Public Holidays on July 29

• 🌍 Día de la Gran Parada Militar (Peru)
• 🌍 Independence Day (Peru)
• 🌍 วันอาสาฬหบูชา (Thailand)

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Religious Observances on July 29

• Jewish: Tu B’Av ט״ו באב

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On This Day in History — July 29

• 2015 — Microsoft releases Windows 10.
• 2013 — Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
• 2010 — An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
• 2005 — Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
• 1996 — The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
• 1993 — The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

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Notable Births on July 29

• 2000 — Lino Facioli, Austro-Brazilian-English Actor
• 1998 — Anna Murashige, Japanese singer
• 1994 — Liam O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 — Nicole Melichar, American tennis player
• 1992 — Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
• 1991 — Dale Copley, Australian rugby league player

Notable Deaths on July 29

• 2015 — Antony Holland, English-Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 2015 — Peter O'Sullevan, Anglo-Irish sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2015 — Mike Pyle, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Franklin H. Westervelt, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 — M. Caldwell Butler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1925)
• 2014 — Jon R. Cavaiani, English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)

Public Holidays on July 30

• 🌍 วันเข้าพรรษา (Thailand)

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On This Day in History — July 30

• 2014 — One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed.
• 2012 — A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• 2012 — A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
• 2006 — The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
• 2003 — In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 1981 — As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

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Notable Births on July 30

• 1996 — Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player
• 1993 — Jacob Faria, American baseball player
• 1993 — Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player
• 1992 — Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer
• 1991 — Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter
• 1990 — Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

Notable Deaths on July 30

• 2016 — Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947)
• 2015 — Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist (b. 1930)
• 2015 — Francis Paul Prucha, American historian and academic (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
• 2014 — Robert Drew, American director and producer (b. 1924)