This Day In History...

[rchurchward]

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[rchurchward]

July 29, 1958 - NASA Created

On this day in 1958, 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. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications.

Other significant events...
July 29, 1890 - Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37.
July 29, 1914 - Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
July 29, 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
July 29, 1959 - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union
July 29, 1981 - Marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer (Princess Diana).

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[OnePimpTiger]

I never understood the fascination with Diana...of course, there are a lot of people I don't understand the extreme fascination of, such as the Beatles, Michael Jackson, the Kennedys, or anyone like that really.

[rchurchward]

I never understood the fascination with Diana...of course, there are a lot of people I don't understand the extreme fascination of, such as the Beatles, Michael Jackson, the Kennedys, or anyone like that really.

I'm not really sure either, Darren. I was too young to really know of her popularity. The earliest I remember of her was her unfortunate death.

[FootballCardFreak]

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I was too young to even remember Princess Diana.

[angel0430]

what grabbed peoples attention to her was the fact that she was a princess but still was doing a lot for poor and sick people. Sort of like what Mother Theresa was doing and people were like....wiat she is a princess and she still touches people with terminal conditions and stuff like that. I am not like extreme fascinated with her but I really admired her

[rchurchward]

what grabbed peoples attention to her was the fact that she was a princess but still was doing a lot for poor and sick people. Sort of like what Mother Theresa was doing and people were like....wiat she is a princess and she still touches people with terminal conditions and stuff like that. I am not like extreme fascinated with her but I really admired her

Very interesting. Thanks for the information, Angel!

[angel0430]

No problem. She was really good at all this stuff.

[rchurchward]

July 29, 1619 - First Representative Assembly In America Convenes For The First Time

In Jamestown, Virginia, the House of Burgesses convenes for the first time, as the first representative assembly in the New World. This body holds it's legacy as being the location where, on several occasions, men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry began encouraging independence from England.

Other significant events...
July 29, 762 - Baghdad is founded.
July 29, 1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded.
July 29, 1792 - The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
July 29, 1956 - A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
July 29, 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
July 29, 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, never to be seen again.

[FootballCardFreak]

Wow, disappeared and never seen again...creepy.