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This is a list of selected July 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands refimprove
National Anthem Day in Romania refimprove
1030 – King Olaf II fought and died in the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to regain the Norwegian throne from the Danes. refimprove
1836 – The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was formally inaugurated. refimprove
1848Irish Potato Famine: An unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule in Tipperary was put down by police. refimprove
1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an unequal treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges. refimprove section
1862American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested by Union forces after her lover turned her in. 6x CN tags
1899 – The first Hague Convention, among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law, was signed. refimprove section
1901 – The Socialist Party of America was formed after a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party. unreferenced section
1947ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, U.S. refimprove section
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency was established to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. refimprove
1958 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA. too detailed section
1967Vietnam War: During preparation for another strike in the Gulf of Tonkin, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was hit by a series of chain-reaction explosions caused by an unusual electrical anomaly on its flight deck, killing 134 sailors and injuring 161 others. unreferenced section
1987 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War. refimprove section
2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. uncertain that event happened on July 29
Clara Bow |b|1905 year of birth is not referenced, and claims that it is "accepted by the majority of sources", which brings too much doubt on the matter

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July 29: Torch Festival in China (2024)

Cape Cod Canal
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