Reuters historical calendar - July 29

London, July 28 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 29 since 1900.

1900 - Italy's King Umberto I was assassinated at Monza by anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

1948 - The first Olympic Games after World War Two opened at London's Wembley Stadium.

1967 - Fire killed 130 crew members aboard the US aircraft carrier Forrestal during the Vietnam War.

1968 - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled ''Humanae Vitae'' (Of Human Life), declared that the Roman Catholic Church prohibited all artificial forms of birth control.

1981 - Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

1983 - David Niven, dapper British film actor, died. He won an Oscar for his role in ''Separate Tables'' in 1958.

1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor, died. He appeared in films including ''Arsenic and Old Lace''.

1992 - Former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths at the Berlin Wall. Honecker had spent eight months in Chile's embassy in Moscow.

1993 - Israel's Supreme Court cleared John Demjanjuk of war crimes despite hearing evidence that he was known as ''Ivan the Terrible'' in Nazi prison camps.

2001 - US cyclist Lance Armstrong won the 2001 Tour de France to join an elite band of hat-trick winners and confirm his place as one of cycling's modern greats.

2003 - Belgium's lower house passed a bill to scrap a controversial war crimes law which gave Belgian courts the power to try war crimes cases no matter where they were committed.

2004 - British-born scientist Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of the DNA, died aged 88.

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