July 29 in history
Events on July 29
Notable events that happened on July 29 in past years.
- 2024
Three children are stabbed to death and 10 other people injured at a dance studio in Southport, England. This incident, coupled with widespread online misinformation, leads to various racially motivated riots across the UK.
Wikipedia article: 2024 Southport stabbings - 2013
Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
Wikipedia article: Granges-près-Marnand train crash - 1987
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Channel Tunnel).
Wikipedia article: Margaret Thatcher - 1981
After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Wikipedia article: Abolhassan Banisadr - 1973
Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
Wikipedia article: Roger Williamson - 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).
Wikipedia article: Dwight D. Eisenhower - 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.
Wikipedia article: Olympic Games - 1921
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Wikipedia article: Adolf Hitler - 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 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
Wikipedia article: Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - 1871
The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
Wikipedia article: Valley Railroad (Connecticut) - 1836
Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
Wikipedia article: Arc de Triomphe - 1693
War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
Wikipedia article: Nine Years' War - 1565
The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland, in a Catholic ceremony.
Wikipedia article: Mary, Queen of Scots - 923
Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).
- 587 BC
The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
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