Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 29, 2028

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2028-07-29T00:00:00
End: 2028-07-29T23:59:59

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The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force off the coast of Gravelines, France – 1588
The Pittsburgh Gazette became the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains – 1786
Annibale de Gasparis discovered asteroid 15 Eunomia – 1851
First successful transcontinental telephone call – 1914
Lightning caused a deadly fire in Cochrane and Matheson, Ontario – 1916
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – 1958
Schooner Bluenose II was donated to Nova Scotia – 1971
First Chicken Wing Day, Buffalo, New York – 1977
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married at St. Paul’s in London, England – 1981
Bill Mueller of the Boston Red Sox became the first baseball player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in one game – 2003
184-pound wahoo caught, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico – 2005
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook Los Angeles, California – 2008
A pair of Winston Churchill’s wartime dentures sold at auction for approximately $23,750 – 2010
Rare panda triplets born at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, China – 2014

Four inches of rain fell on Tucson, Arizona, causing thousands of dollars in damage – 1959
Barnet, Vermont, reported a morning low of 33 degrees F, with frost appearing on vegetation – 1987
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, had a low temperature of 42 degrees F – 1987
Greeley, Colorado, received 6 to 7.5 inches of rain in eight hours – 1989
Thermometers in Oymyakon, Eastern Siberia (considered one of the coldest places on Earth) recorded 90 degrees F in the evening – 2010
Moscow had a record temperature of 100 degrees F – 2010