July 29 has been a day of notable events. Let us dig into the specifics: The Neo-Babylonian Empire demolishes the First Temple and sacks Jerusalem in 587 BC. At twelve years old, Pakal climbs the Palenque throne. Saracen forces under Leo of Tripoli sack the second-largest city in the Byzantine Empire, Thessaloniki. At the Battle of Firenzuola, the Lombard army under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I vanquished the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy. At the Battle of Kleidion, Byzantine emperor Basil II utterly defeats the Bulgarian army. 1018: Count Dirk III battles an army dispatched by Emperor Henry II at Vlaardingen. King Olaf II battles and dies at the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to reclaim his Norwegian kingdom from the Danes. 1148: The Second Crusade falls apart after the Siege of Damascus finishes with a crushing crusader loss. Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in 1565. 1567: James VI, a baby, is anointed King of Scotland at Stirling. English navy forces under Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake beat the Spanish Armada off Gravelines in 1588. At the Battle of Landen in the Netherlands, France beat Allied forces in 1693. General George Washington named William Tudor Continental Army Judge Advocate in 1775. French physicist Augustin Fresnels turns in his prize-winning “Memoir on the Diffraction of Light.” Paris opens the Arc de Triomphe in 1836. Police forced down the Tipperary Revolt against British control in 1848. Annibale de Gasparis reported asteroid 15 Eunomia in 1851. 1858: Japan signs the Harris Treaty with the United States. 1862: The Union army arrests Confederate spy Belle Boyd. Opening between Old Saybrook and Hartford, the Connecticut Valley Railroad, 1871 1899: Signing of the First Hague Convention; 1900: Italian King Umberto I dies. Oklahoma started its land lottery in 1901. 1907: Sir Robert Baden-Powell opens the Brownsea Island Scout camp. 1910: The Slocum massacre gets underway. 1914: The Cape Cod Canal opens. 1920: The Link River Dam building gets under way. 1921: Adolf Hitler rises to the head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Troops distributed the remainder of World War I veterans’ “bonus army” in 1932. 1937: China witnesses a rebellion in Tongzhou. 1945: The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched. 1948: The XIV Olympiad Games open in London. 1950: The No Gun Ri massacre ends. 1957: Established is the International Atomic Energy Agency. 1957: Jack Paar opens tonight on NBC. NASA was founded in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act. 1959: Hawaii has its first United States Congress elections. 1965: Arriving in Vietnam, the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers 1967: The USS Forrestal fires, killing 134. 1967: An earthquake rocks Caracas, Venezuela, killing over 500. 1973: Greeks cast votes to remove the monarchy. 1973: Driver Roger Williamson dies in the Dutch Grand Prix. In the first of a string of attacks in 1976, David Berkowitz kills one person and critically wounds another. 1980: Iran designs a fresh “holy” flag. 1981: Lady Diana Spencer and Charles Prince of Wales wed each other. 1981: Massoud Rajavi flees Abolhassan Banisadr to Paris. 1987: Agreements to construct the Eurotunnel are signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand here. Signing the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene in 1987 1993: John Demjanjuk, a claimed Nazi death camp guard, is cleared by Israel’s Supreme Court. 1996: The Communications Decency Act’s kid protection element is declared void. Astronomers revealed their discovery of the minor planet Eris in 2005. At least 80 people die when an overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River. Two passenger trains smashed in Switzerland in 2013, causing 25 injuries. 2015: The first suspected Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 debris is found. 2019: Altamira’s Year There was a response-generating issue.