July 29th
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- 1715
10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida by a hurricane View Post →
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- 1956
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in record 7,500 m of water
- 1973
Over $200,000 in cash stolen from Led Zeppelin at NY Hilton hotel
- 1773
First schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains built in Schoenbrunn, OH
- 1783
Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
- 1848
Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt against British rule put down
- 1988
FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
- 2013
€103 million of diamonds stolen from Carton Hotel, Cannes, France
- 2019
'Old Town Road' by Lil Nas X sets US chart record with 17 weeks at No. 1
- 1948
XIV Olympics open in London, UK after 12 year WWII hiatus
- 1940
John Sigmund completes a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River
- 2005
Astronomers discover a new planet (Xena) larger than Pluto
- 1958
NASA created
- 1921
Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
- 2015
Heatwave hits Japan causing over 700 deaths and thousands hospitalized
