Today's selected anniversaries: 29th July 2026

 Today's selected anniversaries: 29th July 2026

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin-Jean_Fresnel

1900:

Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King
Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci

1911:
 
In a case later termed a "legal lynching", Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and death sentence against 15-year-old León
Martínez Jr., five days after his arrest for killing a white woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_P._Brady

1950:

Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre
of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre

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