Today in History for 29th July 2024

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Historical Events

1967 - The Doors' single "Light My Fire" hits #1 in the US
1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1990 - LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Beth Daniel wins her only major title by 1 stroke from fellow American Rosie Jones
1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis after she was stabbed in an on-court attack in 1993
2021 - Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wraps up the 100/200m double with OR 1:53.27 in the longer event at the Tokyo Olympic Games

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Famous Birthdays

1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996)
1933 - Robert Fuller, American actor (Laramie, Wagon Train), born in Troy, New York
1943 - Roz Kelly, American actress (Owl and Pussycat, Happy Days), born in Mt Vernon, New York
1957 - Fumio Kishida, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 2021-), born in Tokyo, Japan
1969 - Alison Dunlap, American cyclist (UCI Mountain Bike Cross Country World C'ship gold 2001), born in Denver, Colorado
1970 - John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer (pace bowler 1993)

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Famous Deaths

1886 - Adolf Muller Sr., Austrian composer of operettas, dies at 84
1958 - Charles O'Malley, American actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American inventor who developed the cathode ray tube for television, dies at 94
1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist film director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
2000 - Edgar Beck, English civil engineer (led firm Mowlem that reconstructed Downing St, built new London Bridge and NatWest Tower), dies at 89
2013 - Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian soccer striker (58 caps; El Nacional, Santos Laguna, América), dies from heart failure at 27

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