July 29

• July 29, 1613
  The Globe Theatre, a 20-sided timber building for Shakespeare's plays, is destroyed by fire during a performance of "Henry VIII", but no one is hurt
• July 29, 1693
  The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden in the Netherlands
• July 29, 1773
  A large earthquake destroys so much of Antigua that the Spanish move away and built a new capital on a plateau 30 miles away that becomes Guatemala City
• July 29, 1830
  Bourbon monarchy is overthrown during the July Revolution after attempt of Charles X to limit the political and civil rights, so the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, becomes constitutional monarch of France
• July 29, 1875
  Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Balkans rebel against the Ottoman army
• July 29, 1914
  Russia, an Serbia's ally, orders a troop mobilization against Austria-Hungary after Austro-Hungarian forces begin to shell the Serbian capital, Belgrade
• July 29, 1958
  United States President Dwight Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act creating NASA, the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program
• July 29, 1961
  Wallis and Futuna Islands becomes a French overseas territory
• July 29, 2003
  Second Liberian Civil War ends
• July 29, 2010
  Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, killing nearly 2,000 and leaving roughly a million homeless

March 22

• March 22, 1622
  First Indian massacre of whites in Jamestown led by the Powhatan chief Opechancanough results in 347 slain, a quarter of the population, triggering a costly 22-year war against the English
• March 22, 1638
  Anne Hutchinson, a religious dissident, is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony and moves to Rhode Island
• March 22, 1727
  Ismail Ibn Sharif, Moroccan ruler which have fathered 888 children through a harem of 500 women, dies
• March 22, 1733
  Joseph Priestly, an English theologian, invents carbonated water
• March 22, 1765
  The British government passes the Stamp Act, imposing a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the American colonies to help pay for troops stationed in North America
• March 22, 1775
  British statesman Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the House of Commons, urging the government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America
• March 22, 1802
  After a 20-day siege Dessalines and his 1,300 men are forced to abandon strategically important fort and go into the Cahos Mountains through the enemy lines being largely intact
• March 22, 1894
  Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game is played, the home team Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1
• March 22, 1914
  World's first scheduled airline, Saint Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line, begins
• March 22, 1957
  Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
• March 22, 1995
  Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to Earth after setting a record for 438 days in outer space
• March 22, 2006
  ETA, an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization, declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain