Portal:United States/On this day/June 29
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Events
- 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
- 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
- 2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
- 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
- 2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.
