About July 29
July 29, 2024 is the 211th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 184 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 29
- 238 –The Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
- 615 –Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at age 12.
- 1030 –Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
- 1565 –The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1567 –James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
- 1693 –War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
- 1900 –In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
- 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, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
- 1921 –Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
- 1932 –Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
- 1937 –Tōngzhōu Incident: in Tōngzhōu (China), the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
- 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.
- 1959 –First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
- 1967 –During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
- 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.
- 1973 –Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
- 1993 –The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
- 1996 –The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad .
- 2005 –Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
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