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What happened in history on this day: June 29?
On June 29 in ...
- 69 - Saint Peter dies.
- 512 - A monastic chronicler in Ireland records a solar eclipse.
- 1612 - In England, Virginia Company begins drawing tickets in a lottery sanctioned by King James I to raise funds for the Virginia colony in the New World. The drawing of all tickets ends July 20.
- 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, England burns down.
- 1767 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America.
- 1776 - Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
- 1776 - Virginia state constitution is adopted and Patrick Henry is made governor.
- 1805 - Birth of Hiram Powers; US sculptor (Greek Slave).
- 1858 - Birth of George Washington Goethals; engineer (built Panama Canal).
- 1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia.
- 1861 - Birth of William James Mayo; surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, USA.
- 1862 - Day five of the Seven Days - Battle of Savage's Station.
- 1863 - Birth of James Harvey Robinson in Bloomington, Illinois, USA; historian (Ordeal of Civilization).
- 1863 - Very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
- 1863 - Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed.
- 1865 - Birth of Shigechiyo Izumi; achieved oldest authenticated age (120 years, 237 days).
- 1865 - Birth of William E Borah; lawyer, American politician (Senator-Republican-Idaho).
- 1888 - The first known recording of classical music, Handel's Israel in Egypt, is made on wax cylinder.
- 1898 - In Near Islands, Alaska, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs.
- 1899 - Brazo River in Texas, USA, floods 12 miles wide causing $10 million in damage.
- 1900 - Birth of Antoine Saint-Exupéry in France; aviator/writer (Wind, Sand and Stars).
- 1901 - Birth of Frieda Inescort in Edinburgh, Scotland; actress (Pride and Prejudice).
- 1901 - Birth of Nelson Eddy; actor/baritone (Great Duets with Jeanette MacDonald).
- 1907 - Birth of Joan Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actress (I Married Joan).
- 1908 - Birth of John Hench, in Iowa, USA; joined Disney Studios in 1939 as artist and story editor, designed Disneyland projects, Walt Disney World plans, Tokyo Disneyland, Disney's California Adventure, Animal Kingdom, named a Disney Legend in 1990.
- 1909 - Birth of Leroy Anderson; US composer (Syncopated Clock).
- 1911 - Birth of Prince Bernhard in Germany; Constort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands.
- 1912 - Birth of José Pablo Moncayo Garcia in Guadalajara, México; composer (Huapango).
- 1914 - Birth of Rafael Kubelik in Bychory, Czechoslovakia; conductor (Cornelia Farooli).
- 1914 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani.
- 1915 - Birth of Ruth Warrick in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; singer, actress (Citizen Kane, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Peyton Place, Phoebe Tyler - All My Children).
- 1916 - Birth of Ruth Warwick in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; actress (All My Children, Peyton Place).
- 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.
- 1919 - Birth of Slim Pickens in Kingsburg, California, USA; actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles).
- 1922 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa.
- 1923 - Birth of Chou Wen-Chung Cheefoo in China; composer (Mode of Shang).
- 1923 - General JC Gomez, Venezuela's first Vice President, is assassinated.
- 1924 - Birth of Ezra Laderman in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Jacob and the Indians).
- 1925 - Birth of Cara Williams AKA Bernice Kamiat in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Pete and Gladys TV show, Cara Williams Show, Rhoda (1974)).
- 1927 - Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller is first tested.
- 1927 - First manned flight from West Coast of USA arrives in Hawaii.
- 1928 - Birth of Ian Bannen in Scotland; actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park).
- 1929 - First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed, at Langley Field, California, USA.
- 1929 - Birth of Johnny Ace in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; ballad singer ("My Song").
- 1929 - Birth of Peter George; American light middleweight (Olympic-gold-1952).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Evans; American actor/director (Best of Everything).
- 1931 - 109 degrees F (43 degrees C), Monticello, Florida (state record high).
- 1933 - Death of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; actor (Keystone Comedies, Mabel and Fatty).
- 1934 - Birth of Carl Levin; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Michigan).
- 1936 - Birth of David Jenkins; American figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1936 - Birth of Harmon Killebrew; baseball player (Minnesota Twins).
- 1936 - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV, 343 lines of picture definition.
- 1936 - Pope Pius XI issues encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures".
- 1938 - Birth of Billy Storm; singer (Valiants - "This is the Night").
- 1940 - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring aliens to register.
- 1941 - Vichy Government of France breaks diplomatic relations with Soviet Union.
- 1943 - Birth of Roger Ruskin Spear; rocker (Bonzo Dog Band - "Urban Spaceman").
- 1944 - Birth of Gary Busey in Goose Creek, Texas, USA; actor (The Buddy Holly Story, A Star in Born, Into the West, A Dangerous Life).
- 1945 - Birth of "Little" Eva Boyd; rock vocalist ("Locomotion").
- 1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR.
- 1945 - The Washington Post reports RAF officers found colossal airfield near Oslo, Norway, with 40 7000-mile range Heinkel bombers, which had been in preparation for bombing New York.
- 1946 - British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists.
- 1947 - Birth of Richard Lewis; comedian/actor (Anything But Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm).
- 1948 - Birth of Ian Paice; drummer (Deep Purple).
- 1948 - Birth of Fred Grandy in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actor (Gopher - The Love Boat), politician (Representive-Republican-Iowa), radio host.
- 1949 - Birth of Dan Dierdorf; NFL player, sportscaster (Monday Night Football).
- 1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages.
- 1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II.
- 1950 - First American combat troops arrive in the Republic of Korea.
- 1951 - ABC airs the last Pulitzer Prize Playhouse TV show.
- 1952 - First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - USS Oriskany.
- 1953 - Birth of Don Dokken; singer (Dokken).
- 1953 - Birth of Colin Hay; singer (Men At Work).
- 1954 - Atomic Energy Commission voted against, reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer.
- 1956 - Charles Dumas makes first high jump over 7 feet (2.13 metres) - Los Angeles, California.
- 1956 - The US Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1957 - Birth of Maria Conchita Alonso; actress (Saints and Sinners).
- 1958 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1959 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at age 51.
- 1959 - Pope John XXIII encyclical On truth, unity, and peace, in charity.
- 1960 - Birth of Sergey Kopylov in USSR; cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1961 - Launch of Transit 4a, with first nuclear power supply (SNAP-3).
- 1961 - Birth of Sharon Lawrence; actress (NYPD Blue, Ladies Man).
- 1962 - Birth of Amanda Donohoe; actress (LA Law).
- 1962 - First flight of Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner.
- 1963 - Birth of Anne-Sophie Mutter in Rheinfeldin, Germany; violinist (Berlin Philharmonic).
- 1964 - Birth of Pepper Johnson; NFL line backer (New York Giants).
- 1964 - Birth of Stedman Pearson; rocker (Five Star - "Silk and Steel").
- 1964 - US Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes after 83-day filibuster in Senate.
- 1966 - US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities.
- 1967 - Birth of Melora Hardin in Houston, Texas, USA; actress (Family Tree, Best Times, The Office).
- 1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
- 1967 - Death of Jayne Mansfield at age 34 in a car accident east of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress.
- 1969 - Death of Shorty Long at age 29, drowned when his boat capsizes off Sandwich Island in Ontario, Canada; soul singer, songwriter and Motown producer.
- 1969 - First Jewish worship service at White House, Washington, DC.
- 1970 - US ends two month military offensive into Cambodia.
- 1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days.
- 1972 - Birth of Samantha Smith in Houlton, Missouri, USA; actress (Elizabeth - Lime Street).
- 1972 - US Supreme Court rules death penalty usually was "cruel and unusual punishment".
- 1972 - USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km).
- 1975 - 20.57 cm (8.10 inches) of rainfall, Litchville, North Dakota (state 24-hour record).
- 1976 - Seychelles gains independence.
- 1978 - Birth of Todd Sansom; guitarist (Marshall Dyllon).
- 1978 - Birth of Nicole Scherzinger; American pop lead singer (Pussycat Dolls).
- 1978 - Death of Bob Crane at age 49, found murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; actor (Colonel Hogan - Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed Show).
- 1979 - Birth of Abs Breen, English singer (5ive).
- 1979 - Death of Lowell George at age 34, American rock musician (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat) (born 1945).
- 1980 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir is elected president of Iceland.
- 1982 - US Voting Rights Act of 1965 is extended.
- 1983 - Space shuttle Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base.
- 1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning Strategic Defence Initiative.
- 1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA.
- 1986 - Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver.
- 1986 - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at age 47.
- 1986 - Argentina defeats Federal Republic of Germany 3-2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
- 1986 - Sparky Anderson is first to win 600 games as manager in both American baseball leagues.
- 1988 - The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
- 1988 - Paramount releases the film Coming to America to theaters.
- 1990 - Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at age 74.
- 1990 - New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak.
- 1991 - In Canada, one person wins a Canadian record (for a single winner) CDN$13.9 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
- 1992 - A bodyguard assassinates President Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.
- 1994 - In Charlotte Pass, New South Wales, an Australian record cold temperature of -9.4 degrees F is recorded.
- 1995 - Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
- 1995 - American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. This is the second time ships from two countries had linked up in space.
- 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. Rock group The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
- 1998 - Death of Horst Jankowski at age 62 of lung cancer; German pianist ("A Walk In The Black Forest" (1965)).
- 2000 - Death of John Aspinall in England of cancer (born 1926); successful gambler, casino owner (the Clermont Club, Little Aspinall's, Curzon Club), private zookeeper.
- 2002 - Death of Rosemary Clooney at age 74 due to complications from lung cancer in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress, singer ("Come On-A My House", "Botch-A-Me", "Hey There", "Mambo Italiano").
- 2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
- 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago, Illinois.
- 2005 - Paramount releases the film War of the Worlds to theaters.
- 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigns after the political party of D'66 drops its support.
- 2006 - Women vote for the first time in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- 2007 - Apple's new iPhone is released in the USA.
- 2007 - Buena Vista releases the film Ratatouille to theaters.
- 2007 - In Asunción, Paraguay, the presidential summit of the Mercosur trade group is held.
- 2007 - British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.
- 2007 - Assassination attempt on prime minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire; three rockets hit his landed plane at Bouaké airport, killing four, wounding 14.
- 2007 - Death of George McCorkle, founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (born 1947).
- 2008 - Spain wins the Euro 2008 soccer championship defeating Germany 1-0.
- 2008 - Robert Mugabe is sworn in for a sixth term as Zimbabwe's president, after electoral officials declare him the country's run-off election.
- 2009 - Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for "extraordinarily evil" crimes in Wall Street's biggest and most brazen investment fraud.
- 2010 - The S&P 500 stock market index drops to its lowest level in eight months, 1050.47. The Dow Jones industrial average loses 268.22 points, or 2.65 percent, to 9,870.30. The Nasdaq Composite Index drops 85.47 points, or 3.85 percent, to 2,135.18.
- 2010 - China and Taiwan sign the Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement, removing tariffs on hundreds of products.
- 2011 - Paramount releases the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon to theaters.
- 2012 - At the Whitman Baltimore Coin and Collectibles Expo, Stack's Bowers Galleries auctions a 1907 Saint-Gaudens, Roman Numerals, Ultra High Relief, Lettered Edge gold $20 double eagle, PR-69 PCGS, for US$2.76 million.
- 2021 - The number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 3 billion.
- 2022 - Death of Sonny Barger at age 83; leader and president of Hells Angels motorcycle club.
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