June 29 in recent years
2009 (Monday)
2008 (Sunday)
2007 (Friday)
2006 (Thursday)
2005 (Wednesday)
2004 (Tuesday)
2003 (Sunday)
2002 (Saturday)
2001 (Friday)
2000 (Thursday)
June 29 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 184 days remaining until the end of the year.
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 .
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 .
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.
1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park , London , and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989 .
2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
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.
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 , founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939 )
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi , Japanese 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 )
1889 - Willie MacFarlane , Scottish golfer (d.1961 )
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 Major League 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 - Emile 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 )
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
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 (d. 2006 )
1930 - Viola Léger , Acadian -Canadian actress
1931 - Ed Gilbert , American acotor (d. 1999 )
1930 - Robert Evans , American film producer
1932 - Brian Hutton , British Law Lord
1933 - Bob Shaw , baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw , American theologian
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 - Stokely Carmichael , Black Panther member (d. 1998 )
1942 - Mike Willesee , Australian television presenter
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 , Panamanian politician
1947 - Richard Lewis , American comedian
1947 - Michael Carter , British actor
1948 - Ian Paice , drummer (Deep Purple )
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu , current mayor of Barcelona
1949 - Ann Veneman , 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1951 - Don Rosa , American ilustrator of Duck Donald.
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
1957 - María Conchita Alonso , Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957 - Robert Forster , Australian musician (The Go-Betweens )
1958 - Rosa Mota , Portuguese athlete
1958 - Jeff Coopwood , American actor, broadcaster and singer
1960 - Evelyn King , American singer
1961 - Kimberlin Brown , actress
1961 - Greg Hetson , American punk-rock guitarist
1961 - Sharon Lawrence , American actress
1962 - Amanda Donohoe , British actress
1962 - George Zamka , astronaut
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter , German violinist
1963 - Khalid El-Masri , German-born suspected terrorist
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
1968 - Theoren Fleury , Canadian hockey player
1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith , American actor
1969 - Claude Béchard , Quebec politician
1970 - Mike Vallely , American skateboarder
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley , American adult actress
1971 - Matthew Good , Canadian musician
1971 - Anthony Hamilton , English snooker player
1972 - Samantha Smith , American schoolgirl (d. 1985 )
1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi , Lebanese singer
1973 - George Hincapie , American cyclist
1977 - Oleg Korenfeld , poet
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
1980 - James Courtney , Australian racing driver
1981 - Joe Johnson , American basketball player
1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich , Argentine racing driver (d. 2005 )
1982 - Andrea Butjko , Hungarian porn star
1983 - Aundrea Fimbres , American singer (Danity Kane )
1984 - Han Ji-hye , South Korean actress and model
1984 - Derek Lee Rock , American drummer
1986 - Austin Drage , English singer.
1986 - Iya Villania , Filipina Acress
1987 - Yasuka Saitou , Japanese actor
Deaths [ ]
1059 - Bernard II
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 )
1934 - Zaro Aga , 157 years ago.(b.1777 )
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 )
1958 - Charles Spencelayh , English painter (b. 1865 )
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 )
1973 - Germán Valdés , Mexican actor (b. 1915 )
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 (Little Feat ) (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 (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 (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 , Argentinean 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 )
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138 Familypedia people were born on June 29
159 Familypedia people died on June 29
83 Familypedia people were first married on June 29