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