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This day in history: 29 June

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406 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 29 June.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2014: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Cassius of Narni

Christian feast day: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances: Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)

Christian feast day: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances: l-Imnarja (Malta)

Christian feast day: Hemma of Gurk

Christian feast day: June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Mary, mother of John Mark

Engineer's Day (Ecuador)

Independence Day (Seychelles), celebrates the independence of Seychelles from the United Kingdom in 1976.

National Statistics Day (India)

Veterans' Day (Netherlands)

Events

2014The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

2012A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

2007Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

2006Hamdan 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.

2002Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

1995Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

1995The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.

1987Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.

1986The Argentina national football team wins the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico after defeating the West Germany national football team by a score of 3–2 in the final at the Estadio Azteca.

1976The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.

1976The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

1975Pope Paul VI ordains some 350 priests in St. Peter's Square in the largest ordination in history

1974Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.

1974Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.

1972A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.

1972The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

1971Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and

1956The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1952The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.

1950Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.

1945The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.

1927The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

1922France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".

1916British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

1915The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.

1913The Bulgarian army launches attacks against Serbian positions, triggering the Second Balkan War.

1889Hyde 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 at the time.

1888George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

1881In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.

1880France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".

1874Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

1864At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

1850Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.

1807Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.

1786Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

1764One of the strongest tornadoes in history strikes Woldegk, Germany, killing one person while leveling numerous mansions with winds estimated greater than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h).

1659At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.

1644Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.

1620English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.

1613The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.

Born on this day

2007Casey Phair, South Korean footballer

2006Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor

2003Jude Bellingham, English footballer

2002Matt Rempe, Canadian ice hockey player

2001Aaron Schoupp, Australian rugby league player

2001Gunnar Henderson, American baseball player

2001Julian Champagnie, American basketball player

1998Gjon's Tears, Swiss singer-songwriter

1998Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player

1996Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player

1994Camila Mendes, American actress and model

1994Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer

1993Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor

1993Oliver Tree, American singer-songwriter (died 2026)

1991Addison Timlin, American actress

1991Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player

1991Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer

1991Tajja Isen, Canadian actress and writer

1990Kim Little, Scottish footballer

1990Yann M'Vila, French footballer

1988Éver Banega, Argentine footballer

1986Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer

1986José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer

1985Quintin Demps, American football player

1984Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper

1983Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer

1983Jeremy Powers, American cyclist

1982Colin Jost, American comedian

1982Dusty Hughes, American baseball player

1982Lily Rabe, American actress

1982O. J. Hogans, American sprinter

1981Joe Johnson, American basketball player

1981Luke Branighan, Australian rugby league player

1981Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine race car driver (died 2005)

1981Shmuly Yanklowitz, American rabbi, author, and educator

1980Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano and actress

1979Andy O'Brien, English footballer

1979Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer

1979Matthew Bode, Australian footballer

1978Luke Kirby, Canadian actor

Died on this day

2025Sandy Gall, Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author (born 1927)

2024Princess Lalla Latifa, Princess Dowager of Morocco (born 1946)

2023Alan Arkin, American actor (born 1934)

2022Hershel W. Williams, American Marine Corps warrant officer, last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II (born 1923)

2021Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1932)

2020Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

2020Hachalu Hundessa, Ethiopian singer, songwriter (born 1986)

2020Stepa J. Groggs, American rap artist (born 1988)

2019Florijana Ismaili, Swiss footballer (born 1995)

2018Steve Ditko, American comic writer and illustrator (born 1927)

2017Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1957)

2017Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC from 1974 to his death (born 1943)

2016Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (born 1933)

2015Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (born 1927)

2015Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (born 1950)

2015Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (born 1931)

2014Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (born 1960)

2014Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1947)

2013Gilma Jiménez, Colombian politician (born 1956)

2013Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

2013Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (born 1922)

2013Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (born 1937)

2012Floyd Temple, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1926)

2012Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (born 1911)

2012Vincent Ostrom, American political scientist and academic (born 1919)

2012Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (born 1918)

2011K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic (born 1904)

2009Joe Bowman, American, target shooter and boot-maker (born 1925)

2007Fred Saberhagen, American soldier and author (born 1930)

2007Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (born 1943)

Quote of the day

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Lao Tzu

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