Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 29
This is a list of selected July 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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July 29: Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands; National Anthem Day in Romania
- 1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria.
- 1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an Unequal Treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges.
- 1947 – ENIAC (pictured), the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, remaining in continuous operation until October 2 1955.
- 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.
- 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched Charles, Prince of Wales, marry Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.