July 29 is

Lipstick Day

Lasagna Day

Global Tiger Day (*continue reading)

Talk in an Elevator Day

Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary

World Festivals & National Holidays

Bermuda – Somers Day

Faroe Islands – Saint Olav’s Day

USA –
Buffalo NY: Chicken Wing Day
Chicago IL: Lollapalooza
Waynesburg PA: Rain Day Festival

Wales –
Abergavenny: National Eisteddfod

Wallis and Futuna – Territory Day

On This Day in HISTORY

1565 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries husband #2, cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

1567 – One-year-old James VI crowned King of Scotland after Mary’s forced abdication

1588 – English fleet – and wind – defeat the Spanish Armada at Battle of Gravelines

1619 – First English legislative assembly in North America convened in Jamestown VA

1775 – Responding to General Washington’s call, U.S. Army Chaplains Corps established

1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

1848 – Unsuccessful Tipperary Revolt against British rule during Irish Potato Famine

1874 – Englishman Walter Copton Winfield gets U.S. patent for the lawn-tennis court

There’s MORE – For Clara Bow, Peter Paul & Mary, and the NCAA, click 

1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italy’s future fascist dictator, is born

1894 – Silent film’s “IT Girl” Clara Bow is born

1932 – The 10th modern-era Olympic Games opening ceremonies held in Los Angeles

1945 – USS Indianapolis torpedoed by Japanese submarine, nearly 900 crewmen die

1957 – Jack Paar takes over the “Tonight” show, it’s renamed “The Jack Paar Show.”

1958 – U.S. Congress OKs National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

1963 – Peter. Paul and Mary release “Blowin’ In The Wind”

1968 – Pope Paul VI reaffirms Catholic Church’s ban on artificial birth control methods

1975 – OAS members, including U.S., vote to lift collective sanctions against Cuba.

1981 – Overblown ‘Wedding of the Century’: Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer

1997 – Japan finds Minamata Bay mercury-free 40 years after contaminated fish crisis

1998 – United Auto Worker 54-day strike against GM ends. Lost revenue: $2.8 billion

2005 – Astronomers announce discovery of Xena, larger than Pluto, in solar orbit

2014 – Concussion lawsuit: NCAA to pay $70 million for head injury study, but $0 for treatment, so injured players must sue their colleges separately.

*See the good news about Siberian Tigers in Tigers Burning Bright – https://flowersforsocrates.com/2016/07/28/tiger-burning-bright/

Visuals

• Siberian Tiger cubs
• International Flags
• Arc de Triomphe in Paris at night
• Clara Bow, the ‘IT Girl’ – photo by Eugene Robert Richee (1926)
• Orbit of Xena, the dwarf planet