June 29

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
• 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach 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 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
• 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.
• 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
• 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 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement 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 are both opened.
• 1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the 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.
• 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
• 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.
• 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 at Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of London.

Births

• 1397 – King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Spanish-born wife of King Manuel I 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)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children's rights activist (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James 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)
• 1888 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
• 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 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
• 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 theatre 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-born American composer
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of the Republic
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1925 – Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of 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, Indonesian politician (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (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 (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Chuck Schaden, Chicago radio personality and historian
• 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 artist and 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 (Deep Purple)
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American illustrator
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathon runner
• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
• 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 (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bassist and double-bassist (Moxy Früvous, Great Big Sea)
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
• 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 singer (Matthew Good Band)
• 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 comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress
• 1979 – Abz Love (formerly known as Abs Breen), English DJ and singer (Five)
• 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 mezzo soprano
• 1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée, Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipino actress
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-born Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1988 – Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
• 1992 – Adam Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor
• 2008 – Prince Aristides Stavros of Greece and Denmark, Greek royality

Deaths

• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. c. 995)
• 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 – Lady 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 physician, scientist, inventor and humanitarian (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 biologist (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 – "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1949 – Themistoklis Sophoulis, Greek politician (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 saxophonist and clarinetist (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, wife 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)
• 2009 – Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker and showman (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Cassius of Narni
  • Feast of Saints Peter and Paul; a local holiday in Rome, and also for the Eastern Orthodox Church and diamond workers.
• Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
• l-Imnarja (Malta)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans Day (Netherlands)

External links

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