Married in a grand ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in the presence of 2,650 guests, the In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I is shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who resided in America before returning to his homeland to murder the king. Some of the damaged ships foundered in the sea while others were driven onto the coast of Ireland and wrecked. He enacted a program On July 29, 1909, the newly formed General Motors Corporation (GM) acquires the country’s leading luxury automaker, the Cadillac Automobile Company, for $4.5 million. Its hopes of invasion crushed, the remnants of the Spanish Armada began a long and difficult journey back to Spain. The deadly fire on the USS Forrestal began with the accidental launch of a rocket. The English ships were easier to manoeuvre in the heavy waters of the North Sea. As the house band at the Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, they had built a large local following and strong industry buzz, and out on the road, they were fast becoming known as a Nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tune in to witness the marriage of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, to Lady Diana Spencer, a young English schoolteacher.
Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain’s so-called “In the late 1580s, English raids against Spanish commerce and Queen Elizabeth I’s support of the Dutch rebels in the Spanish Netherlands led King Philip II of Spain to plan the conquest of England. One The first 4,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. It had to return home by sailing round the north of Scotland and the west coast of Ireland, where many ships were sunk by storms.On 8 August, after the main danger was over, Elizabeth went to speak to the English troops at Tilbury.
This decisive battle prevented the Spanish from landing in England.Philip's 'invincible' Spanish fleet fled north, chased by the English fleet. She said, I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king... and think foul scorn that any Prince in Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm. On July 27, the Armada anchored in exposed position off Calais, France, and the Spanish army prepared to embark from Flanders. After eight hours of furious fighting, a change in wind direction prompted the Spanish to break off from the battle and retreat toward the North Sea. It was the ninth and final Olympic gold of his storied career. Delayed by storms that temporarily forced it back to Spain, the Armada did not reach the southern coast of England until July 19. It is said that when Drake was informed of the Armada’s approach, he replied that he had time to finish the game of bowls he was playing on Plymouth Hoe and time to defeat the Armada. Taylor and On July 29, 1996, track and field legend Carl Lewis wins his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the long jump. Cadillac was founded out of the ruins of automotive pioneer Henry Ford’s second failed company (his third The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space, on July 29, 1958. The panicked Spanish ships were forced to cut their anchors and sail out to sea to avoid catching fire. Lauria died and Valenti was seriously wounded in the first in a series of shootings by the serial killer, who Confederate spy Marie Isabella “Belle” Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.In the early hours of July 29, 1914, Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his first cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, begin a frantic exchange of telegrams regarding the newly erupted war in the Balkan region and the possibility of its escalation into a general European war. A devout Catholic, Mary, with her co-monarch and husband, Philip II of Spain, began to reassert Roman influence over church affairs. Frederick Carlton Lewis was born July 11, 1961, in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in a middle-class On July 29, 2000, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, one of Hollywood’s highest-profile couples, marry at the Malibu, California, estate of the producer Marcy Carsey (The Cosby Show). Pope Sixtus V gave his blessing to what was called “The Enterprise of England,” which he hoped would bring the Protestant isle back into the fold of Rome. Over time, it became increasingly aligned with the Protestant reformation taking place in Europe, especially during the reign of Henry's son, Edward VI. He was stationed in Plymouth. By the time the last of the surviving fleet reached Spain in October, half of the original Armada was lost and some 15,000 men had perished.Queen Elizabeth’s decisive defeat of the Invincible Armada made England a world-class power and introduced effective long-range weapons into naval warfare for the first time, ending the era of boarding and close-quarter fighting.On July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. A giant Spanish invasion fleet was completed by 1587, but Sir Francis Drake’s daring raid on the Armada’s supplies in the port of Cadiz delayed the Armada’s departure until May 1588.On May 19, the Invincible Armada set sail from Lisbon on a mission to secure control of the English Channel and transport a Spanish army to the British isle from Flanders. The fleet was under the command of the Duke of Medina-Sidonia and consisted of 130 ships carrying 2,500 guns, 8,000 seamen, and almost 20,000 soldiers. Hitler’s early years did not seem to predict his rise as a By the beginning of 1967, The Doors were well-established members of the Los Angeles music scene. During the Vietnam War, the USS Forrestal was often stationed off the coast The so-called “Son of Sam” pulls a gun from a paper bag and fires five shots at Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti of the Bronx while they are sitting in a car, talking.