central Intelligence
Agency and other Western agencies were actively involved in the
political situation in the Congo, which culminated in Belgian and
US support for the secession of Katanga and the assassination of
former prime minister Patrice Lumumba. The Belgian government had
a vested interest in maintaining their control over much of the
country's copper industry during the Congolese transition from
colonial rule to independence. Concerns about the nationalisation
of the copper industry could have provided a financial incentive
to remove either Lumumba or Hammarskjold. On July 29, 2005,
Norwegian Army Major general Bjorn Egge gave an interview to the
newspaper Aftenposten on the events surrounding Hammarskjold's
death. According to Egge, who had been the first UN officer to see
the body, Hammarskjold had a hole in his forehead, and this hole
was subsequently airbrushed from photos taken of the body. It
appeared to Egge that Hammarskjold had been thrown from the plane,
and grass and leaves in his hands might indicate that he survived
the crash - and that he had tried to scramble away from the
wreckage. Egge did not officially claim that the wound was a
gunshot wound. According to a dozen witnesses interviewed by
Swedish aid worker Goran Bjorkdahl in the 2000s, Hammarskjold's
plane was shot down by another aircraft. Bjorkdahl also reviewed
previously unavailable archive documents and internal UN
communications. He believes that there was an intentional shoot
down for the benefit of mining companies like Union Miniere. In
April 2014, the Guardian published evidence implicating Jan van
Risseghem, a military pilot who served with the RAF during World
War II, later with the Belgian Air Force, and who became known as
the pilot of Moise Tshombe in Katanga. The article claims that an
American NSA employee, former naval pilot Commander Charles
Southall, working at the NSA listening station in Cyprus in 1961
shortly after midnight on the night of the crash, heard an
intercept of a pilot's commentary in the air over Ndola, 5,300 km
(3,300 mi) away. Southall recalled the pilot saying: "I see a
transport plane coming low. All the lights are on. I'm going down
to make a run on it. Yes, it is the Transair DC-6. It's the
plane," adding that his voice was "cool and
professional". Then he heard the sound of gunfire and the
pilot exclaiming: "I've hit it. There are flames! It's going
down. It's crashing!" Based on aircraft registration and
availability with the Katangese Air Force, registration KAT-93, a
Fouga CM.170 Magister would be the most likely aircraft used and
the website Belgian Wings claims that van Risseghem piloted the
Magisters for the KAF in 1961. A further article was published by
The Guardian in January 2019, repeating the allegations against
van Risseghem and citing further evidence uncovered by the makers
of the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjold, including refutations
of his alibi that he was not flying at the time of the crash. In
December 2018, the German freelance historian Torben Gulstorff
published an article in the Lobster magazine, arguing that a
German Dornier DO-28A may have been used for the attack on
Hammarskjold's DC-6. The plane was delivered to Katanga by end of
August 1961 and would have been technically capable of
accomplishing such an assault. In 2011, Who Killed Hammarskjold?
by Susan Williams, a University of London scholar of
decolonisation in Africa, outlined several serious doubts about
the accidental character of the plane crash in 1961. It led to the
formation of independent, unofficial commission of inquiry in 2012
to provide an opinion on whether there was new evidence that would
justify the UN re-opening its 1962 inquiry - the commission was
headed by the British jurist Stephen Sedley. The Sedley
commission's report was presented on September 9, 2013, at the
Peace Palace in The Hague. It recommended that the UN re-open its
inquiry "pursuant to General Assembly resolution 1759 (XVII)
of 26 October 1962". Its findings formed the basis of the
constitution of a panel of experts, and in March 2015 the
appointment of Eminent Person Mohamed Chande Othman at the UN to
support the ongoing Hammarskjold Commission. On August 19, 1998,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC), stated that recently uncovered
letters had implicated MI5, the CIA, and then South African
intelligence services in the crash. One TRC letter said that a
bomb in the aircraft's wheel bay was set to detonate when the
wheels came down for a landing. Tutu said that they were unable to
investigate the truth of the letters or the allegations that South
African or Western intelligence agencies played a role in the
crash. The British Foreign Office suggested that they may have
been created as Soviet misinformation or disinformation. Dag
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July 29, 1892: #BOTD: #HBD! William
Powell, American actor and singer, a major film star at
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (d. March 5, 11984) is #born William
Horatio Powell in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Under contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films,
including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles
characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Powell was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man
(1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life With Father (1947).
William Powell died in Palm Springs, California at the age of 91
from pneumonia. He is buried at the Desert Memorial Park in
Cathedral City, California, near his third wife, Diana Lewis, and
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July 29, 1858: Japan: The History Of
Japan: The United States: The History Of The United States: United
States-Japan Relations: Sakoku (Japanese: "Locked Country)
(Japanese Isolationism Of The Tokugawa Shogunate [Edo Shogunate]):
The Treaty Of Amity And Commerce Between Japan And The United
States (Japanese: Nichibei Shuko Tsusho Joyaku) (The Harris
Treaty): -- The United States and Japan sign The Treaty Of Amity
And Commerce, more popularly known the Harris Treaty, on the deck
of the USS Powhatan in Edo (now Tokyo) Bay. It opened the ports of
Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted
extraterritoriality to foreigners, among a number of trading
stipulations. The treaty followed the 1854 Convention Of Kanagawa,
which granted coaling rights for US ships and allowed for a US
Consul in Shimoda. Although Commodore Matthew Perry secured fuel
for US ships and protection for US sailors, he left the important
matter of trading rights to Townsend Harris, another US envoy who
negotiated with the Tokugawa shogunate; the treaty is therefore
often referred to as the "Harris Treaty". It took two
years to break down Japanese resistance, but with the threat of
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July 29, 1950: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean
Conflict: The Cold War (1947-1953): The Cold War In Asia: The
Korean War: War Crimes: Massacres Of The Korean War: The No Gun Ri
Massacre (July 26-29, 1950) (Korean: Nogeunli Yangmin Hagsal
Sageon): -- After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre, a mass
killing of South Korean refugees by U.S. military air and ground
fire near the village of Nogeun-ri in central South Korea between
July 26 and 29, 1950, ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment
is withdrawn. In 2005, a South Korean government inquest certified
the names of 163 dead or missing and 55 wounded, and added that
many other victims' names were not reported. The No Gun Ri Peace
Foundation estimates 250-300 were killed, mostly women and
children. The incident was little-known outside Korea until
publication of an Associated Press (AP) story in 1999 in which
veterans of the U.S. Army unit involved, the 7th Cavalry Regiment,
corroborated survivors' accounts. The AP also uncovered
declassified U.S. Army orders to fire on approaching civilians
because of reports of North Korean infiltration of refugee groups.
In 2001, the United States Army conducted an investigation and,
after previously rejecting survivors' claims, acknowledged the
killings, but described the three-day event as "an
unfortunate tragedy inherent to war and not a deliberate killing".
Then-President Bill Clinton issued a statement of regret, adding
the next day that "things happened which were wrong",
but survivors' demands for an apology and compensation were
rejected. South Korean investigators disagreed with the U.S.
report, saying they believed that 7th Cavalry troops were ordered
to fire on the refugees. The survivors' group called the U.S.
report a "whitewash". The AP later discovered additional
archival documents showing that U.S. commanders ordered troops to
"shoot" and "fire on" civilians at the war
front during this period; these declassified documents had been
found but not disclosed by the Pentagon investigators. Among the
undisclosed documents was a letter from the U.S. ambassador in
South Korea stating that the U.S. military had adopted a
theater-wide policy of firing on approaching refugee groups.
Despite demands, the U.S. investigation was not reopened. Prompted
by the exposure of No Gun Ri, survivors of similar alleged
incidents from 1950-51 filed reports with the Seoul government. In
2008, an investigative commission said more than 200 cases of
alleged large-scale killings by the U.S. military had been
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July 29, 1965: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The
Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The
Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam
War: The Escalation Of The Vietnam War: --The first 4,000 101st
Airborne Division paratroopers, all members of the 1st Brigade,
arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. They were deployed to
II Corps, a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN,
the army of the nation state of South Vietnam), with the following
units: 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry; 2d Battalion, 327th
Infantry; 2d Battalion, 502d Infantry; 2d Battalion, 320th
Artillery; Troop A, 2nd Squadron 17th Cavalry; 101st Support
Battalion (Provisional) ; Co A, 326th Engineer Battalion; Co D,
326th Medical Battalion; Co B, 501st Signal Battalion; 20th
Chemical Detachment; 181st Military Intelligence Detachment; 406th
Army Security Agency Detachment. From 1965 to 1967, the 1st
brigade operated independently as sort of a fire brigade and
earned the reputation as being called the "Nomads of
Vietnam." They literally fought in every area of Vietnam from
the Demilitarized Zone up north all the way down the Central
Highlands. In May 1967 the 1st Brigade operated as part of Task
Force Oregon, a United States Army division-sized unit composed of
3 separate infantry brigades, active in Quang Nga and Quang Tin
Provinces, South Vietnam from April to September 1967 when it was
redesignated the 23rd Infantry Division, more commonly known as,
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July 29, 1967: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The
Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The
Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam
War: Maritime Incidents: Maritime Accidents: Maritime Disasters:
Ship Fires: Aircraft Carrier Fires: The 1967 USS Forrestal Fire:
-- Off the coast of North Vietnam, the USS Forrestal catches on
fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II. An
electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to
fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The
flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and
triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors
and injured 161. At the time, Forrestal was engaged in combat
operations in the Gulf Of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War. The ship
survived, but with damage exceeding 72M USD, not including the
damage to aircraft. Future United States Senator John McCain and
future four-star admiral and U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Ronald
J. Zlatoper were among the survivors. Another on-board officer,
Lieutenant Tom Treanore, later returned to the ship as her
commander and retired an admiral. The incident was the second of
three serious fires to strike American carriers in the 1960s. A
1966 fire aboard USS Oriskany killed 44 and injured 138 and a 1969
fire aboard USS Enterprise killed 28 and injured 314. The disaster
prompted the Navy to revise its firefighting practices. It also
modified its weapon handling procedures and installed a deck wash
down system on all carriers. The newly established Farrier
Firefighting School in Norfolk, Virginia was named after Chief
Gerald W. Farrier, the commander of Damage Control Team 8, who was
among the first to die in the fire and explosions. On Sale Until
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July 29, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Dr. Sanford
Gottlieb, nicknamed Sandy, television journalist, head of The
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) for 14 years,
director of New Directions and United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear
War, program head of The Center For Defense Information (CDI) who,
thanks to his activism, was included on President Nixon's "Enemies
List" and was denied a visa to the Soviet Union (Birthdate
Unknown, 1926) #dies after a period of declining health, aged
93-94. He was survived by his wife Gladys, with whom he would have
celebrated 75 years of marriage that September; children Steve
(Hong), Barbara (Jose) and Gordon (Rob); his granddaughter
Miranda; and many nieces and nephews. His burial details are not
publicly disclosed. Sanford Gottlieb was born in Brooklyn in 1926,
the son of Helen and Sydney Gottlieb. Thanks to the GI Bill, he
attended Dartmouth College, class of 1946. A year later, he
married fellow Brooklynite Gladys Blumenthal, and they moved to
Paris where he attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the
Sorbonne, where he obtained his doctorate. They returned to New
York in 1952; he worked in the labor movement for the rest of the
decade. Even before the anti-war presidential campaign of Senator
Eugene McCarthy in 1968, he pushed the peace movement to engage in
electoral politics. After relocating to Kensington, Maryland from
1960-1994 he devoted his life as a leader of grassroots campaigns
for a limited test ban treaty; a negotiated end to the Vietnam
War; a boycott of President Reagan's Star Wars program; and
reduced military spending. After his retirement, he authored two
books, "Defense Addiction: Can America Kick the Habit"
(1997) and "Red to Blue: Congressman Van Hollen and
Grassroots Politics" (2009). On Sale Until Midnight Tonight
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July 29, 1900: #BOTD: #HBD! Don Redman,
African American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, singer and
composer (d. November 30, 1964) is #born Donald Matthew Redman in
Piedmont, Mineral County, West Virginia. His father was a music
teacher, his mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at
the age of three, joined his first band at the age of six and by
the age of 12 was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from
trumpet to oboe as well as piano. He studied at Storer College in
Harper's Ferry and at the Boston Conservatory, then joined Billy
Page's Broadway Syncopaters in New York City. (He was the uncle of
saxophonist Dewey Redman, and thus great-uncle of saxophonist
Joshua Redman and trumpeter Carlos Redman.) In 1923, Redman joined
the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, mostly playing clarinet and
saxophones. He began writing arrangements, and Redman did much to
formulate the sound that was to become swing. A trademark of
Redman's arrangements was the band playing harmony under written
solos. He played brass and reed sections off each other in a
call-response pattern, having one section punctuate the figures of
another, and moved the melody around different orchestral sections
and soloists. His use of this technique was sophisticated, highly
innovative, and formed the basis of much big band jazz writing in
the following decades. In 1927 Jean Goldkette convinced Redman to
join McKinney's Cotton Pickers as their musical director and
leader. He was responsible for their great success and arranged
over half of their music (splitting the arranging duties with John
Nesbitt through 1931). Redman was occasionally featured as their
vocalist, displaying a charming, humorous vocal style. Redman then
formed his own band in 1931, which got a residency at the famous
Manhattan jazz club Connie's Inn. Redman signed with Brunswick
Records and also did a series of radio broadcasts. Redman and his
Orchestra also provided music for the animated short I Heard, part
of the Betty Boop series produced by Fleischer Studios and
distributed by Paramount. Redman composed original music for the
short, which was released on September 1, 1933. The Brunswick
records Redman made between 1931-1934 were some of the most
complex pre-swing hot jazz arrangements of popular tunes. Redman's
band didn't rely on just a driving rhythm or great soloists, but
it had an overall level of arranging sophistication that was
seldom heard by other black bands of the period. The popular
vocalist, Harlan Lattimore, provided about half of the vocals
during this period. In 1933, his band made a Vitaphone short film
for Warner Bros. Redman recorded for Brunswick through 1934. He
then did a number of sides for ARC in 1936 (issued on their
Vocalion, Perfect, Melotone, etc.) and in 1937, he pioneered a
series of swing re-arrangements of old classic pop tunes for the
Variety label. His use of a swinging vocal group (called "The
Swing Choir") was very modern and even today, quite usual,
with Redman's sophisticated counterpoint melodies. He signed with
Bluebird in 1938 and recorded with them until 1940, when he
disbanded. When Redman disbanded his orchestra, he concentrated on
freelance work writing arrangements. Some of his arrangements
became hits for Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. He
traveled to Europe in 1946 leading an all-star band that included
Don Byas, Tyree Glenn, and Billy Taylor. He appeared on Uptown
Jubilee on the CBS Television network for the 1949 season. In the
1950s he was music director for singer Pearl Bailey. In the early
1960s he played piano for the Georgia Minstrels Concert and
soprano sax with Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's band. He was named
a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame on May 6, 2009.
Don Redman died in New York City, aged 64; according to his
brother-in-law, Velibor Pedevski, the cause was liver failure. His
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July 29, 1946: Anti-Communism In The
United States: The Red Scare: The Second Red Scare: The Hollywood
Blacklist: Billy's Blacklist: -- William R. Wilkerson, publisher
and founder of The Hollywood Reporter, published a "TradeView"
column entitled "A Vote For Joe Stalin". It named as
Communist sympathizers Dalton Trumbo, Maurice Rapf, Lester Cole,
Howard Koch, Harold Buchman, John Wexley, Ring Lardner Jr., Harold
Salemson, Henry Meyers, Theodore Strauss, and John Howard Lawson.
In August and September 1946, Wilkerson published other columns
containing names of numerous purported Communists and
sympathizers. They became known as "Billy's List" and
"Billy's Blacklist". In 1962, when Wilkerson died, his
THR obituary stated he had "named names, pseudonyms and card
numbers and was widely credited with being chiefly responsible for
preventing communists from becoming entrenched in Hollywood
production - something that foreign film unions have been unable
to do." In a 65th-anniversary article in 2012, Wilkerson's
son apologized for the paper's role in the blacklist, stating that
his father was motivated by revenge for his own thwarted ambition
to own a studio. On October 20, 1947, The House Un-American
Activities Committee began its investigation into Communist
infiltration of Hollywood, drawing upon the names in The Hollywood
Reporter's list to subpoenae a number of persons working in the
Hollywood film industry to testify at hearings. The committee had
declared its intention to investigate whether Communist agents and
sympathizers had been planting propaganda in American films,
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July 29, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Irwin Corey,
American stand-up comic, actor and activist (d. February 6, 2017)
is #born Irwin Eli Cohen in Brooklyn, New York. Often billed as
Professor Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority, he
introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up
comedy at the San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny Bruce
described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of
all time". Poverty-stricken after his father deserted the
family, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings
in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained
until his early teens. He then rode in boxcars out to California,
and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During
the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps
and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight
Golden Gloves boxing champion. In 1938, Corey returned to New
York, where he got a job writing and performing in Pins and
Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the
"garment district". He claimed that he was fired from
this job for his union organizing activities. Five years later, he
was working in New Faces of 1943 and appearing at the Village
Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during
World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he
claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a
homosexual. From the late 1940s, he cultivated his "Professor"
character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his
bushy hair sprouting in all directions, Corey would amble on stage
in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However
..." He created a new style of double-talk comedy; instead of
making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg",
like double-talker Al Kelly, the Professor would season his speech
with many long and florid, but authentic, words. The professor
would then launch into observations about anything under the sun,
but seldom actually making sense. Changing topics suddenly, he
would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His
quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn
straight man, heckler or interviewer. One fan of Corey's comedy,
despite their radically different politics, was Ayn Rand. Theatre
critic Kenneth Tynan wrote of the Professor in The New Yorker,
"Corey is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty
of all that our civilization holds dear, and one of the funniest
grotesques in America. He is Chaplin's tramp with a college
education". During the 1960 election, Corey campaigned for
president on Hugh Hefner's Playboy ticket. In 1951, Corey appeared
as "Abou Ben Atom", the Genie, in the cult flop Broadway
musical Flahooley along with Yma Sumac, the Bil and Cora Baird
Marionettes and Barbara Cook (in her Broadway debut). Corey's
performance of "Springtime Cometh" can be heard on the
show's original cast album. Corey supported Communist/Socialist
left-wing politics. He appeared in support of Cuban children,
Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Communist Party, and was
blacklisted in the 1950s, the effects of which he stated lingered
throughout his life. Corey appeared occasionally in 1950s
television as a character actor. He appeared in an episode of The
Phil Silvers Show titled "Bilko's Grand Hotel", in which
Corey plays an unkempt Bowery bum being passed off as a hotelier
by Sgt. Bilko. The Professor was a frequent guest comic on variety
shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and
1970s. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when
a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a
spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got
the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated
magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be
disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in
shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point.
Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977
during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched
affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show
(1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine
with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant
butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show
in 1968. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including
as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. Corey became so
synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode
Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain
changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with
pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate
how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the
commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had
meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos
for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival
stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often
appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would
end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands
literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest
starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey was a frequent
guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson during the late
1960s and early 1970s. During the last 1970s and early 1980s, he
was a frequent guest on The Merv Griffin Show. Corey appeared in
various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a
production of Hamlet. When the publicity-shy Thomas Pynchon won
the National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity's Rainbow in
1974, he asked Corey to accept it on his behalf. The New York
Times described the resulting speech as "...a series of bad
jokes and mangled syntax which left some people roaring with
laughter and others perplexed." In 1975, Corey gave a
typically long-winded, nonsensical performance in New York City
for journalists waiting for the Rolling Stones to announce the
band's 1975 Tour of the Americas. The press was still listening to
Corey ramble on when they finally noticed that the Stones were
playing "Brown Sugar" on a flatbed truck driving down
Fifth Avenue. Corey first performed on Late Night with David
Letterman in 1982, but never returned, which Cory claimed was a
result of the blacklist still being in effect. In 2009, filmmaker
Jordan Stone began filming what was to become an award-winning
documentary film called "Irwin and Fran". Political
activist and fellow stand-up comedian Dick Gregory shared some
in-depth and provocative memories and Academy Award-winning
actress Susan Sarandon narrated in a very personal tone. The film
won The People's Film Festival Best Film Award in 2013. Corey was
married for 70 years to Frances Berman Corey, who died in May
2011. The couple had two children, the late Margaret Davis, nee
Corey, an actress, and Richard Corey, a painter. In 2011, the New
York Times reported that Corey was still performing, and also had
been soliciting change from drivers near his Manhattan residence,
and donating the money to Cuban children. His agent said that
Corey was not in financial distress, and a neighbor described it
as a performance. During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential
primaries, Corey endorsed Vermont United States Senator Bernie
Sanders for the nomination and presidency. Corey died at the age
of 102 on February 6, 2017, at his apartment in Manhattan with his
son, Richard, at his side. His remains were cremated, and the
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July 29, 1993: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland:
Treblinka Extermination Camp: John Demjanjuk: The Trial Of John
Demjanjuk: -- The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi
death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
On April 25, 1988, John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American
auto worker living in the Seven Hills, Ohio, accused of being
prisoner guard Ivan Marchenko and known at Treblinka extermination
camp as "Ivan The Terrible", and of being Ivan
Demjanjuk, a prisoner guard at the Sobibor and Majdanek death
camps, was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during
World War II. The Israeli Supreme Court's 405-page ruling included
the following: "The main issue of the indictment sheet filed
against the appellant was his identification as Ivan The Terrible,
an operator of the gas chambers in the extermination camp at
Treblinka... By virtue of this gnawing [new evidence indicating
mistaken identity]... we restrained ourselves from convicting the
appellant of the horrors of Treblinka. Ivan Demjanjuk has been
acquitted by us, because of doubt, of the terrible charges
attributed to Ivan The Terrible of Treblinka. This was the proper
course for judges who cannot examine the heart and mind, but have
only what their eyes see and read.... The facts proved the
appellant's participation in the extermination process. The matter
is closed - but not complete, the complete truth is not the
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July 29, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Peter
Jennings, Canadian-American journalist, news anchor, documentary
host, and author who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News
Tonight for 22 years from 1983 until his death from lung cancer
(d. August 7, 2005) is #born Peter Charles Archibald Ewart
Jennings in Toronto, Ontario. Despite dropping out of high school,
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM transformed himself into
one of American television's most prominent journalists. Jennings
started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age
of nine. He began his professional career with CJOH-TV in Ottawa
during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting
a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays. In 1965, ABC News
tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. His
inexperience was attacked by critics and others in television
news, making for a difficult first stint in the anchor chair.
Jennings became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from
the Middle East. He returned as one of World News Tonight's three
anchors in 1978, and was promoted to the role of sole anchor in
1983. Jennings was also known for his marathon coverage of
breaking news stories, staying on the air for 15 or more hours
straight to anchor the live broadcast of events such as the
outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, the Millennium celebrations in
2000, and the September 11 attacks in 2001. In addition to
anchoring, he was the host of many ABC News special reports and
moderated several American presidential debates. Jennings was
always fascinated with the United States and became a naturalized
United States citizen in 2003. Along with Tom Brokaw at NBC and
Dan Rather at CBS, Jennings formed part of the "Big Three"
news anchors who dominated American evening network news from the
early 1980s until his death of lung cancer in his New York
apartment at the age of 67, a death which closely followed the
retirements of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather. His fourth wife Kayce
Freed, two children, and sister were at his side when he died.
Just after 11:30 pm EDT that evening, Charles Gibson broke into
local news in the eastern U.S. and regular programming on ABC's
western affiliates to announce Jennings's death. The anchor's ABC
colleagues, including Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, and Ted
Koppel, shared their thoughts on Jennings's death. The next
morning, Brokaw and Rather fondly remembered their former rival on
the morning news shows. "Peter, of the three of us, was our
prince," said Brokaw on Today. "He seemed so timeless.
He had such elan and style." Canada's television networks led
off their morning news shows with the news of Jennings's death and
had remembrances from their "big three" anchors, Peter
Mansbridge at the CBC, Lloyd Robertson at CTV, and Kevin Newman
(himself a former colleague of Jennings at ABC) at Global.
American President George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin offered statements of condolence to the press. On August
10, 2005, ABC aired a two-hour special, Peter Jennings: Reporter,
with archival clips of his reports and interviews with colleagues
and friends. The special drew more than nine million viewers, and
was the most watched television program of the night. For the week
of his death, World News Tonight placed number one in the ratings
race for the first time since June 2004. Jennings's widow, Kayce
Freed, and family held a private service in New York. Jennings's
body was cremated and his ashes split in half. Half of his ashes
remained in his home on Long Island and the other half was placed
in his summer home in the Gatineau Hills, near Ottawa. The 57th
Primetime Emmy Awards on September 18, 2005, included a tribute to
Jennings by Brokaw and Rather. A public memorial service for
Jennings was held two days later at Carnegie Hall. Notable
journalists, political leaders, and other friends of Jennings
attended. Jennings left a 50M USD estate: half went to Freed, and
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July 29, 615: The Maya: The History Of
The Maya: Royal Accessions: Successions To The Throne Of Palenque:
-- K'inich Janaab Pakal I, also known as Pacal or Pacal the Great
(March 24, 603 - August 29, 683), ascends the throne of the Maya
city-state of Palenque as the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian
Mesoamerican Ajaw (Mayan: variously rendered as "leader",
"ruler", "lord", "king", or "queen",
depending on the individual) at the age of 12, ruling until his
death. Pakal reigned 68 years, the fifth-longest verified regnal
period of any sovereign monarch in history, the longest in world
history for more than a millennium, and still the longest of any
residing monarch in the history of the Americas. During his reign,
Pakal was responsible for the construction or extension of some of
Palenque's most notable surviving inscriptions and monumental
architecture. Pakal is perhaps best known in popular culture for
his depiction on the carved lid of his sarcophagus, which has been
the subject of ancient astronaut speculations since its appearance
in Erich von Daniken's 1968 best-seller Chariots of the Gods? Von
Daniken reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid (though
incorrectly labelling it as being from Copan) and compared Pakal's
pose to that of Project Mercury astronauts in the 1960s; he
interpreted drawings underneath Pakal as rockets, and offered the
sarcophagus lid as possible evidence of an extraterrestrial
influence on the ancient Maya. This interpretation has been
denounced by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians of
the Maya, who point out that von Daniken's claim relies solely
upon visual inspection, without paying heed to the broader
archaeological context nor additional research on Classic Maya
artistic conventions, symbolism, cosmology, and written history.
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July 29, 1567: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): The Scottish Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Scotland): The Irish Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Ireland): Coronations: -- The
Coronation Of James VI: The infant James VI, son of Mary, Queen Of
Scots (1542-1587) and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany
(1546-1567), is crowned King of Scotland by Adam Bothwell, Bishop
of Orkney, in the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, Scotland.
King James VI And I, King Of Scotland as James VI from July 24,
1567 and King Of England and Ireland as James I from the union of
the Scottish and English crowns on March 24 1603 until his death
(June 19, 1566 - March 27, 1625) was born James Charles Stuart in
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, the only son of Mary, Queen
Of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. As
the eldest son and heir apparent of the monarch, James
automatically became Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward
of Scotland, Both Mary and Darnley were great-grandchildren of
Henry VII of England through Margaret Tudor, the older sister of
Henry VIII, thus James as a great-great-grandson of Henry VII,
King Of England and Lord of Ireland, was a potential successor to
all three thrones. Mary's rule over Scotland was insecure, and she
and her husband, being Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by
Protestant noblemen. During Mary's and Darnley's difficult
marriage, Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and
conspired in the murder of the queen's private secretary, David
Rizzio, just three months before James's birth. Although James
wanted to bring about a closer union between the kingdoms of
Scotland and England, they remained individual sovereign states,
with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, both ruled by
James in personal union. He succeeded to the Scottish throne at
the age of thirteen months, after his mother was compelled to
abdicate in his favour. Four different regents governed during his
minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain
full control of his government until 1583. In 1603, he succeeded
Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, who
died childless. He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22
years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death in
1625. After the Union Of The Crowns, he based himself in England
(the largest of the three realms) from 1603, returning to Scotland
only once, in 1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain
and Ireland". He was a major advocate of a single parliament
for England and Scotland. In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster
and English colonisation of the Americas began. At 57 years and
246 days, James's reign in Scotland was the longest of any
Scottish monarch. He achieved most of his aims in Scotland but
faced great difficulties in England, including the Gunpowder Plot
in 1605 and repeated conflicts with the English Parliament. Under
James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and
drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John
Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing
literary culture. James himself was a prolific writer, authoring
works such as Daemonologie (1597) (a study on demonology and the
methods demons used to bother troubled men, a book which endorses
the practice of witch hunting), The True Law of Free Monarchies
(1598), and Basilikon Doron (1599). He sponsored the translation
of the Bible into English later named after him, the Authorized
King James Version, and the 1604 revision of the Book of Common
Prayer. Anthony Weldon claimed that James had been termed "the
wisest fool in Christendom", an epithet associated with his
character ever since. Since the latter half of the 20th century,
historians have tended to revise James's reputation and treat him
as a serious and thoughtful monarch. He was strongly committed to
a peace policy, and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars,
especially the Thirty Years' War that devastated much of Central
Europe. He tried but failed to prevent the rise of hawkish
elements in the English Parliament who wanted war with Spain.
James VI And I died at Theobalds House in Hertfordshire, England
during a violent attack of dysentery, aged 58. He was succeeded by
his second son, Charles I. James's funeral on May 7 was a
magnificent but disorderly affair. Bishop John Williams of Lincoln
preached the sermon, observing, "King Solomon died in Peace,
when he had lived about sixty years ... and so you know did King
James". The sermon was later printed as Great Britain's
Salomon [sic]. James is buried in Westminster Abbey. The position
of the tomb was lost for many years until his lead coffin was
found in the Henry VII vault, during an excavation in the 19th
century. ========= July 29, 1565: The Scottish Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Scotland): Royal Weddings: -- The
widowed Mary, Queen Of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley,
Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Their son
would be crowned King Of Scotland two years later on the same
date. ========= Mary, Queen Of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or
Mary I, Queen Of Scotland from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567
(December 8, 1542 - February 8, 1587) was born at Linlithgow
Palace, Scotland, to King James V and his French second wife, Mary
of Guise. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of
Scotland, she was six days old when her father died and she
acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France
while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the
Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended the French throne as King
Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly became queen consort of
France, until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary returned
to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561. Four years
later, she married her first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley,
but their union was unhappy. In February 1567, his residence was
destroyed by an explosion, and Darnley was found murdered in the
garden. James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was generally
believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but he was
acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following month he
married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was
imprisoned in on an island in Loch Leven in the Perth and Kinross
local authority area of Scotland. On July 24, 1567, she was forced
to abdicate in favour of James VI, her one-year-old son by
Darnley. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she
fled southwards seeking the protection of her first cousin once
removed, Queen Elizabeth I Of England. Mary had previously claimed
Elizabeth's throne as her own and was considered the legitimate
sovereign of England by many English Catholics, including
participants in a rebellion known as the Rising of the North.
Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various
castles and manor houses in the interior of England. After
eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was found guilty of
plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586. She was beheaded the
following year. ========= Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (c. 1546 -
February 10, 1567), was an English nobleman who was the second
husband of Mary, Queen Of Scots, and the father of James VI of
Scotland and I of England. Through his parents, he had claims to
both the Scottish and English thrones, and from his marriage in
1565 he was king consort of Scotland. Many contemporary narratives
describing his life and death refer to him as simply Lord Darnley,
his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox. Less than a
year after the birth of his son, Darnley was murdered at Kirk o'
Field, apparently smothered. Suspicion quickly fell on James
Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, and his supporters, notably
Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, whose shoes were found at
the scene, and on Mary herself. Bothwell had long been suspected
of having designs on the throne, and his close relationship with
the queen gave rise to rumours they were sexually intimate. This
was viewed as a motive for Bothwell to have Darnley murdered, with
help from some of the nobility and seemingly with royal approval.
Mary had been looking at options for removing Darnley, and had
discussed ideas at Craigmillar Castle in November 1566, though her
ideas were for divorce. The problem was the risk of making her son
illegitimate. Soon after Darnley's death, Bothwell and Mary left
Edinburgh together. There are two points of view about the
circumstances: in the first, Bothwell kidnapped the queen, took
her to Dunbar Castle, and raped her. In the second, Mary was a
willing participant in the kidnapping, and the story of rape was a
fabrication, so her honour and reputation were not ruined by her
marriage to a man widely suspected of murder. Mary later
miscarried twins by Bothwell while a prisoner at Lochleven Castle.
A soldier under the pay of Bothwell, Captain William Blackadder of
the Clan Blackadder, was one of the first non-participants to
happen upon the scene, and for that reason was treated as a
suspect. He was convicted and executed by being hanged, drawn and
quartered before each of his limbs was nailed to the gates of a
different Scottish town. Bothwell was put on trial in Edinburgh
and found not guilty. Suspicions that Mary colluded with
conspirators in her husband's death or that she took no action to
prevent his death led to the loss of her supporters and the loss
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July 29, 1981: The History Of The United
Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The
United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal Weddings: The Wedding
Of Prince Charles And Lady Diana Spencer: -- A worldwide
television audience estimeated at 760 million people watch the
wedding of Charles, Prince Of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St
Paul's Cathedral in London. The groom was the heir to the British
throne, and the bride was a member of the Spencer family. The
ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. The
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral Alan Webster presided at the service,
and the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie conducted the
marriage. Notable figures in attendance included many members of
other royal families, republican heads of state, and members of
the bride's and groom's families. After the ceremony, the couple
made the traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham
Palace. The United Kingdom had a national holiday on that day to
mark the wedding. The ceremony featured many ceremonial aspects,
including use of the state carriages and roles for the Foot Guards
and Household Cavalry. Their marriage was widely billed as a
"fairytale wedding" and the "wedding of the
century". Events were held around the Commonwealth to mark
the wedding. Many street parties were held throughout the United
Kingdom to celebrate the occasion. The couple separated in 1992
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July 29, 1864: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): American Spies:
American Civil War Spies: Confederate Spies (Confederate States Of
America Spies): -- Belle Boyd, dubbed The Cleopatra Of The
Secession, Siren Of The Shenandoah, and later The Confederate Mata
Hari, Confederate spy, is arrested by Union troops and brought to
the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. the next day. Boyd had
been arrested at least six times before but somehow evaded
incarceration... By late July 1862, detective Allan Pinkerton had
assigned three men to work on her case, and she was finally
captured by Union officials after her lover gave her up. An
inquiry was held on August 7, 1862, concerning violations of
orders that Boyd be kept in close custody. She was held for a
month before being released on August 29, 1862, when she was
exchanged at Fort Monroe. She was arrested again in June 1863, but
was released after contracting typhoid fever. Belle Boyd (May 9,
1844 - June 11, 1900) was born Maria Isabella Boyd in Martinsburg,
Virginia (now part of West Virginia). She conducted her spy
operations from her father's hotel in Front Royal, Virginia, and
provided valuable information to Confederate General Stonewall
Jackson in 1862. Boyd's espionage career began by chance.
According to her 1866 account, a band of Union army soldiers heard
that she had Confederate flags in her room on July 4, 1861, and
they came to investigate. They hung a Union flag outside her home.
Then one of the men cursed at her mother, which enraged Boyd. She
pulled out a pistol and shot the man, who died some hours later. A
board of inquiry exonerated her of murder, but sentries were
posted around the house and officers kept close track of her
activities. She profited from this enforced familiarity, charming
at least one of the officers whom she named in her memoir as
Captain Daniel Keily... She wrote in her memoir that she was
indebted to Keily "for some very remarkable effusions, some
withered flowers, and a great deal of important information."
She conveyed those secrets to Confederate officers via her slave
Eliza Hopewell, who carried them in a hollowed-out watch case.
Boyd was caught on her first attempt at spying and told that she
could be sentenced to death. General James Shields and his staff
gathered in the parlor of the local hotel in mid-May 1862. Boyd
hid in the closet in the room, eavesdropping through a knothole
that she enlarged in the door. She learned that Shields had been
ordered east from Front Royal, Virginia. That night, she rode
through Union lines, using false papers to bluff her way past the
sentries, and reported the news to Colonel Turner Ashby, who was
scouting for the Confederates. She then returned to town. When the
Confederates advanced on Front Royal on May 23, Boyd ran to greet
Stonewall Jackson's men, avoiding enemy fire that put bullet holes
in her skirt, as according to her memoir. She urged an officer to
inform Jackson that "the Yankee force is very small [...]
Tell him to charge right down and he will catch them all."
Jackson did and wrote a note of gratitude to her: "I thank
you, for myself and for the army, for the immense service that you
have rendered your country today." For her contributions, she
was awarded the Southern Cross of Honor. Jackson also gave her
captain and honorary aide-de-camp positions. In March 1864, Boyd
attempted to travel to England, but she was intercepted by a Union
blockade and sent to Canada where she met Union naval officer
Samuel Wylde Hardinge. The two married in England. and had a
daughter, Grace. Boyd became an actress in England after her
husband's death to support her daughter. Following the death of
her husband in 1866, she and her daughter returned to the United
States. Boyd assumed the stage name Nina Benjamin to perform in
several cities, eventually ending up in New Orleans where she
married John Swainston Hammond in March 1869, a former British
Army officer who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War.
They had two sons and two daughters; their first son died as an
infant. Boyd divorced Hammond in 1884 and married Nathaniel Rue
High in 1885. She subsequently began touring the country giving
dramatic lectures of her life as a Civil War spy. Boyd published a
highly fictionalized narrative of her war experiences in the
two-volume Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison. She died of a heart
attack in Kilbourn City, Wisconsin at age 56. She is buried in the
Spring Grove Cemetery in Wisconsin Dells, with members of the
Grand Army Of The Republic as her pallbearers. For years, her
grave simply read: "BELLE BOYD | CONFEDERATE SPY | BORN IN
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July 29, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Clara Bow,
nicknamed "The 'It' Girl". American actress, film star,
sex symbol and beauty who rose to stardom in silent film during
the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies"
after 1927 (d. September 27, 1965) is #born Clara Gordon Bow in
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn at 697 Bergen Street in a bleak,
sparsely furnished room above a dilapidated Baptist Church. Her
appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global
fame and the nickname "The 'It' Girl". Bow came to
personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex
symbol. Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including
hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was
named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office
draw in 1927 and 1930. Her presence in a motion picture was said
to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a "safe
return". At the apex of her stardom, she received more than
45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929). Two years
after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and
became a rancher in Nevada. Her final film, Hoop-La, was released
in 1933. In September 1965, Bow died at the aged 60 in Culver
City, California of a heart attack caused by atherosclerosis. She
was interred in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Heritage at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Her
pallbearers were Harry Richman, Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Maxie
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July 29, 1848: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Revolutions Of 1848 (The Springtime Of The Peoples, The Springtime
Of Nations): Ireland: Irish History: Famines: Famines In Ireland:
The Great Hunger In Ireland (1845-1852) (The Irish Potato Famine,
The Great Famine, The Great Famine Of Ireland, The Great Hunger
[Irish: an Gorta Mor], An Drochshaol [Irish: "Tthe Bad Life",
"The Hard Times"]: Irish Nationalism: The Young Ireland
Rebellion (The Young Irelander Rebellion, The Tipperary Revolt):
-- An unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put
down by police in Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom.
The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist
uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider
Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on
July 29, 1848 at Farranrory, a small settlement about 4.3 km
north-northeast of the village of Ballingarry, South Tipperary.
After being chased by a force of Young Irelanders and their
supporters, an Irish Constabulary unit took refuge in a house and
held those inside as hostages. A several-hour gunfight followed,
but the rebels fled after a large group of police reinforcements
arrived. It is sometimes called the Tipperary Revolt, Famine
Rebellion (since it took place during the Great Irish Famine), or
the Battle of Ballingarry. The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mor),
the Great Hunger, or mainly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato
Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland
from 1845 to 1849. With the most severely affected areas in the
west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant,
the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as An Drochshaol,
loosely translated as the "hard times" (or literally,
"The Bad Life"). The worst year of the period was 1847,
known as "Black '47". During the famine, about one
million people died and a million more emigrated, causing
Ireland's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. The proximate
cause of the famine was a natural event, a potato blight, which
infected potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, also
causing some 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influencing much
of the unrest in the widespread European Revolutions of 1848. From
1846, the impact of the blight was exacerbated by the Whig
government's economic policy of laissez-faire capitalism.
Longer-term causes include the system of absentee landlordism, and
single-crop dependence. The famine was a watershed in the history
of Ireland, which from 1801 to 1922 was ruled directly by
Westminster as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland. The famine and its effects permanently changed the
island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing
an estimated two million refugees and spurring a century-long
population decline. For both the native Irish and those in the
resulting diaspora, the famine entered folk memory. The strained
relations between many Irish and their government soured further
because of the famine, heightening ethnic and sectarian tensions
and boosting Irish nationalism and republicanism in Ireland and
among Irish emigrants in the United States and elsewhere. The
potato blight returned to Europe in 1879, but by that point the
Land War, described as one of the largest agrarian movements to
take place in 19th-century Europe, had begun in Ireland. The
movement, organized by the Land League, continued the political
campaign for the Three Fs, issued in 1850 by the Tenant Right
League during the Great Famine. When the potato blight returned in
the 1879 famine the League boycotted "notorious landlords"
and its members physically blocked evictions of farmers; the
consequent reduction in homelessness and house demolition resulted
in a drastic reduction in the number of deaths.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1856: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert
Schumann, German composer and influential music critic, widely
regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era (b.
June 8, 1810) #dies in Bonn, Rhine Province, Prussia, aged 46,
most likely caused by syphilis. He is buried in the Alter Friedhof
in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His medical records from
this illness were released in 1991, and suggest a "progressive
paralysis", a term used for neurosyphilis at the time,
although a diagnostic test for the Treponema pallidum syphilis
bacterium did not become available until 1906. These records and
his reported symptoms have contributed to a modern view is that he
did indeed die from syphilis, which he could have contracted
during his student days, and which could have remained latent
during most of his marriage. According to studies by the
musicologist and literary scholar Eric Sams, Schumann's symptoms
during his terminal illness and death appear consistent with those
of mercury poisoning; mercury was a common treatment for syphilis
and other conditions. Another possibility is that his neurological
problems were a result of an intracranial mass. A report by
Janisch and Nauhaus on Schumann's autopsy indicates that he had a
"gelatinous" tumor at the base of the brain; it may have
represented a colloid cyst, a craniopharyngioma, a chordoma, or a
chordoid meningioma. In particular, meningiomas are known to
produce musical auditory hallucinations such as Schumann reported;
Schumann heard a persistent A-note at the end of his life, which
may have been a form of tinnitus, or perhaps an auditory
hallucination caused by meningioma or to his major depressive
episode. At times, he had musical hallucinations that were longer
than just the single A, but his diaries include comments about
hearing the annoying single note. Schumann suffered from a mental
disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic
depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with
phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly also delusional ideas of
being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. Diagnosed with
"psychotic melancholia", Schumann's symptoms increased
in late February 1854, with angelic visions sometimes being
replaced by demonic ones. He warned his wife Clara that he feared
he might do her harm. On February 27, he attempted suicide by
throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River (his elder
sister Emilie had died by suicide in 1825, possibly by drowning
herself). Rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken
to an asylum for the insane. He entered Dr. Franz Richarz's
sanatorium in Endenich, a quarter of Bonn, and remained there
until he died. During his confinement, he was not allowed to see
Clara, although Brahms was free to visit him. Clara finally
visited him two days before his death. He appeared to recognize
her, but was able to speak only a few words. After Robert's death,
Clara continued her career as a concert pianist, which supported
the family. From mid-career on, she mainly performed music by
leading composers. A hired cook and housekeeper tended to the
children while she traveled. In 1856, she first visited England.
The critics received Robert's music coolly, with Henry Chorley
being particularly harsh. She returned to London in 1865 and made
regular appearances there in later years, often performing chamber
music with the violinist Joseph Joachim and others. She became the
authoritative editor of her husband's works for Breitkopf &
Hartel. It was rumoured that she and Brahms destroyed many of
Schumann's later works, which they thought were tainted by his
madness, but only the Five Pieces for Cello and Piano are known to
have been destroyed. Most of Schumann's late works, particularly
the Violin Concerto, the Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra and the
Violin Sonata No. 3, all from 1853, have entered the repertoire.
Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony
(today Central Germany). Schumann left the study of law, intending
to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by
his teacher Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, that he could
become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this
dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the
piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra;
many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; one
opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such
as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and
the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about
music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (New
Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly
founded. In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter
Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and
acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and
Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert
career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage,
formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert Moses,
dominant American urban planner and public official of the New
York metropolitan area whose grand-scale infrastructure projects
and philosophy of urban development influenced a generation of
engineers, architects, and urban planners across America, designer
of the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway,
organizer of the 1964 New York World's Fair (b. December 18, 1888)
#dies of heart disease at the age of 92 at Good Samaritan Hospital
in West Islip, New York. He was interred in a crypt in an outdoor
community mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York
City following services at St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
in Bay Shore, New York. Robert Moses was born in New Haven,
Connecticut to German Jewish parents; Moses was raised in a
secularist manner inspired by the Ethical Culture movement of the
late 19th century, and later converted to Christianity. Despite
never being elected to any office, Moses is regarded as one of the
most powerful individuals in the history of the New York City and
New York State governments. Moses held various positions
throughout his more than forty-year long career, holding up to 12
titles simultaneously, including New York City Parks Commissioner
and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission. He created
and led numerous semi-autonomous public authorities, through which
he controlled millions of dollars in revenue and directly issued
bonds to fund new ventures with little outside input or oversight
(having worked closely with New York Governor Al Smith early in
his career, Moses became expert in writing laws and navigating and
manipulating the inner workings of state government). Moses's
projects transformed the New York area and revolutionized the way
cities in the U.S. were designed and built. As Long Island State
Park Commissioner, Moses oversaw the construction of Jones Beach
State Park, the most visited public beach in the United States,
and was the primary architect of the New York State Parkway
System. As head of the Triborough Bridge Authority, Moses had
near-complete control over bridges and tunnels in New York City as
well as the tolls collected from them, and built, among others,
the Triborough Bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, and the Throgs
Neck Bridge, as well as several major highways. These roadways and
bridges, alongside urban renewal efforts that saw the destruction
of huge swaths of tenement housing and their replacement with
large public housing projects, transformed the physical fabric of
New York and inspired other cities to undertake similar
development endeavors. Although he was well-regarded throughout
most of his career, Moses's reputation was damaged with the
publication of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The
Power Broker (1974). Casting doubt on the supposed benefits of
many of Moses's projects, The Power Broker painted a picture of
Moses as a power-hungry and vindictive man who was not above
questionable ethics and wielded excessive power. Caro's book
further cast Moses as racist, highlighting the damage to black and
other minority communities inflicted by many of Moses's urban
renewal and highway construction projects. In large part because
of The Power Broker, Moses is today considered a controversial
figure in the history of New York City.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1983: #DOTD: #RIP: Raymond
Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright, known for his
commanding, stage-trained voice, the leading Canadian actor of his
time, and grand scion of the founder of the Massey-Harris Tractor
Company (b. August 30, 1896) #dies of pneumonia in Los Angeles,
California, a month before he would have turned 87. His death came
on the same day as that of David Niven, with whom he had
co-starred in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter of Life and
Death. Massey is buried in New Haven, Connecticut's Beaverdale
Memorial Park. Raymond Massey was born Raymond Hart Massey in
Toronto, Ontario, the son of Anna (nee Vincent), who was
American-born, and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the
Massey-Harris Tractor Company. He was the grandson of businessman
Hart Massey and great-grandson of founder Daniel Massey. Raymond
Massey appeared in many high-profile films such as The Scarlet
Pimpernel, Things To Come, Fire Over England, The Prisonder of
Zenda, Sante Fe Trail, Desperate Journey, God Is My Co-Pilot,
Mourning Becomes Electra, The Fountainhead, Chain Lightning, East
of Eden, Seven Angry Men, The Naked And The Dead. For his lead
role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was also well known for
playing Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare
(1961-1966). His high-profile estrangement and divorce from his
second wife Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon's
and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib (1949), starring
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey married the
lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his
then former wife, Allen, married the opposing lawyer, William
Dwight Whitney.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Fred Waring,
nicknamed "America's Singing Master" and "The Man
Who Taught America How To Sing", popular American musician,
singer, bandleader, radio and television personality, promoter,
financial backer and eponym of the Waring Blendor, the first
modern electric blender on the market (b. June 9, 1900) #dies of a
stroke at his summer home in State College, Pennsylvania. after
videotaping a concert with his ensemble and completing his annual
summer choral workshop, aged 84; he is buried at Shawnee
Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Shawnee On Delaware, Pennsylvania.
He conducted many such workshops at Penn State in his later years,
and in 1984, designated Penn State to house his collection of
archives and memorabilia. He also served his alma mater as a
trustee and was named a distinguished alumnus of the university.
Fred Waring was born Fredrick Malcolm Waring in Tyrone,
Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1900, to Jesse Calderwood and Frank
Waring. During his teen years, Waring, his brother Tom, and their
friend Poley McClintock founded the Waring-McClintock Snap
Orchestra, which evolved into Fred Waring's Banjo Orchestra. The
band often played at fraternity parties, proms, and dances, and
achieved local success. Waring attended Penn State University,
where he studied architectural engineering. He aspired to be in
the Penn State Glee Club, but he was rejected with every audition.
His Banjo Orchestra became so successful that he decided to
abandon his education to tour with the band, which eventually
became known as Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians. From 1923
until late 1932, "Waring's Pennsylvanians" were among
Victor Records' best-selling bands. In late 1932, Waring abruptly
quit recording, although his band continued to perform on radio.
In 1933, "You Gotta Be a Football Hero" was performed on
radio to great acclaim. His 1930 recording of "Love for Sale"
by Cole Porter is one of the only period versions of this popular
song. The Fred Waring Show was heard on radio in various forms
from 1933 to 1957. Adding a men's singing group to his ensemble,
he recruited Robert Shaw, recently out of the Pomona College glee
club, to train his singers. Shaw later founded the Robert Shaw
Chorale and directed the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
Pembroke Davenport (1911-85) was Waring's pianist and arranger.
During World War II, Waring and his ensemble appeared at war bond
rallies and entertained the troops at training camps. He composed
and performed dozens of patriotic songs, his most famous being "My
America". In 1943, he acquired the Buckwood Inn in Shawnee on
Delaware, Pennsylvania, and renamed the resort the Shawnee Inn. To
promote the inn, he centered his musical activities at the inn
itself. He created, rehearsed, and broadcast his radio programs
from the stage of Shawnee's Worthington Hall throughout the 1950s.
During the 1940s and early 1950s, Waring and His Pennsylvanians
produced a string of hits, selling millions of records. A few of
his many choral hits include "Sleep", "Battle Hymn
of the Republic", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes",
"Button Up Your Overcoat", "White Christmas",
"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor", and "Dancing in
the Dark". The song, "Breezin' Along with the Breeze"
was used as a signature tune by Fred Waring. In 1947, Waring
organized the Fred Waring Choral Workshop at his Pennsylvania
headquarters in the old Castle Inn in Delaware Water Gap,
Pennsylvania, which was also the home of Shawnee Press, the music
publisher which he founded. At these sessions, musicians learned
to sing with precision, sensitivity, and enthusiasm. When these
vocalists returned home and shared what they had learned with
fellow musicians, Waring's approach to choral singing spread
throughout the nation. Waring expanded into television with The
Fred Waring Show, which ran on CBS Television from June 20, 1948,
to May 30, 1954, and received several awards for Best Musical
Program. (The show was 60 minutes long until January 1952, and 30
minutes thereafter.) In the 1960s and 1970s, popular musical
tastes turned from choral music, but Waring changed with the
times, introducing his Young Pennsylvanians, a group of
fresh-faced, long-haired, bell-bottomed performers who sang old
favorites and choral arrangements of contemporary songs. In this
way he continued as a popular touring attraction, logging some
40,000 miles a year. In the 1930s, inventor Frederick Jacob Osius
went to Waring for financial backing for an electric blender he
had patented. The Osius patent (#2,109,501) was filed March 13,
1937, and awarded March 1, 1938. Some 25K USD later, the
Waring-owned Miracle Mixer was introduced to the public at the
National Restaurant Show in Chicago retailing for 29.75 USD. In
1938, Fred Waring renamed his Miracle Mixer Corporation as the
Waring Corporation, and the mixer's name was changed to the Waring
Blendor (the "o" in blendor giving it a slight
distinction from "blender"). The Waring Blendor became
an important tool in hospitals for the implementation of specific
diets, as well as a vital scientific research device. Jonas Salk
used it while developing his polio vaccine. In 1954, the millionth
Waring Blendor was sold. In 1983, the 83-year-old Waring was
awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest honor
for a civilian. In Long Beach, California, Fred Waring Drive is
named for him. Another Fred Waring Drive is a major arterial road
in the Palm Desert-Indio area of Southern California where many
major roads are named for post-World War II-era entertainers. The
Waring Golf Course north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was named
after Waring, and he had an ownership interest in it. Waring was
the Shepherd (president) of The Lambs, America's oldest social
club for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the theatre
locarted in New York City, from 1939-1942. In 1997, a Golden Palm
Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.
Waring was a cartoon and comic strip collector. A Penn State
meeting room by the West Wing restaurant has dozens of cartoons
drawn by artists such as Al Hirschfeld in Waring's honor. From
1943 to 1974, Waring owned the Shawnee Inn and Country Club, a
golf resort located at Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania near
Stroudsburg. In 1948, two years after the National Cartoonists
Society was formed, Waring invited members of that organization to
spend a day at the Shawnee Inn. It became an annual event, held
each June for the next 25 years, resulting in a huge collection of
artwork created for Waring by the cartoonists, including many
drawn on Shawnee Inn stationery. The Fred Waring Collection has
more than 600 cartoon originals, including over 50 of the
laminated table tops.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP! Pat
McCormick, American actor and comedy writer known for playing Big
Enos Burdette in Smokey And The Bandit and its two sequels (b.
June 30, 1927) #dies aged 78 at the Motion Picture and Television
Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where he
spent the last seven years of his life. He was interred in Forest
Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. Pat McCormick was born in
Lakewood, Ohio. He wrote for a number of performers such as Red
Skelton, Phyllis Diller, Johnny Carson, Jonathan Winters, Jack
Paar and Danny Kaye, as well as for television shows including Get
Smart and Candid Camera. He was also a member of the I've Got a
Secret production staff in the early 1960s. McCormick had a
distinctive appearance being 6'7" tall, weighing 250 lbs and
having a walrus mustache. McCormick was a 1945 athlete graduate of
Rocky River High School and served in the United States Army
during World War II. He then enrolled at Harvard University as a
freshman in the autumn of 1947 where he played basketball that
year. He later dropped basketball to concentrate on track
(hurdles). He dropped out of Harvard Law School for a career in
advertising, but abandoned that career as well when he started
writing jokes for television and standup comedians. McCormick was
both the announcer and straight man for Don Rickles on The Don
Rickles Show in 1968. He was a regular on The New Bill Cosby Show
in 1972. Behind the scenes, he was one of the lead writers on The
Tonight Show writing many of its most well-known lines. He wrote
the line "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally
has been canceled." As part of a skit on a Jonathan Winters
special McCormick, as a court jester, quipped to the
regally-attired Winters "Is that a scepter in your pocket, or
are you just happy to see me?" a quite risque line for early
1970s television. His first screen performance was in The Shaggy
D.A. in 1976. He played President Grover Cleveland in Robert
Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History
Lesson in the same year. In 1977, he appeared in Smokey and the
Bandit and appeared in the sequels in both 1980 and 1983,
alongside Paul Williams as wealthy con men Big and Little Enos
Burdette respectively. Pat appeared in the 1982 TV movie Rooster,
which also starred Williams. He appeared as the Ghost of Christmas
Present in a TV production in the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged in
1988, with his final appearance being in Ted & Venus. Living
in Palm Springs, California in 1996, McCormick retired in 1998
after being left partly paralyzed by a stroke. According to fellow
writer Mark Evanier, McCormick was driving to the Beverly Hilton
Hotel when he suffered a stroke and crashed his car into a
concrete wall. The vehicle caught fire, but a woman named Danielle
Villegas pulled him out and dragged him to safety before the car
exploded. McCormick was admitted to the Motion Picture and
Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills,
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Vladimir K.
Zworykin, sometimes called "The Father of Television,"
Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television
technology (b. July 30, 1889) #dies on a Thursday of natural
causes at the Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey,
one day short of his ninety-third birthday. His funeral was held
at the Princeton University Chapel on August 3 at 2:00 PM. The
service was presided over by Fr. John Turkevich, a Russian
Orthodox priest and Princeton faculty member. Mr. Zworykin was
cremated at the Ewing Crematory not too far from Princeton campus.
His ashes were scattered on Taunton Lake, in Medford, New Jersey,
where he resided. His name is inscribed together with his wife at
her grave at Princeton Cemetery. Vladimir K. Zworykin was born
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin into a family of a prosperous merchants in
Murom, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire. Zworykin invented a
television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray
tubes. He played a role in the practical development of television
from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes,
infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Tom Snyder,
American journalist, radio personality, television personality,
news anchor, and talk show host, best known for his late night
talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late
Late Show, on CBS in the 1990s, pioneer anchor of the prime time
NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a
one-minute capsule of news updates (b. May 12, 1936) #dies of
complications from leukemia in San Francisco, California at the
age of 71. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Snyder
was posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of
Philadelphia Hall of Fame in 2008. He was born Thomas James Snyder
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of
German, Cornish, and Irish descent. Snyder gained national fame as
the host of Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (more commonly known as The
Tomorrow Show), which aired late nights after The Tonight Show on
NBC from 1973 to 1982. It was a talk show unlike the usual
late-night fare, with Snyder, cigarette in hand, alternating
between asking hard-hitting questions and offering personal
observations that made the interview seem more like a
conversation. Unique one-on-one exchanges were common to the
program, notably with John Lennon in 1975, John Lydon of PiL and
The Sex Pistols in 1980, Charles Manson in 1981, actor and writer
Sterling Hayden, author Harlan Ellison, and author and philosopher
Ayn Rand. A one-on-one program with David Brenner as the sole
guest revealed that Snyder and Brenner worked together on several
documentaries. In 1981, "Weird Al" Yankovic had his
first appearance on national TV performing Another One Rides the
Bus.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1991: Scandals: Banking
Scandals: Money Laundering: The Bank Of Credit And Commerce
International Scandal (The BCCI Scandal): -- After a series of
seizures in New York City, Luxembourg and Hong Kong, Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announces that a Manhattan
grand jury has indicted BCCI, Chairman Agha Hasan Abedi and CEO
Swaleh Naqvi on twelve counts of fraud, money laundering, and
larceny. Morgenthau, who had been investigating BCCI for over two
years, claimed jurisdiction because millions of dollars laundered
by the bank flowed through Manhattan. Also, Morgenthau cited
BCCI's secret ownership of First American Bankshares, which
operated a subsidiary in New York City. Morgenthau said that all
of BCCI's deposits had been fraudulently collected because the
bank misled depositors about its ownership structure and financial
condition. He described BCCI as "the largest bank fraud in
world financial history". The Bank Of Credit And Commerce
International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by
Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The Bank was registered
in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade
after opening, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and
assets in excess of 20B USD, making it the seventh largest private
bank in the world. BCCI came under the scrutiny of financial
regulators and intelligence agencies in the 1980s, due to concerns
that it was poorly regulated. Subsequent investigations revealed
that it was involved in massive money laundering and other
financial crimes, and had illegally gained the controlling
interest in the major American bank First American Bankshares.
BCCI became the focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991, and,
on July 5 of that year, customs and bank regulators in seven
countries raided and locked down records of its branch offices.
Investigators in the United States and the UK determined that BCCI
had been "set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory
review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions.
Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers were
sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was
to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale,
and to avoid detection". The liquidators, Deloitte &
Touche, filed a lawsuit against the bank's auditors, Price
Waterhouse and Ernst & Young, which was settled for 175M USD
in 1998. By 2013, Deloitte & Touche claimed to have recovered
about 75% of the creditors' lost money.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1955: #DOTD (Fictional):
Godfather Vito Corleone (b. December 7, 1891 (Fictional)) #dies of
a heart attack in his garden while playing with his grandson,
Michael's son Anthony. In the novel, his last words are, "Life
is so beautiful." He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, a Roman
Catholic cemetery located in Woodside, Queens, New York City, a
cemetery managed by the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, one
of the oldest and largest cemeteries in the United States. His
funeral was attended by many crime family members from across the
country. It was at this funeral that Vito's son and new Godfather,
Michael Corleone, discovered that it was Caporegime Salvatore
"Sal" Tessio, one of Don Vito Corleone's most trusted
friends, who was the traitor in the family Don Vito warned Don
Michael about, saying that whoever approached Michael about
setting up a meeting with Don Emilio Barzini of the Barzini crime
family (inspired by the Genovese crime family) was the traitor
within the Corleone crime family (a family that has drawn
comparisons with the real-life Genovese and Bonanno crime
families). Accordingly, as Tessio and Corleone family Consigliere
Tom Hagen were preparing to attend the summit, Corleone family
hitman and soldato Willie Cicci told Tessio that Michael was
coming in a separate car. Tessio was visibly upset, saying that it
threw off his "arrangements". Hagen said he couldn't
come along either, while Cicci and several of Clemenza's men
surrounded Tessio. Realizing that Michael had found out about his
treachery, Tessio asked Tom to tell Michael that it was "only
business" and he always liked him. Tessio then asked Tom if
he could get him off the hook for "the old times' sake".
Tom rejected his appeal. Willie Cicci and a few other men then
drove Tessio to Two Toms, Tessio's social club, where his
traitorous men were executed. Tessio, and his dead co-conspirators
were then brought to an abandoned gas station on Staten Island
where he was executed by his former protege Nick Geraci, while
Corleone hitman, security head and Caporegime Al Neri looked on.
His death was attributed to the Barzini family, since Staten
Island was their territory, which explained the death of Don
Barzini at the same time. Tessio's wife Lucille and his children
were provided for by the Corleones after his death. Vito Corleone
was born on the same date that 50 years later the Pearl Harbor
attack occurs, the same day his son and future Godfather Michael
Corleone enlists in the U.S. Marines. Vito Corleone (born Vito
Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The
Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film
trilogy. Vito is originally portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972
film The Godfather and later by Oreste Baldini as a boy and by
Robert De Niro as a young man in The Godfather Part II (1974). He
is an orphaned Sicilian immigrant who builds a Mafia empire. He
and his wife Carmela have four children: Santino ("Sonny"),
Frederico ("Fredo"), and Michael, and one daughter
Constanzia ("Connie"). Vito informally adopts Sonny's
friend, Tom Hagen, who becomes his lawyer and consigliere. Upon
Vito's death, Michael succeeds him as Don of the Corleone crime
family. Vito oversees a business founded on gambling, bootlegging,
prostitution, and union corruption, but he is known as a kind,
generous man who lives by a strict moral code of loyalty to
friends and, above all, family. He is also known as a
traditionalist who demands respect commensurate with his status;
even his closest friends refer to him as "Godfather" or
"Don Corleone" rather than "Vito". Vito
Corleone is based on a composite of mid-20th century New York
Mafia figures Carlo Gambino, Frank Costello, Joe Bonanno, and Joe
Profaci; he is also partly based on Philadelphia crime boss Angelo
Bruno.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1876: #BOTD: #HBD! Maria
Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and acting teacher, best
known in popular culture for playing the old Gypsy fortuneteller
in the horror films The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the
Wolf Man (1943) (d. December 3, 1949) is #born Maria Alekseyevna
Ouspenskaya in Tula, Russian Empire. She achieved success as a
stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman
in Hollywood films. She studied singing in Warsaw, Poland, and
acting in Moscow. She was a founding member of the First Studio, a
theatre studio of the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre. There she
was trained by Konstantin Stanislavsky and his assistant Leopold
Sulerzhitsky. The Moscow Art Theatre traveled widely throughout
Europe, and when it arrived in New York City in 1922, Ouspenskaya
decided to stay there. She performed regularly on Broadway over
the next decade. She taught acting at the American Laboratory
Theatre and in 1929, together with Richard Boleslawski, her
colleague from the Moscow Art Theatre, she founded the School of
Dramatic Art in New York City. One of Ouspenskaya's students at
the school during this period was Anne Baxter, then an unknown
teenager. Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent films
many years earlier, Ouspenskaya stayed away from Hollywood until
her school's financial problems forced her to look for ways to
repair her finances. According to ads from Popular Song magazine
in the 1930s, around this time Ouspenskaya also opened the Maria
Ouspenskaya School of Dance on Vine Street in Los Angeles. Her
pupils included Marge Champion, the model for Disney's Snow White.
In spite of her marked Russian accent, she did find work in
Hollywood, playing European characters of various national
origins. Her first Hollywood role was in Dodsworth (1936), which
brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress. Her onscreen appearance in that film was one of the
briefest ever to garner a nomination. She received a second Oscar
nomination for her role in Love Affair (1939). She portrayed
Maleva, an old Gypsy fortuneteller in the horror films The Wolf
Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). Other films
in which she appeared were: The Rains Came (1939), Waterloo Bridge
(1940), Beyond Tomorrow (1940), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), The
Mortal Storm (1940), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), and Kings
Row (1942). Maria Ouspenskaya died at the age of 73 several days
after suffering a stroke and receiving severe burns in a house
fire, which was reportedly caused when she fell asleep while
smoking a cigarette. She was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn
Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Today, July 29, 2026July 29, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Cass Elliot,
also known as Mama Cass, American singer and actress who is best
known for having been a member of The Mamas And The Papas (b.
September 19, 1941) #dies in her sleep of a heart attack at age 32
in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Place (later Curzon Square), Shepherd Market,
Mayfair, London, owned by Harry Nilsson. According to Keith
Simpson, who conducted her autopsy, there were no drugs in her
system.. Four years later, The Who's drummer Keith Moon died in
the same bedroom, also aged 32 years. At the time, and for decades
later, it was generally thought by the public she had died from
choking on a sandwich. Elliot's body was cremated at the Hollywood
Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her ashes were later
buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. In
1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame for her work with the Mamas and the Papas. Cass Elliot was
born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Maryland; all four of her
grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. After the group broke
up, Ellen Naomi Cohen released five solo albums. Elliot adopted
the name "Cass" in high school, possibly borrowing it
from actress Peggy Cass, according to Denny Doherty. She assumed
the surname "Elliot" some time later, in memory of a
friend who had died.
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