Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 29

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  Belle Boyd
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  Flag of IAEA
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  King Olaf II of Norway
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  Battle of Kleidion, depicted in the Madrid Skylitzes
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  Socialist Party of America logo
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  NASA logo
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  ENIAC
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  USS Forrestal
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  Arc de Triomphe
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  Cape Cod Canal
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  Augustin Fresnel
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  Combined coat of arms of Charles and Diana

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Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands	refimprove
National Anthem Day in Romania	refimprove
1030 – King [[Olaf II of Norway|Template:Nowrap]] 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
1848 – Irish 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
1862 – American 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
1922 – The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that up to 100 Korean workers who were constructing a hydroelectric plant on the Shinano River in Japan had been murdered and thrown into the river.	Too much uncited
1947 – ENIAC, 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
1967 – Vietnam 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|Template:Nowrap 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
Francesco Mochi|b|1580|	Birthday not cited, too mu9ch uncited
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
Elizabeth Dole|b|1936|	Orange "more citations needed" banner
Ali Sami Yen|d|1951|	Too much uncited
Christian Benítez|d|2013|	Too much uncited

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• 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.
• 1900 – Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
• 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.
• 1921 – Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
• 1938 – The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential commodities in anticipation of war, received royal assent.
• 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.
• Born/died: | Pupienus|d|238| Offa of Mercia|d|796| Philip Charles Durham|b|1763| Ivan Aivazovsky|b|1817| Bhimsen Thapa|d|1839| Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil|b|1846| Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz|b|1859| Isidor Isaac Rabi|b|1898| Alexis de Tocqueville|b|1805| Foster Furcolo|d|1911| Nancy Kassebaum|b|1932| Eusèbe Jaojoby|b|1955| Sanjay Dutt|b|1959| Ronald Fisher|d|1962| Bruno Kreisky|d|1990| Virginia S. Baker|d|1998| Edward Gierek|d|2001| Dame Diagne|b|2005| Tatiana Egorova|d|2012| Oliver Dragojević|d|2018|

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• 904 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, was sacked by Saracen raiders.
• 1567 – The infant James VI was crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
• 1914 – The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor Bodrog on Serbian defences near Belgrade.
• 1950 – Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri.
• 1981 – An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (combined coat of arms pictured) at St Paul's Cathedral in London.