29 Julie

The **29t o Julie** is the 210t day o the year (211t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 155 days ti come.

## Events

* 1030 - Olaf II o Norawa dees at the Battle o Stiklestad.
* 1567 - James VI, Keeng o Scots is crouned in Stirlin.
* 1588 - The Spaingie Armada is defeatit.
* 1836 - Inauguration o the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
* 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops defeat Cheenese forces in the Battle o Seonghwan.
* 1900 - Assassination o Umberto I o Italy ib Gaetano Bresci.
* 1900 - Vladimir Lenin leaves Roushie an spends five year in exile in Swisserland an Germany.
* 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader o the Nazi Pairty.
* 1948 - Stairt o the 1948 Simmer Olympic Gemmes in Lunnon.
* 1973 - A majority o voters in Greece chooses a republic ower the monarchy.
* 1980 - The Banner o Iran is modified.
* 1981 - Weddin o Charles, Prince o Wales an Diana, Princess o Wales.
* 1987 - Margaret Thatcher an Francois Mitterrand sign an agreement tae build the Chainel Tunnel.
* 2005 - The dwarf planet Eris is discovered.
* 2006 - The Montreal Declaration for LGBT richts is adoptit.
* 2010 - Stairt o a major flood disaster in Pakistan.
* 2010 - An overloadit passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River, Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic o the Congo, killin at least 80 fowk.
* 2018 - Geraint Thomas becomes the first Welshman tae win the Tour de France.
* 2019 - A preeson riot in Altamira, Para, Brazil, results in 57 daiths.
* 2019 - Boris Johnson meets Scots First Meenister Nicola Sturgeon for the first time syne acomin the Breetish prime meenister.

## Births

* 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French poleetical thinker an historian (d. 1859)
* 1817 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Roushie penter (d. 1900)
* 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Dictator o Italy (d. 1945)
* 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Hungarian-American pheesicist (d. 1988)
* 1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swadish writer (d. 1976)
* 1905 - Dag Hammarskjold, Swadish Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (d. 1961)
* 1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
* 1912 - William Serle, Scots ornithologist, medicinar an kirk meenister (d. 1992)
* 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek componer an poleetical activist
* 1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (d. 2010)
* 1934 - Doug Moran, Scots fitbawer
* 1935 - John Corrie, Scots politeecian
* 1937 - Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime meenister o Japan (d. 2006)
* 1946 - Bill Forsyth, Scots film director
* 1949 - Allan McGraw, Scots fitbawer
* 1951 - Jack Blessing, American actor (d. 2017)
* 1953 - Ken Burns, American director an producer
* 1963 - Kenny McDowall, Scots fitbawer
* 1974 - Josh Radnor, American actor
* 1980 - Fernando Gonzalez, Chilean tennis player
* 1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spaingie racin driver

## Daiths

* 248 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor (b. 165)
* 248 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor (b. 178)
* 1030 - Olaf II o Norawa (b. 995)
* 1099 - Pape Urban II (b. 1035)
* 1833 - William Wilberforce, Inglis politeecian an activist (b. 1759)
* 1856 - Robert Schumann, German componer (b. 1810)
* 1857 - Thomas Dick, Scots kirk meenister, science teacher an writer (b. 1774)
* 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch penter (b. 1853)
* 1900 - King Umberto I o Italy (b. 1844)
* 1913 - Tobias Asser, Dutch lawer an legal scholart (b. 1838)
* 1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist an philosopher (b. 1898)
* 1983 - David Niven, Inglis actor (b. 1910)
* 1994 - Dorothy Hodgkin, Inglis biochemist an biopheesicist (b. 1910)
* 2010 - Alex Wilson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1933)

## Halidays

* Saunt Olav's Day (Norawa, Faroe Islands)
* Naitional Thai leid Day (Thailand)
* Internaitional Tiger Day