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What Happened on July 29th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.
2015	The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island.
2013	Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
2010	An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
2005	Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
1996	The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
1993	The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1987	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987	Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
1981	A worldwide television audience of around 750 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1981	After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
1980	Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
1976	In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1973	Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
1973	Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
1967	Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967	During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1965	Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1959	First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1958	U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1957	The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar premieres on NBC with Jack Paar beginning the modern day talk show.
1950	Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
1948	Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1945	The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1937	Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
1932	Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1921	Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
1920	Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1914	The Cape Cod Canal opened.
1907	Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1901	Land lottery begins in Oklahoma.
1900	In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. His son, Victor Emmanuel III, 31 years old, succeed to the throne.
1899	The First Hague Convention is signed.
1871	The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
1862	American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
1858	United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1851	Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1848	Great Famine of Ireland: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1836	Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
1818	French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
1775	Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
1693	War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1588	Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1567	The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1565	The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1148	The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
1030	Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1018	Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
1014	Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
923	Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).
904	Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
615	Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
587	The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.

Famous People Born on July 29

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Year	Name
1971	Andrea Philipp, German sprinter
1946	Stig Blomqvist, Swedish race car driver
1900	Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1992	Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
1952	Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
1950	Jenny Holzer, American painter, author, and dancer
1872	Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
1849	Max Nordau, Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (d. 1923)
1860	Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (d. 1940)
1891	Bernhard Zondek, German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (d. 1966)

Famous People Deaths On July 29

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Date	Name
1887	Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1813)
1970	John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (b. 1899)
796	Offa of Mercia (b. 730)
1924	Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
1326	Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (b. 1259)
1890	Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1983	Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
2015	Antony Holland, English-Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1920)
1962	Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
1108	Philip I of France (b. 1052)