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Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands refimprove
National Anthem Day in Romania refimprove
1030 – King Olaf II 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
1848Irish 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
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
1947ENIAC, 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
1967Vietnam 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 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
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

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July 29: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2021)

Cape Cod Canal
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