The July 29th is the 210e Jour of the Année (211e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

20th century

  • 1907 : Creation of the movement Scout under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.

  • 1922 : The Alliés launch a Ultimatum which enjoint with the Greek not to occupy Constantinople (Istanbul).
  • 1937 : The crown prince Farouk, 18 years, becomes king of Egypt.
  • 1939 : Decree of dissolution of the Municipal Body of the Firemen of the Town of Marseilles and Creation of the Battalion of the Sailor-Firemen of Marseilles
  • 1940: Beginning of the air blitz of the German against the the United Kingdom.
  • 1946 : Conference with Paris joining together the 21 countries which fought the Axe.
  • 1957 : Foundation of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
  • 1959 : Hawaii vote for the first time in the capacity as American State and sends representatives to the Congrès.
  • 1967 : Accident of US Forrestal making 134 dead.
  • 1973 : The Greek voters confirm the abolition of the Monarchie and the installation of Yeóryos Papadópoulos with the head of the State.
  • 1975 : The Organization of the American States raises the Embargo against Cuba, into force since 1964.
  • 1981 : Charles, crown prince to England, marries lady Diana Spencer, in London.
  • 1987 : Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand signs the agreement for the construction of the tunnel under the Manche (Eurotunnel).
  • 1990 : At least 600 people, for the majority of the women and the children, taken refuge in a church are massacred by governmental troops with Monrovia with the Liberia.
  • 1991 :
    • Opening to Bamako (Mali) of the “National conference” chaired by Tinder Toumani Touré, which, in fifteen days, will adopt a project of Constitution, a Electoral code, a Charter of the political parties, as well as a text on the state of the Nation!
    • Boris Ieltsine recognizes officially the independence of the Lithuania.
  • 1992 : The former East-German leader Erich Honecker, taken refuge to Moscow since 1991, returns to Berlin to answer in front of the justice of dead of 13 Easts Germany which tried to flee with the Western.
  • 1997 : Image filmeds by a cameraman who accompanied to defer it American Nate Thayer show a public meeting during which Pol Pot would have been condemned to the life imprisonment by his/her former companions. The former strong man of the country had not been filmed for 18 years.
  • 1998 : Denouncing the conditions under which the surveys in connection with the doping are carried out, the French Laurent Jalabert, world number one, gives up the Tour de France, like its fellow-members.
  • 2000 : A former prefect of the province of Guipúzcoa, Juan Maria Jauregui, is killed in the south of Saint-Sebastien to the Basque Country Spanish. It is the tenth attack allotted by the police force to the Basque separatists of the ETA in fifteen days.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Marthe, sister of Marie de Béthanie. According to a legend of Provence it finishes its days with Tarascon, where it évangélisa country. Symbolically she strangles the tarasque one, a voracious dragon appearing the demon.
  • Wolf of Troyes (+ 478 or 479), bishop.
  • Olaf II of Norway (+ 1030), king and martyr.

Catholic saints of the day

See too

Beats-smg: Lėipas 29 Be-X-old: 29 ліпеня Fiu-vro: 29. hainakuu päiv Nds-nl: 29 juli Simple: July 29 Zh-yue: 7 月 29 號

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