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
- 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
- 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1613 - The 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 New York Giants and the 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 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the 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 defeats England 1-0 in the Football World Cup.
- 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1986 - Argentina wins the Template:Wc
- 1995 - The NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the 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.
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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 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, American educator, theologian, and author
- 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
- 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
- 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
- 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, 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)
- 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
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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 - 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)
- 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (murdered) (b. 1928)
- 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)
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Holidays and observances
- Seychelles - Independence Day
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
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External links
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