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July 29 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 several months later, on October 6.
• 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.
• 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
• 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.
• 1830 – Abdication of Charles X of France.
• 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1847 – Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.
• 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
• 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C..
• 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• 1901 – The Socialist Party of America founded.
• 1907 – Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
• 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
• 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 – Tongzhou Incident
• 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
• 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.
• 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• 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).
• 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
• 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.
• 1976 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• 1981 – Marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer.
• 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• 1988 – The film Cry Freedom is seized by South African authorities.
• 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues.
• 1993 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
• 1996 – The controversial 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 Eris.

Births

• 1166 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
• 1605 – Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
• 1763 – Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
• 1797 – Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
• 1801 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
• 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
• 1817 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
• 1846 – Isabel of Brazil (d. 1921)
• 1843 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
• 1849 – Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
• 1874 – James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
• 1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
• 1878 – Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
• 1883 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
• 1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
• 1885 – Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
• 1887 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
• 1891 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966)
• 1892 – William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1897 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
• 1904 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
• 1905 – Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
• 1906 – Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Chester Himes, American author (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Foster Furcolo, 60^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
• 1914 – Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
• 1915 – Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Francis W. Sargent, 64^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
• 1916 – Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Rochus Misch, German courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler, the last survivor of the Führerbunker
• 1918 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
• 1920 – Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
• 1920 – Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1923 – Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
• 1923 – Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Robert Horton, American actor
• 1924 – Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
• 1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
• 1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
• 1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
• 1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
• 1930 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
• 1932 – Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
• 1933 – Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
• 1933 – Colin Davis, British racing driver
• 1933 – Robert Fuller, American actor
• 1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor
• 1936 – Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• 1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
• 1941 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1941 – David Warner, English actor
• 1942 – Tony Sirico, American actor
• 1943 – David Taylor, English snooker player
• 1945 – Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager
• 1946 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
• 1946 – Neal Doughty, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
• 1946 – Diane Keen, English actress
• 1947 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
• 1949 – Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador
• 1950 – Mike Starr, American actor
• 1951 – Dan Driessen, American baseball player
• 1951 – Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
• 1952 – Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
• 1953 – Ken Burns, American producer and director
• 1953 – Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush)
• 1953 – Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 – Tim Gunn, American television personality
• 1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator
• 1955 – Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
• 1956 – Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
• 1956 – Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
• 1957 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
• 1957 – Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
• 1959 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
• 1959 – Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
• 1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
• 1959 – John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
• 1962 – Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
• 1962 – Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
• 1963 – Graham Poll, English football referee
• 1963 – Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
• 1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress
• 1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
• 1965 – Luis Alicea, baseball coach
• 1965 – Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
• 1966 – Martina McBride, American singer
• 1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
• 1968 – Paavo Lötjönen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
• 1970 – John Rennie, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1970 – Andi Peters, British TV presenter
• 1971 – Monica Calhoun, American actress
• 1971 – Bryan Dattilo, American actor
• 1971 – Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
• 1972 – Wil Wheaton, American actor
• 1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor
• 1973 – Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor
• 1974 – Afroman, American rapper
• 1975 – Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Lanka de Silva, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1977 – Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, American songwriter and record producer
• 1979 – Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
• 1979 – Ronald Murray, American basketball player
• 1980 – Ryan Braun, Canadian baseball player
• 1980 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
• 1980 – Rachel Miner, American actress
• 1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
• 1981 – Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Troy Perkins, American soccer player
• 1982 – Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
• 1982 – Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Allison Mack, American actress
• 1983 – Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
• 1984 – Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
• 1985 – Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer

Deaths

• 238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor
• 238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor
• 1030 – Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
• 1095 – Saint Ladislaus I, a King of Hungary (b. c. 1040)
• 1099 – Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
• 1108 – Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• 1507 – Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
• 1573 – John Caius, English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (b. 1510)
• 1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
• 1644 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
• 1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703)
• 1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
• 1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
• 1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
• 1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
• 1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
• 1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
• 1857 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
• 1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
• 1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
• 1900 – King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1913 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
• 1934 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1950 – Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
• 1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 – John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 1973 – Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
• 1974 – Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
• 1974 – Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
• 1982 – Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1983 – David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
• 1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)
• 2009 – Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur. (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
• National Anthem Day in Romania.

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Eugenius, king [Magdeburg]
• Saint Felix I, pope, and companions (Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, (siblings)), martyrs [common]
• Saint Ladislas, king, confessor (Deposition) [Hungary]
• Saint Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor [Cologne, Constance, Metz, Paris, France]
• Saint Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers [Sleswig, Scandinavia] – celebrated in Norway as Olsok (St. Olav's Day)
• Saint Pantaleon [Paris]
• Saint Beatrice of Nazareth
• Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians [common]
• Saint Serafina

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ Henry David Thoreau

• selected by Nanobug

2004

In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass

• selected by Kalki

2005

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. ~ IBM maintenance manual, 1925

• proposed by MosheZadka in honor of ENIAC, the world's first digital computer, being reactivated on 29 July 1947, after a memory upgrade that took the better part of a year

2006

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (born 29 July 1805)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. ~ "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958" creating NASA (signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on the 29th of July 1958; 50th anniversary of NASA in 2008)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

For all that has been —
Thanks.
For all that shall be —
Yes.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (born 29 July 1905)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

what man calls civilization always results in deserts ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 4 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)

• 2 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)

• 3 because courage and preparedness are key to victory. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)

• 4 because having power is important, moreso than having every single person agree with it. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It's good to trust others, but not to do so is much better. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)

• 3 because trust is good, but it is always good to be prepared. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The effective execution of a Plan is what counts and not mere planning on paper; it is not what we put on our plate or even what we eat that provides nourishment and growth, but what we digest. ~ J. R. D. Tata

• 2 Zarbon 20:10, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on July 29.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2004
  • Mega Man X: Command Mission for the GameCube in Japan
  • Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls for the GBA in Japan

• 2003
  • Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for the GameCube in North America

• 2002
  • Aggressive Inline for the Xbox in North America

Events

• 2005
  • Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification revokes the classification of MA15+ for Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, effectively banning the game from Australia.

From Familypedia

July 29 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
• 1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
• 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
• 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
• 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.
• 1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
• 1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
• 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
• 1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington.
• 1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born 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 ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
• 1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
• 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• 1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• 1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
• 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
• 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 opened in London.
• 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• 1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• 1959 - First Congressional elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
• 1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
• 1966 - American magazine Datebook releases issue with the Beatles article from the London Evening Standard four months ago which includes John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" statement, setting off a furor resulting the trashing and burning of Beatles records and merchandise and the banning of Beatles songs on radio
• 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 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
• 1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles.
• 1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• 1987 - Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
• 1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
• 1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
• 2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
• 2007 - The ruling coalition of Japan lost its majority in the upper house after the election.

Births

• 1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
• 1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
• 1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
• 1797 - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
• 1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
• 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
• 1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
• 1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
• 1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
• 1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
• 1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
• 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
• 1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
• 1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
• 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
• 1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
• 1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
• 1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
• 1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
• 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
• 1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
• 1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
• 1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
• 1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
• 1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
• 1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1911 - Iakovos (d. 2005)
• 1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
• 1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
• 1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
• 1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
• 1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
• 1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
• 1920 - Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
• 1921 - Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
• 1923 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
• 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
• 1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
• 1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
• 1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
• 1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
• 1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
• 1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
• 1933 - Colin Davis, British racing driver
• 1933 - Robert Fuller, American actor
• 1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
• 1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• 1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
• 1938 - Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
• 1941 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1941 - David Warner, English actor
• 1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
• 1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
• 1946 - Neal Doughty, American keyboardist (REO Speedwagon)
• 1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
• 1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
• 1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
• 1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush)
• 1953 - Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• 1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
• 1955 - Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
• 1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
• 1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
• 1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
• 1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
• 1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
• 1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
• 1959 - Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
• 1959 - John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
• 1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
• 1963 - Graham Poll, English referee
• 1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
• 1963 - Alexandra Paul, American actress
• 1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
• 1965 - Luis Alicea, baseball coach
• 1965 - Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
• 1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
• 1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
• 1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
• 1971 - Monica Calhoun, American actress
• 1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
• 1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
• 1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1974 - Josh Radnor, American actor
• 1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
• 1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
• 1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
• 1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
• 1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
• 1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish two time formula 1 world champion
• 1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
• 1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
• 1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
• 1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player

Deaths

• 238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
• 238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
• 1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
• 1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
• 1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• 1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
• 1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
• 1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
• 1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
• 1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
• 1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
• 1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
• 1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
• 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
• 1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
• 1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
• 1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
• 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
• 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1934 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1950 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883)
• 1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
• 1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
• 1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
• 1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
• 1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
• 1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
• 1981 - Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
• 1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
• 1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
• 1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
• 1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
• 1992 - Michel Larocque, French-Canadian hockey player (b. 1952)
• 1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• Template:Wp1995 - Temika Chantel Johanna Jackson Trinidadian School Student,
• 1996 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
• 1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 - Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
• 2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2007 - Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 - Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
• 2007 - Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)

Holidays and observations

• Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
• National Anthem Day in Romania.

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Eugenius, king [Magdeburg]
• Saint Felix I, pope, and companions (Simplicius, (siblings)), martyrs [common]
• Saint Ladislas, king, confessor (Deposition) [Hungary]
• Saint Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor [Cologne, Constance, Metz, Paris, France]
• Saint Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers [Sleswig, Scandinavia] - celebrated in Norway as Olsok (St. Olav's Day)
• Saint Pantaleon [Paris]
• Saint Beatrice of Nazareth
• Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians [common]
• Saint Serafina

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada