July 29

The senate's co-emperors Pupienus and Balbinus were killed by the Praetorian Guard after a joint reign of only about ninety-nine days.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Sanskrit scholar and Bengal Renaissance reformer who championed widow remarriage and women's education, died in Kolkata.

Mahasi Sayadaw, the Burmese monk whose method of insight (vipassana) meditation spread widely across Asia and the West, was born in Seikkhun, Burma.

On 29 July 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law, establishing NASA; the new civilian space agency began operations that October.