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What Happened on June 29th This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
2012	A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2007	Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2006	Hamdan 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.
2002	Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
1995	Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995	The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
1987	Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
1976	The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976	The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
1974	Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.
1974	Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1972	The 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.
1972	A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.
1971	Prior 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 Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.
1956	The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1952	The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.
1950	Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
1945	The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
1927	The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1922	France 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".
1916	British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1915	The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1889	Hyde 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.
1888	George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1881	In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1880	France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
1874	Greek 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.
1864	At 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.
1850	Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1807	Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1786	Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1659	At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1644	Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
1620	English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
1613	The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
1534	Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1457	The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire
1444	Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1194	Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.
1149	Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
226	Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.

Famous People Born on June 29

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Year	Name
1961	Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer, and dancer
1928	Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1919	Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean (d. 2006)
1956	David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator and painter
1686	Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (d. 1743)
1998	Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
1944	Gary Busey, American actor
1956	Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1982	Lily Rabe, American actress
1873	Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)

Famous People Deaths On June 29

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Date	Name
1873	Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)
976	Gero, archbishop of Cologne
1990	Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2016	Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (b. 1933)[38]
1059	Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
1729	Edward Taylor, American-English poet, pastor, and physician (b. circa 1642)
1875	Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1981	Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter (b. 1912)
1374	Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer
1252	Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)