The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)

FRIDAY IN HISTORY

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Today is Friday, July 29, the 211th day of 2016. There are 155 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On July 29, 1976, the first of eight shootings ascribed to the serial killer known as “Son of Sam” occurred on a street in TheBronx, as agunmankil­led 18-year-old Donna Lauria and wounded her friend, 19-year-old Jody Valenti.

On this date:

In1588, the English attacked the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory.

In 1900, Italian King Humbert I was assassinat­ed by an anarchist.

In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautic­s and Space Act, creating NASA.

In 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarri­er USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen.

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 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, Fla.

In 2004, Sen. John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidenti­al nomination.

Ten years ago: The U.S. command announced it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell sectarian violence sweeping the Iraqi capital.

Five years ago: Norway began burying the dead, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage.

One year ago: Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that America’s armed forces stood ready to confront Iran, but that a successful implementa­tion of the nuclear agreement with Tehran was preferable to a military strike.

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