June 29

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.

Events

• 1613 – The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
• 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 discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1864 – Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
• 1880 – France annexes Tahiti
• 1891 – Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
• 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 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.
• 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
• 1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1986 – Argentina wins the Football World Cup
• 1995 – The Sampoong department store collapses in the Kangnam district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.

Births

• 1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1858 – George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 – Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, world's oldest woman
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, composer (d. 1969)
• 1911 – Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Ruth Warrick, actress
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, film maker
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, publisher
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish Actor (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1941 – Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
• 1943 – Little Eva, singer
• 1944 – Gary Busey, actor
• 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, prime minister of Portugal
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1971  – Kaitlyn Ashley, erotic actress
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress

Deaths

• 67 – St. Peter, apostle (traditional) (crucified)
• 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 – Ramon Llull, philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (b. 1806)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist (b. 1825)
• 1933 – Fatty Arbuckle, actor (b. 1887)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, actress (b. 1933)
• 1979 – Lowell George, musician (b. 1945)
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 – Moise Thsombe, Premier of Congo
• 1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, Algerian president (assassinated)
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Lana Turner, actress (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, film producer, writer
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, actress (b. 1907)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles – Independence Day
• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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