29 July History
- 1588 - The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England.
- 1602 - The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with Spain and Savoy against King Henry IV of France.
- 1603 - Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists.
- 1693 - The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden.
- 1830 - Liberals led by the Marquis of Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king's restrictions on citizens' rights.
- 1848 - A rebellion against British rule is put down in Tipperary, Ireland.
- 1858 - Japan signs a treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States.
- 1862 - Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore's Mill, Missouri.
- 1875 - Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against the Ottoman army.
- 1915 - U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti.
- 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis).
- 1945 - After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives.
- 1981 - Prince Charles marries Lady Diana.
29 July Birthdays
- 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian ( Democracy in America).
- 1877 - Charles William Beebe, American biologist, explorer and writer.
- 1878 - Don Marquis, novelist and poet.
- 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Dictator of Italy (1922-1945).
- 1887 - Sigmund Romberg, composer.
- 1900 - Owen Lattimore, writer.
- 1905 - Stanley Kunitz, poet.
- 1905 - Dag Hammerarskjold, Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961).
- 1909 - Chester Himes, author (Cotton Comes to Harlem, If He Hollers, Let Him Go).
- 1918 - Edwin Greene O'Connor, author (The Last Hurrah).
- 1918 - Mary Lee Settle, novelist.
- 1920 - Hank Ketchum, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace.
- 1930 - Paul Taylor, choreographer and dancer.