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.
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Events
- 1613 - The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
- 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 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.
- 1880 - France annexes Tahiti
- 1891 - National Forest Service is organized.
- 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
- 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 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.
- 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
- 1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
- 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union
- 1986 - Argentina wins the Football World Cup
- 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
Births
- 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
- 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
- 1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1861 - Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
- 1868 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
- 1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, world's oldest woman
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
- 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (d. 1969)
- 1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
- 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
- 1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
- 1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
- 1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
- 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
- 1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
- 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
- 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish Actor (d. 1999)
- 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
- 1943 - Little Eva, singer
- 1944 - Gary Busey, actor
- 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
- 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese former prime minister (2004-05)
- 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
- 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 - Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder
- 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, erotic actress
- 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
- 1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
Deaths
- 67 - St. Peter, apostle (traditional) (crucified)
- 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
- 1315 - Ramon Llull, philosopher (b. 1235)
- 1620 - John Aerts, Flemish sculptor
- 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)
- 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (b. 1806)
- 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist (b. 1825)
- 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (b. 1887)
- 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
- 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
- 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (b. 1933)
- 1979 - Lowell George, musician (b. 1945)
- 1967 - Primo Carnera, boxer (b. 1906)
- 1969 - Moise Thsombe, Premier of Congo
- 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, Algerian president (assassinated)
- 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer (b. 1946)
- 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (b. 1908)
- 1994 - Ray Crane, trumpeter
- 1995 - Lana Turner, actress (b. 1921)
- 1999 - Allan Carr, film producer, writer
- 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (b. 1928)
- 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (b. 1907)
Holidays and observances
- Seychelles - Independence Day
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29)
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