June 29

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 - Sampoong Department Store in the Kangnam district of Seoul, South Korea collapses, 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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