Daily Calendar for Monday, July 30, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-07-30T00:00:00
End: 2029-07-30T23:59:59

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Lynn Fontanne (actress) – 1983
Lane Frost (bull rider) – 1989
Buffalo Bob Smith (actor and puppeteer, best known for Howdy Doody) – 1998
Sam Phillips (rock’n’roll pioneer, Sun Records founder, and the man who discovered Elvis and also launched the careers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King) – 2003
Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker) – 2007
Michelangelo Antonioni (director) – 2007
Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) – 2022
Paul Reubens (actor, best known for Pee-Wee Herman) – 2023

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was first to observe what we now know are Saturn’s rings – 1610
First legislative assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, convened at Jamestown, VA – 1619
Caspar Wistar began operation of the first successful glass factory in America, in Allowaystown, New Jersey – 1739
Malden Island was discovered – 1825
Hawaii’s first English-language newspaper published – 1836
New York Yacht Club founded – 1844
The Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era, opened – 1932
American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jovian moon Carme, initially called Jupiter XI. – 1938
Japanese warships sank the USS Indianapolis, killing over 800 seamen (WW II) – 1945
Elvis Presley made his debut performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, TN – 1954
Mister Roberts premiered – 1955
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs – 1965
Apollo 15 landed on the Moon – 1971
Jake, a 65-pound golden retriever, was the only non-human in the 10th annual 1.25-mile swim from Alcatraz island to the San Francisco shore. The 4-year-old dog swam across the water in just under 42 minutes, finishing 72nd out of the more than 500 swimmers. Organizers say it was the first known crossing by a dog – 2005
In Bethel, Maine, the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall) melted completely – 2008

During Tropical Storm Brenda, 4.5 inches of rain fell in 11 hours on New York City – 1960
107 degrees F in Portland, Oregon – 1965