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June 29June 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#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres 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. *1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general *1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire. *1880 - France annexes Tahiti *1891 - National Forest Service is organized. *1891 - Street railway in Ottawa 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. *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. * 1933 - Italy Boxing Primo Carnera knockout American Jack Sharkey to become the List of heavyweight boxing champions. *1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles. *1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union *1986 - Argentina wins the Football World Cup 1986 *1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 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 Washington 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 (snooker player), England snooker player *1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese former prime minister (2004-05) *1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist *1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canada ice hockey player *1970 - Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder *1971 - Anthony Hamilton, England snooker player *1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, erotic actress *1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist *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) *1620 - John Aerts, Flemish sculptor *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 - Roscoe 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo *1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, Algerian president (assassinated) *1993 - Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer (b. 1946) *1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (b. 1908) *1994 - Ray Crane, trumpeter *1995 - Lana Turner, actress (b. 1921) *1999 - Allan Carr, film producer, writer *2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italy 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 Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 28 - June 30 - May 29 - July 29 -- historical anniversaries fo:29. juni June 29--User:Maveric149 23:52, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 29 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 29 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_29_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- I like June 29 It is my b-day yea so if anyone has anything to say about that date and if it si a goood thing I let it pass but if anything bad you will be hunted down. 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