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 210^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 16, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,229,120 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 ‘dihectadecagon’ 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 203 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 4,603 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 29 Historical Events

• 1565 –
  The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 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.
• 1836 –
  Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1848 –
  Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1981 –
  A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
• 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?

• 1849 –
  Max Nordau, Austrian-Hungarian writer and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
• 1907 –
  Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1918 –
  Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
• 1921 –
  Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1935 –
  Peter Schreier, German tenor
• 1938 –
  Peter Jennings, Canadian-born American journalist (d. 2005)
• 1955 –
  Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
• 1971 –
  Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer and songwriter
• 1979 –
  Ronald Murray, American basketball player
• 1980 –
  Fernando González, Chilean tennis player

Who died on July 29?

• 1839 –
  Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
• 1844 –
  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
• 1913 –
  Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1924 –
  Sotirios Krokidas, Greek law professor, interim Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
• 1934 –
  Didier Pitre, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1976 –
  Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
• 1979 –
  Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
• 2003 –
  Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
• 2007 –
  Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
• 2009 –
  Gayatri Devi, England-born Indian Maharani of Jaipur (b. 1919)