June 29

June 29 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.

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.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 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.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 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.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 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 Controllable pitch propeller.
• 1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
• 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.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become 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.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 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 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - iPhone is released

Births

• 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 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 Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 - William Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
• 1863 - Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (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, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
• 1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1893 - Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 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)
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
• 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor
• 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
• 1925 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 - Radius Prawiro, Indonesia Finance Minister (d.2005)
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1931 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Robert Evans, American film producer
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
• 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
• 1934 - Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor
• 1935 - Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player
• 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 - John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
• 1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
• 1948 - Ian Paice, English drummer
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1949 - Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator
• 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
• 1953 - Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
• 1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 - Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 - George Zamka, American astronaut
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
• 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1967 - Murray Foster, Canadian musician
• 1967 - Melora Hardin, American actress, singer
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1969 - Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
• 1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1970 - Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 - Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 - Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
• 1977 - Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
• 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 - Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
• 1985 - Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
• 1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 - Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1992 - Adam G. Sevani, American actor
• 1993 - George Sampson, English dancer

Deaths

• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
• 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)
• 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
• 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)
• 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1960 - Frank Patrick, Canadian 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)
• 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
• 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1997 - William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
• 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (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)
• 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
• 2008 - Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - l-Imnarja
• Feast of 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 Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers
• Saint Cassius of Narni

External links

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