On this day in History - Jul 29
- 0238 - Pupienus and Balbinus die (assassinated). Roman Emperors
- 1014 - Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
- 1030 - King Olaf II fought and died in the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
- 1099 - Pope Urban II dies
- 1108 - King Philip I of France dies (b. 1081).
- 1507 - Martin Behaim dies (b. 1459). Navigator and geographer.
- 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
- 1588 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France.
- 1644 - Pope Urban VIII dies.
- 1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
- 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
- 1801 - George Bradshaw was born (d. 1853). English publisher.
- 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville was born (d. 1859). Historian and political scientist.
- 1833 - William Wilberforce dies. Campaigner against slavery
- 1843 - Johannes Schmidt was born (d. 1901). German linguist.
- 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart dies. Composer.
- 1846 - Princess Isabel was born in Rio de Janeiro -Brazil (d. 14 Nov 1921).
- 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by police.
- 1849 - Max Nordau was born (d. 1923). Author, philosopher and Zionist leader.
- 1856 - Robert Schumann dies. German composer
- 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and retained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
- 1869 - Booth Tarkington was born (d. 1946). American author.
- 1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth was born (d. 1942). Methodist minister, social worker, and politician.
- 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya was born (d. 1949). Actress
- 1878 - Don Marquis was born. Author (d. 1937)
- 1883 - Benito Mussolini was born (d. 1945). Italian dictator.
- 1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob was born (d. 1942). Colombian poet and writer.
- 1884 - Ralph A. Bard was born (d. 1975). U.S. Navy Under Secretary.
- 1887 - Sigmund Romberg was born (d. 1951). Composer.
- 1890 - Vincent van Gogh dies (b. 1853). Dutch painter.
- 1892 - William Powell was born (d. 1984). Actor.
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie was born (d. 1983) . British general. - 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi was born (d. 1988). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1899 - The First Hague Convention was signed.
- 1900 - Eyvind Johnson was born (d. 1976). Swedish writer.
- 1905 - Clara Bow was born (d. 1965). Actress.
- 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld was born (d. 1961). UN Secretary-General,.
- 1905 - Thelma Todd was born (d. 1935). Actress.
- 1905 - Stanley Kunitz was born. American poet
- 1906 - Diana Vreeland was born (d. 1989). Fashion editor.
- 1907 - Melvin Belli was born (d. 1996). Lawyer and actor.
- 1920 - Rodolfo Acosta was born (d. 1974). Mexican character actor.
- 1924 - Lloyd Bochner was born. Canadian actor
- 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis was born. Greek composer.
- 1926 - Don Carter was born. Bowler
- 1927 - Harry Mulisch was born. Dutch author
- 1930 - Paul Taylor was born. Dancer, choreographer
- 1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, US troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
- 1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker was born. U.S. Senator
- 1935 - Peter Schreier was born. German tenor
- 1938 - Peter Jennings was born. Television news anchor.
- 1939 - Ricardo Jorge dies (b. 1858). Portuguese physician, professor and writer.
- 1941 - David Warner was born. Actor
- 1942 - Tony Sirico was born. Actor
- 1943 - David Taylor was born. English snooker player
- 1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
- 1948 - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom.
- 1951- Hozumi Shigeto dies. Japanese author.
- 1953 - Ken Burns was born. Television producer and director
- 1954 - Coen de Koning dies. Dutch speed skater
- 1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK.
- 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
- 1957 - Nelli Kim was born. Soviet gymnast.
- 1957 - Nascimento do poeta português Luís Miguel Nava. O seu primeiro livro, Películas, publicado em 1979, recebeu o Prémio Revelação da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. Vulcão, de 1994, foi o seu último livro.
- 1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- 1959 - Ruud Janssen was born. Teacher, writer, and artist
- 1959 - Sanjay Dutt was born. Actor.
- 1962 - Oceano was born. Portuguese football player.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
- 1965 - Chang-Rae Lee was born. Author
- 1966 - Martina McBride was born. Country singer
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst US naval disaster since World War II (134 American servicemen are killed, 62 injured, 21 planes are destroyed and 42 more are damaged).
- 1970 - John Barbirolli dies. Conductor
- 1970 - George Szell dies. Hungarian conductor
- 1972 - Wil Wheaton was born. Actor
- 1973 - Stephen Dorff was born. Actor
- 1974 - Steve-O was born. Musician and actor
- 1974 - Mama Cass Elliot dies. musician
- 1974 - Erich Kästner dies. German author
- 1975 - James Blish dies. Science fiction writer.
- 1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one person and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
- 1979 - Bill Todman dies. Game show producer
- 1979 - Abs Breen was born. Singer.
- 1981 - Fernando Alonso was born. Race car driver
- 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
- 1981 - Robert Moses dies (b. 1888). New York public works official.
- 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin dies. Physicist and inventor
- 1983 - David Niven dies. British actor
- 1983 - Raymond Massey dies. Actor
- 1983 - Luis Buñuel dies. Spanish film director
- 1984 - Fred Waring dies. Band leader, inventor.
- 1990 - Bruno Kreisky dies (b. 1911). Chancellor of Austria
- 1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
- 1995 - Fernando Curado Ribeiro dies in Lisbon (b. 25 May 1919). Portuguese actor and profissional of radio.
- 1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a US federal court.
- 2001 - Edward Gierek dies. Polish politician
- 2001 - Henryk Jablonski dies. President of Poland
- 2001 - Wau Holland dies. German hacker.
- 2003 - Foday Sankoh dies. Sierra Leonean rebel leader
- 2004 - Francis Crick dies. Molecular biologist
- 2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou dies (b. 1923). Greek comedienne and actress.
- 2004 - U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2005 - Hamas, the main Palestinian opposition party in the Palestinian Authority, hold a mass wedding on the West Bank in which 226 couples performed the Nikah.
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