Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2008. There are 155 days left in the year.
1588 _ Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1858 _ First commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1957 _ International Atomic Energy Agency established by U.N.
1965 _ Beatles movie ``Help" premiers, Queen Elizabeth attends
1968 _ Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control
1974 _ Second impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1975 _ Ford became first U.S. president to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1988 _ FDIC bails out first Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 _ Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March,
1988 _ Last U.S. Playboy Club (Lansing, Mich.) closes