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.

[edit] Events

• 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 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 Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 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.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 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.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.

[edit] Births

• 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)
• 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 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)
• 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, 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
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
• 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
• 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 actress
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
• 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
• 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
• 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
• 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther member (d. 1998)
• 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
• 1947 - Richard Lewis, American Comedian
• 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
• 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
• 1960 - Evelyn King, American singer
• 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German mistaken for a suspected terrorist
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
• 1967 - Jeff Burton, auto racer
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 - Samantha Smith, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
• 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer, dancer, actress
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 - Andrew O'Brien, Irish footballer
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

[edit] 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)
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill, baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1960 - Frank Patrick, Professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (murdered) (b. 1928)
• 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 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)
• 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b.1919)

[edit] Holidays and observances

• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.

[edit] Liturgical Feasts

• Saints Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers
• Saint Hemma

[edit] External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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