Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 29
This is a list of selected July 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1693 – Nine Years' War: France defeated the allied forces of William III of England at the Battle of Landen in present-day Neerwinden, Belgium. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1900 – Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. | Bresci: refimprove; Umberto: refimprove |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | several whole paragraphs without citations |
Eligible
- 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested by Union troops after her lover turned her in.
- 1914 – Connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Canal opened on a limited basis.
- 1950 – Korean War: U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment troops concluded four days of shootings of civilians, sparked by fears that columns of refugees might contain North Korean spies.
- 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.
- 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
- Born/died: Francesco Mochi (b. 1580) · Philip Charles Durham (b. 1763) · Ronald Fisher (d. 1962)
- 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ended in a decisive victory for the Muslims, leading to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
- 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel (pictured) submitted his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", providing strong support for the wave theory of light.
- 1914 – The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor SMS Bodrog upon Serbian defences near Belgrade.
- 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.
- 1981 – An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million people watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Ivan Aivazovsky (b. 1817) · Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (b. 1846) · Edward Gierek (d. 2001)