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29 July

🇮🇳 In India

1891 Famous social reformer, educationist and freedom fighter Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar died.

1987 Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.

1987 Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright died.

1996 Aruna Asaf Ali, one of the prominent women who contributed to the Indian freedom struggle, died in Kolkata.

2009 One of India’s last queens, Maharani Gayatri Devi died at age 90. She was feted as an international style icon and spent time in jail after she became a politician. Devi had married the Maharaja of Jaipur in 1939, becoming a member of the royal family that effectively ruled the city of Jaipur and the surrounding area of Rajasthan state. She became a successful politician winning a seat in parliament in 1962 and retaining it twice in elections.

🌎 Elsewhere

1883 Benito Mussolini, Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party, was born.

1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died two days following a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, while painting "Wheatfield with Crows".

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England.

1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1948 The XIV Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom after a 12 year hiatus due to the Second World War. The last Summer Olympics before this were held in Berlin in 1936.

1954 Publication of Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien.

1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency, which aims to ban the use of nuclear energy for military purposes, was established.

1981 Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Lady Diana Spencer.

⭐ Significance

Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day, is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on 29 July. It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.

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