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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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.
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1749 - New
Governor,
Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at
Isle Royale (
Cape Breton Island).
*
1786 -
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred
Catholic highlanders leave
Scotland to settle in
Glengarry County,
Ontario.
*
1850 -
Coal is discovered on
Vancouver Island.
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1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in
Canada's worst
railway disaster near
St-Hilaire,
Quebec.
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1880 -
France annexes
Tahiti.
*
1891 - Street railway in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada, commences operation.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
*
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)
*
1803 -
John Newton Brown, American publisher, author and theologian (d.
1868)
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1849 -
John Hunn, American businessman and politician (d.
1926)
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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 (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)
*
1886 -
Robert Schuman, French politician (d.
1963)
*
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)
*
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 and lifetime senator
* 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 television and film actress
*
1930 -
Viola Léger,
Acadian-Canadian 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 (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 (
Men at Work)
*
1954 -
Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
*
1955 -
Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program, Johnson Space Center
*
1956 -
Pedro Santana Lopes,
Prime Minister of Portugal* 1956 -
Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
*
1958 -
Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
*
1960 -
Evelyn King, American singer
*
1962 -
Amanda Donohoe, British actress
*
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 actor
*
1971 -
Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
* 1971 -
Matthew Good, Canadian musician and activist
* 1971 -
Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
*
1972 -
Samantha Smith, American activist and actress (d.
1985)
*
1977 -
Oleg Korenfeld, poet
*
1978 -
Sam Farrar, American bassist
*
1979 -
Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
* 1979 -
Andrew O'Brien, Irish footballer
*
1980 -
Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
* 1980 -
Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
*
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)
*
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)
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Seychelles -
Independence Day.
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The Netherlands -
Veterans Day.
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
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Saint Hemma*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This DayJune 28 -
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