Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 29
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands | refimprove |
| National Anthem Day in Romania | refimprove |
| 1030 – King Olaf II fought and died in the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to regain the Norwegian throne from the Danes. | refimprove |
| 1836 – The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was formally inaugurated. | refimprove |
| 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: An unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule in Tipperary was put down by police. | refimprove |
| 1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an unequal treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges. | refimprove section |
| 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested by Union forces after her lover turned her in. | 6x CN tags |
| 1899 – The first Hague Convention, among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law, was signed. | refimprove section |
| 1901 – The Socialist Party of America was formed after a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party. | unreferenced section |
| 1922 – The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that up to 100 Korean workers who were constructing a hydroelectric plant on the Shinano River in Japan had been murdered and thrown into the river. | Too much uncited |
| 1947 – ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, U.S. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency was established to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. | refimprove |
| 1958 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA. | too detailed section |
| 1967 – Vietnam War: During preparation for another strike in the Gulf of Tonkin, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was hit by a series of chain-reaction explosions caused by an unusual electrical anomaly on its flight deck, killing 134 sailors and injuring 161 others. | unreferenced section |
| 1987 – Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan president J. R. Jayewardene signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. | uncertain that event happened on July 29 |
| Francesco Mochi|b|1580| | Birthday not cited, too mu9ch uncited |
| Clara Bow |b|1905 | year of birth is not referenced, and claims that it is "accepted by the majority of sources", which brings too much doubt on the matter |
| Elizabeth Dole|b|1936| | Orange "more citations needed" banner |
| Ali Sami Yen|d|1951| | Too much uncited |
| Christian Benítez|d|2013| | Too much uncited |
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- 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Byzantine forces defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the mountains of Belasica near present-day Klyuch.
- 1693 – Nine Years' War: French troops defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance led by William III of England at the Battle of Landen in present-day Neerwinden, Belgium.
- 1818 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.
- 1900 – Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
- 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis.
- 1921 – Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
- 1938 – The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential commodities in anticipation of war, received royal assent.
- 1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.
- Born/died: | Pupienus|d|238| Offa of Mercia|d|796| Philip Charles Durham|b|1763| Ivan Aivazovsky|b|1817| Bhimsen Thapa|d|1839| Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil|b|1846| Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz|b|1859| Isidor Isaac Rabi|b|1898| Alexis de Tocqueville|b|1805| Foster Furcolo|d|1911| Nancy Kassebaum|b|1932| Eusèbe Jaojoby|b|1955| Sanjay Dutt|b|1959| Ronald Fisher|d|1962| Bruno Kreisky|d|1990| Virginia S. Baker|d|1998| Edward Gierek|d|2001| Tatiana Egorova|d|2012| Oliver Dragojević|d|2018|
Combined coat of arms of Charles and Diana
- 904 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, was sacked by Saracen raiders.
- 1567 – The infant James VI was crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
- 1914 – The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor Bodrog on Serbian defences near Belgrade.
- 1950 – Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri.
- 1981 – An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (combined coat of arms pictured) at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
- Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (b. 1905)
- Mikis Theodorakis (b. 1925)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (d. 1994)