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 211^th 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.

July 29 Historical Events

• 615 –
  Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at age 12.
• 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 less than three months later, on October 6.
• 1567 –
  James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
• 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.
• 1858 –
  United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on July 29?

• 1817 –
  Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
• 1846 –
  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921)
• 1911 –
  Archbishop Iakovos of America, Turkish-born Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (d. 2005)
• 1941 –
  David Warner, English actor
• 1942 –
  Tony Sirico, American actor
• 1945 –
  Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager
• 1953 –
  Tim Gunn, American television personality
• 1956 –
  Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
• 1965 –
  Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born American novelist
• 1973 –
  Stephen Dorff, American actor

Who died on July 29?

• 1833 –
  William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
• 1890 –
  Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
• 1900 –
  King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1954 –
  Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1979 –
  Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1983 –
  Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 2001 –
  Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 –
  Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
• 2003 –
  Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
• 2007 –
  Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)