July 29 Events
1914 – Transcontinental telephone service begins with the first call between NYC and SF
1773 – The first schoolhouse west of the Alleghenies is built in Schoenbrunn, Ohio
2013 – €103 million in diamonds stolen from Carton Hotel, Cannes, France
1994 – 200,000 Moslems demand death for feminist Taslima Nasrin