Today in History - July 29 - Your Houston News
On this date: In 1588, the English attacked the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory. In 1914, transcontinental telephone service in the U. S. became operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco. In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader (“fuehrer“) of the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1948, Britain’s King George VI opened the Olympic Games in London. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford became the first U. S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland. In 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. In 1994, abortion opponent Paul Hill shot and killed Dr. John Bayard Britton and Britton’s bodyguard, James H. Barrett, outside the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Florida. John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Boston with a military salute and the declaration: “I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty. Source: www.yourhoustonnews.com
