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July 29: Torch Festival in China (2024)
- 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Byzantine forces defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the mountains of Belasica near present-day Klyuch.
- 1693 – Nine Years' War: French troops defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance led by William III of England at the Battle of Landen in present-day Neerwinden, Belgium.
- 1818 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.
- 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis.
- 1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.
- Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz (b. 1859)
- Isidor Isaac Rabi (b. 1898)
- Jaojoby (b. 1955)
- Virginia S. Baker (d. 1998)
Did you know?
[edit]- ... that Adam Maraana (pictured), an Arab-Israeli, is competing in swimming for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
- ... that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois?
- ... that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier?
- ... that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics?
- ... that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids show in 1989?
- ... that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma?
- ... that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum?
- ... that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?