Monday, July 29, 2013

This will be 210th day of the year and 155 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 22 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 22nd day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 29 Birthdays

Dag Hammarskjold
1905–61, Swedish statesman, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953–61).

Alexis de Tocqueville
writer (1805)

Booth Tarkington
author (1869)

Benito Mussolini
dictator (1883)

Nancy Landon Kassebaum
senator (1932)

Elizabeth Hanford Dole
public official (1936)

Peter Jennings
news anchor (1938)

Ken Burns
documentary filmmaker (1953)

July 2013

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14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 29 in History

1890

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

1958

President Eisenhower signed the congressional act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by Congress.

1968

In Humanae Vitae (of Human Life), Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial methods of birth control.

1981

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Lady Diana Spencer.

2003

Red sox switch hitter Bill Mueller became the first baseball player to hit grand slam home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.