July 29, 1945 in History

Event:

After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine





More Notable Events on July 29:
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1938 Olympic National Park forms
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