Monday July 29, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

July 29: Day of the Week

July 29, 2024 is the 211th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 29 Historical Event(s)

238
The Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
615
Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at age 12.
1014
Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
1030
Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1567
James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1858
United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1921
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1965
Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1967
During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1967
Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.

Who were born on July 29?

1890
Daniel J. Callaghan, United States Navy officer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
1892
William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1905
Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1911
Archbishop Iakovos of America, Turkish-born Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (d. 2005)
1924
Elizabeth Short, American waitress, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1924
Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1949
Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
1951
Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
1959
Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and Fluxus and mail artist
1971
Monica Calhoun, American actress

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