July 29 in history: • 1567 – The infant James VI was crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. → go there • 1818 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light. → go there • 1900 – Italian anarchist Gaetano Bresci (pictured) assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza. → go there • 1911 – In a case later termed a "legal lynching", Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and death sentence against 15-year-old León Martínez Jr., five days after his arrest for killing a white woman. → go there • 1950 – Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri. → go there Died 1095: Ladislaus I of Hungary Wiki link Born 1846: Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil Wiki link Born 1982: Allison Mack Wiki link Died 2009: Gayatri Devi Wiki link Pictured: Gaetano Bresci.