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June 29
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'''June 29''' is the 180th day of the year (181st in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.
Events
*
1149 -
Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the
Battle of Inab by
Nur ad-Din.
*
1194 -
Sverre of Norway Sverre is crowned
King of Norway.
*
1613 - The
Globe Theatre#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres Globe Theatre in
London,
England burns to the ground.
*
1644 -
Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the
Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
*
1749 - New Governor,
Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at
Isle Royale (
Cape Breton Island).
*
1786 -
Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic
highlanders leave
Scotland to settle in
Glengarry County,
Ontario.
*
1850 -
Coal is discovered on
Vancouver Island.
*
1863 -
George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
*
1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in
Canada's worst
railway disaster near
St-Hilaire,
Quebec.
*
1880 -
France annexes
Tahiti
*
1891 -
United States National Forest Service is organized.
*1891 - Street railway in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada, commences operation.
*
1895 -
Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
*
1905 -
Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the
San Francisco Giants New York Giants and the
Los Angeles Dodgers Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
*
1914 -
Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate
Grigori Rasputin at his home town in
Siberia.
*
1922 -
France grants 1 km² at
Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of
Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
*
1925 -
Canada House opens in
London,
England.
*
1927 - First test of
Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch
propeller.
*
1933 -
Italy Italian Boxing boxer Primo Carnera knockout knocked out American
Jack Sharkey to become the
List of heavyweight boxing champions heavyweight champion of the world.
*
1937 -
Joseph-Armand Bombardier of
Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
*
1945 -
Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by
Soviet Union
*
1950 - In
soccer,
United States men's national soccer team United States England v United States (1950) defeats England national football team England 1-0 in the
Football World Cup 1950 Football World Cup.
*
1976 - The
Seychelles becomes independent from the
United Kingdom.
*
1986 -
Argentina_national_football_team Argentina wins the {{Wc|1986}}
*
1995 - The
NASA Space Shuttle ''
STS-71 Atlantis'' docks with the
Russia Russian Mir space station for the first time.
*1995 - The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul,
South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
*
2000 - Vandals break into the tombs of
Lynyrd Skynyrd's
Ronnie Van Zant and
Steve Gaines.
*
2002 - President
George W. Bush chose to invoke the
25th amendment, temporarily transferring his powers to Vice President
Dick Cheney while Bush underwent a
colonoscopy.
Births
*
1397 - King
John II of Aragon (d.
1479)
*
1517 -
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d.
1585)
*
1596 -
Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d.
1680)
*
1798 -
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d.
1837)
*
1849 -
John Hunn, American businessman and politician (d.
1926)
*
1858 -
George Washington Goethals George Goethals, American army engineer (d.
1928)
*
1861 -
William Mayo, American physician and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d.
1939)
*
1865 -
Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (d.
1986)
*
1868 -
George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d.
1938)
*
1880 -
Ludwig Beck, German general (d.
1944)
*
1900 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d.
1944)
*
1901 -
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d.
1967)
*
1903 -
Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d.
1942)
*
1908 -
Leroy Anderson, American composer (d.
1975)
*
1910 -
Frank Loesser, American composer (d.
1969)
*
1911 -
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d.
2004)
*1911 -
Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d.
1975)
*
1914 -
Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d.
1996)
*
1915 -
Ruth Warrick, American actress (d.
2005)
*
1919 -
Slim Pickens, American actor (d.
1983)
*
1920 -
Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
*
1922 -
Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d.
1991)
*
1924 -
Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
*1924 -
Ezra Laderman, American composer
*
1926 -
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,
Emir of Kuwait (d.
2006)
*
1928 -
Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d.
1999)
*
1929 -
Pat Crawford Brown, American television and film actress
*
1932 -
Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
*
1933 -
Bob Shaw, baseball player
*1933 -
John Bradshaw (theologian) John Bradshaw, American educator, theologian, and author
*
1936 -
Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
*
1939 -
Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
*
1941 -
Kwame Ture (
Stokely Carmichael), American civil rights activist and
Black Panther member
*
1943 -
Little Eva, American singer (d.
2003)
*
1944 -
Gary Busey, American actor
*1944 -
Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
*
1945 -
Chandrika Kumaratunga,
President of Sri Lanka
*
1946 -
Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d.
2004)
*1946 -
Ernesto Pérez Balladares, President of Panama from 1994 to 1999
*
1949 -
Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
*1949 -
Ann Veneman, 27th
United States Secretary of Agriculture
*
1952 -
Joe Johnson (snooker player) Joe Johnson, English snooker player
*
1955 -
Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program, Johnson Space Center
*
1956 -
Pedro Santana Lopes,
Prime Minister of Portugal
*
1963 -
Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
*1963 -
Khalid El-Masri, German citizen imprisoned in the "War on Terror"
*
1964 -
Stedman Pearson, British singer
*
1965 -
Tripp Eisen, American musician (
Murderdolls,
Static-X, and
Dope (band) Dope)
*
1967 -
Jeff Burton, auto racer
*
1968 -
Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
*
1969 -
Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actors
*
1971 -
Kaitlyn Ashley, American actress
*1971 -
Matthew Good, Canadian musician and activist
*1971 -
Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
*
1972 -
Samantha Smith, American activist and actress (d.
1985)
*
1973 -
Kimberly Anne Guglielmo, murder victim (d.
1994)
*
1977 -
Oleg Korenfeld, Poet
*
1979 -
Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
*1979 -
Andrew O'Brien, Irish footballer
*
1980 -
Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
*1980 -
Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
Deaths
*
69 -
Saint Peter, Apostle and First
Bishop of Rome
*
1252 - King
Abel of Denmark (b.
1218)
*
1315 -
Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b.
1235)
*
1509 -
Margaret Beaufort, mother of
Henry VII of England (b.
1443)
*
1725 -
Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b.
1657)
*
1744 -
André Campra, French composer (b.
1660)
*
1764 -
Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b.
1693)
*
1852 -
Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b.
1777)
*
1861 -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b.
1806)
*
1873 -
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b.
1824)
*
1875 - Emperor
Ferdinand I of Austria (b.
1793)
*
1895 -
Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b.
1825)
*
1933 -
Roscoe Arbuckle Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b.
1887)
*
1940 -
Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b.
1879)
*
1941 -
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b.
1860)
*
1967 -
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b.
1933)
*1967 -
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b.
1906)
*
1979 -
Lowell George, American musician (b.
1945)
*
1992 -
Mohammed Boudiaf,
President of Algeria (assassinated) (b.
1919)
*
1993 -
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b.
1946)
*
1994 -
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b.
1908)
*
1995 -
Lana Turner, American actress (b.
1921)
*
1999 -
Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (b.
1937)
*
2000 -
Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b.
1922)
*
2002 -
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b.
1928)
*2002 -
Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b.
1931)
*
2003 -
Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b.
1907)
Holidays and observances
*
Seychelles - Independence Day
*Feast of Saints
Saint Peter Peter and
Paul of Tarsus Paul (also a local holiday in
Rome, of which they are patron saints)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
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May 29 -
July 29 --
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