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Date Event Anniversary
July 29, 2010 Malawi adopted a new national flag, replacing the previous flag which was originally adopted in 1964 0 year ago
July 29, 2010 Moscow recorded its hottest ever temperature, surpassing the century mark for the first time in recorded history. The high temperature of 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius) was recorded at the Moscow Observatory, breaking the previous record high of 99.5 F (37.5 C) set just three days before as the city sweltered through a heatwave in the hottest summer since records began in 1879 0 year ago
July 29, 2009 Venezuela froze diplomatic ties with Colombia, after Bogota said Swedish weapons sold to Venezuela in the 1980s were allegedly found on Colombian FARC rebels 1 year ago
July 29, 2008 Two Russian manned mini submarines reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, descending 1,680 metres to the bed of the world’s deepest lake in a new record for freshwater submersion. Formed 25 million years ago, Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of the world’s total unfrozen freshwater and is home to many rare species, including the world’s only indigenous freshwater seal 2 years ago
July 29, 2007 Britain’s Met Office reported that England had suffered its wettest July on record. Some 129mm (5.07in) of rain fell up to July 29, beating the previous record of 126.5mm (4.98in) set in 1936. The average rainfall across the whole of the UK was 135.7mm (5.34in), 95 percent higher than the long-term average of 69.6mm (2.74in), making it the second wettest on record. July saw widespread flooding in central and southern England, with thousands of homes flooded across several counties 3 years ago
July 29, 2007 Spain’s Alberto Contador won the 2007 Tour de France in a race marred yet again by doping controversies, with three riders and two teams withdrawn during the race following positive doping tests, including pre-race favourite Alexandre Vinokourov and his Astana team. After Stage 16, race leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark was removed from the Tour and sacked by his Rabobank team, who accused him of lying about the reasons for missing several drug tests earlier in the year 3 years ago
July 29, 2007 Iraq beat Saudi Arabia to win the Asian Cup soccer tournament, creating a rare moment of recent national unity 3 years ago
July 29, 2005 Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology revealed the discovery of an object larger than Pluto and three times as far away. The object, eventually named Eris, was classified in August 2006 as a dwarf planet 5 years ago
July 29, 2004 British-born scientist Francis Crick, who with American colleague James Watson helped to discover the double helix structure of DNA, died at the age of 88. Crick and Watson unveiled their model of the double helix at Cambridge University in 1953 and were later awarded the Nobel Prize for their work. Their landmark scientific paper, published in the journal “Nature” in 1953, began with an unassuming pair of sentences: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest" 6 years ago
July 29, 2004 Pakistan announced it had captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaeda member sought by the U.S. in connection with the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Ghailani was reportedly providing “very valuable information” 6 years ago
July 29, 2001 U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the third consecutive year 9 years ago
July 29, 2001 Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in elections to the upper house of parliament. Koizumi had promised to reform the party, whose close relationship with big business had led to a number of major scandals 9 years ago

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