Historical Events for 29th July 2025

1221 – Emperor Go-Horikawa, aged only 10 years old, ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England
1923 – Albert Einstein speaks about pacifism in Berlin
1940 – SV Urk Dutch soccer team forms
1973 – Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
1990 – South Africa Communist Party begins first legal conference
1994 – Jesse Timmendequas rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7, resulting in Megan’s Law
2018 – Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party claims to have won all 125 seats in the country’s general election amid widespread criticism of a sham vote

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