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June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.
Events
1600-1899
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.
1900-1999
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 collapsed, killing 502 and injuring 937.
Births
1500-1899
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, lyricist (d. 1837)
1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 - Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1868 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
1900-1999
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
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
1300-1899
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)
1900-1999
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
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
2000-2099
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
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
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