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July 29: Torch Festival in China (2024)

Cape Cod Canal

1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Byzantine forces defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the mountains of Belasica near present-day Klyuch.
1693 – Nine Years' War: French troops defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance led by William III of England at the Battle of Landen in present-day Neerwinden, Belgium.
1818 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.
1914 – The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis.
1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.

Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz (b. 1859)
Isidor Isaac Rabi (b. 1898)
Jaojoby (b. 1955)
Virginia S. Baker (d. 1998)

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2000: Favaloro, René Gerónimo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Favaloro). Fabian Cremaschi190.15.194.122 (talk) 13:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]