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Tuesday July 29, 2014 This is the 210th day of the year, with 155 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: lungs Human lungs have an estimated 300,000,000 alveoli (gas sacs), providing an adult with a total surface area equivalent to a tennis court.
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.
1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel between the UK and France.
2005 - Mount Palomar Observatory astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
Births 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician.
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, a German linguist who developed the Wellentheorie ("wave theory") of language development.
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.
1966 - Martina McBride(born Martina Mariea Schiff), an American country-pop music singer-songwriter.
Deaths 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter.
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy, assassinated by an anarchist (and succeeded by Victor Emmanuel).
1974 - Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen}, a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas.
1983 - David Niven, British stage and film actor.
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