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On This Day, July 29
- 2024: Three children are stabbed to death and 10 other people injured at a dance studio in Southport, England. This incident, coupled with widespread online misinformation, leads to various racially motivated riots across the UK.
- 2021: The International Space Station temporarily spins out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of attitude, following an engine malfunction of Russian module Nauka.
- 2019: The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.
- 2015: The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island.
- 2013: Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.