Everyone knows what today is!

[msmoon]

Beware, for I am: Giddy

 

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On This Day: Saturday July 29, 2006

This is the 210th day of the year, with 155 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: elevator and escalators

An elevator is a car that moves in a vertical shaft to carry passengers or freight between the levels of a multi-story building. The passenger elevator was introduced in 1853. An escalator is a moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other places where there are many pedestrians. The name escalator was first applied to a moving stairway shown at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Holidays

• Feast day of St. Martha, Saints Beatrice and Simplicius, Saints Faustinus and Beatrice, St. Felix, antipope, St. William of Saint-Brieuc, St. Lupus of Troyes, and St. Olav, King of Norway.
• Faroe Islands: Olavsoka / Olav's Wake.
• Norway: Olsok Eve.

Events

• 1588 - The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
• 1914 - Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
• 1957 - Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.
• 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
• 1958 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
• 1981 - Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tuned in.
• 2006 - July 29th Sloths' Con!!!!
  

Births

• 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician.
• 1869 - Booth Tarkington, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
• 1883 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy (1922-1945).
• 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961).
• 1907 - Melvin Belli, American attorney, author.
• 1926 - Don Carter, American bowler.
• 1938 - Peter Jennings, American TV journalist.

Deaths

• 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter.
• 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy, assassinated by an anarchist (and succeeded by Victor Emmanuel).
• 1983 - David Niven, British stage and film actor.

 

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