What are the important events that happened on July 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 29 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 16, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,703,520 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecahenagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,238 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 29 Historical Events
- 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.
- 904 –Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire’s second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
- 1588 –Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
- 1937 –Tōngzhōu Incident: in Tōngzhōu (China), the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
- 1959 –First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
- 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.
- 1976 –In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
- 1987 –Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
Who were born on July 29?
- 1887 –Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born American composer (d. 1951)
- 1913 –Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal
- 1916 –Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
- 1923 –Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1941 –David Warner, English actor
- 1941 –Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1945 –Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager
- 1970 –Andi Peters, British TV presenter
- 1981 –Troy Perkins, American soccer player
- 1984 –Wilson Palacios, Honduran footballer
Who died on July 29?
- 1752 –Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703)
- 1781 –Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
- 1813 –Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
- 1887 –Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
- 1913 –Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
- 1934 –Didier Pitre, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
- 1979 –Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
- 1983 –Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 2001 –Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
- 2007 –Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
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