A bit of July 29th history…
1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills 2 Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, NY setting stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for next 150 years
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders (pictured)
1951 - “Fellowship of the Ring”, 1st volume of “Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien is published
1958 - US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics ans Space Act (NASA) of 1958
1968 - Pope Paul VI declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
2019 - “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus gained record for longest running #1 single on US charts - 17 weeks
Today In History: July 29