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, 487,152 hours 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 1030 –
  Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
• 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.
• 1793 –
  John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
• 1836 –
  Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1858 –
  United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• 1993 –
  The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

Who were born on July 29?

• 1878 –
  Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
• 1904 –
  J. R. D. Tata, France-born Indian aviation pioneer and industrialist (d. 1993)
• 1924 –
  Robert Horton, American actor
• 1933 –
  Colin Davis, British racing driver
• 1935 –
  Peter Schreier, German tenor
• 1938 –
  Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
• 1943 –
  David Taylor, English snooker player
• 1956 –
  Ronnie Musgrove, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
• 1974 –
  Josh Radnor, American actor
• 1981 –
  Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver

Who died on July 29?

• 1612 –
  Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
• 1781 –
  Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 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)
• 1973 –
  Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 1983 –
  Luis Buñuel, Spanish director and writer (b. 1900)
• 1994 –
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1996 –
  Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
• 2007 –
  Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
• 2007 –
  Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)