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• ... that singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?
• ... that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term, describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual?
• ... that Norwegian Parliament member, Minister of the Navy and Counter Admiral Henrik Steffens Hagerup was also the father of later Norwegian Prime Minister Francis Hagerup?
• ... that in the 1981 Nepalese national election, one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
• ... that the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina?
• ... that ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
• ... that Elaine Stritch's appearance as Colleen Donaghy, in the 30 Rock episode "Hiatus", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series?
  

• Two bombs explode in Istanbul, Turkey, killing at least seventeen and injuring more than 150.
• In cycling, Carlos Sastre (pictured) of Spain wins the 2008 Tour de France.
• A series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, India, kills at least forty-five people and injures over one hundred, one day after a similar attack in Bangalore.
• Kapiliele Faupala is crowned the new King of Wallis (Uvea), succeeding the late Tomasi Kulimoetoke II in Wallis and Futuna.
• The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee.
• Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

July 29: Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands; National Anthem Day in Romania

• 1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria.
• 1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an Unequal Treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges.
• 1947 – ENIAC (pictured), the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, remaining in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
• 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA.
• 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched Diana Spencer marry Charles, Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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