Today is Monday, July 29: the 211th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The year will end in 155 days.
The sun will rise at 4:30 Moscow time, and at 20:43 it will go below the horizon. At 12:37 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 16 hours 12 minutes, and darkness will last 7 hours 48 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 6 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the holy martyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Pydahfoi, and his ten disciples.
Name days: Alevtina (Valentina), Afinogen, Jacob, John, Julia, Matrona, Pavel, Peter, Theodore.
Secular holidays
July 29 is International Tiger Day. Moldova celebrates Constitution Day today.
This day celebrates NASA's Birthday, Lasagna Day and Alcohol Tree Day.
Events of July 29
In 1586 the city of Tyumen was founded.
In 1954, the first part of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" was published.
In 1974, the head of the KGB of the USSR, Yuri Andropov, created the Alpha Group to combat terrorism.
In 2015, Microsoft introduced the new operating system Windows 10.
In 2023, the Niger crisis began.
Who was born on July 29
In 1817, the artist Ivan Aivazovsky was born.
In 1883, Benito Mussolini was born.
In 1954, composer and People's Artist of Russia Igor Krutoy was born.
In 1963, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, opera singer Olga Borodina was born.
In 1972, actor Sergei Gorobchenko was born.
Folk omens
A thick fog has descended in the morning – in the autumn it will be possible to collect a lot of mushrooms.
Field mice eat crops – the winter will be harsh.
The carrot tops have drooped – it will rain.
A yellow sunset foretells damp weather.
