June 29

Events

Pre-1600

* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.
* 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
* 1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire
*1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

1601–1900

*1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
*1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
*1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
*1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
* 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
*1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
*1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
* 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.
* 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.
*1880 – France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
*1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
*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.
*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.

1901–present

*1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
*1916 – British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
* 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".
*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.
*1945 – The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
*1950 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
*1952 – The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.
* 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.
* 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.
*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.
* 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.
*1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1976 – The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
*1987 – Vincent van Gogh's painting, the ''Le Pont de Trinquetaille'', is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
*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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
*2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
*2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
* 1326 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1389)
*1398 – John II of Aragon and Navarre (d. 1479)
*1443 – Anthony Browne, English knight (d. 1506)
*1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
*1488 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (d. 1560)
*1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
*1525 – Peter Agricola, German humanist, theologian, diplomat and statesman (d. 1585)
* 1528 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
*1543 – Christine of Hesse, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1604)
* 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)

1601–1900

*1621 – Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (d. 1669)
*1686 – Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (d. 1743)
*1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, author, and educator (d. 1818)
*1768 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (d. 1831)
*1787 – Lavinia Stoddard, American poet, school founder (d. 1820)
*1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
*1798 – Willibald Alexis, German author and poet (d. 1871)
* 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
*1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (d. 1850)
*1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
*1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1878)
*1819 – Thomas Dunn English, American poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1902)
* 1833 – Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (d. 1900)
*1835 – Celia Thaxter, American poet and story writer (d. 1894)
* 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
*1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
* 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
* 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
*1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
* 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American activist and politician (d. 1932)
*1861 – William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
*1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
*1866 – Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (d. 1939)
*1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (d. 1938)
*1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
*1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
* 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
*1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
*1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
* 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (d. 1959)
*1882 – Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
* 1882 – Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (d. 1947)
* 1885 – Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (d. 1941)
*1886 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
*1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
*1889 – Willie Macfarlane, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1961)
* 1890 – Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (d. 1970)
* 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
*1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (d. 1972)
* 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator (d. 1958)
*1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001)
*1898 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
*1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)

1901–present

*1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
*1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
*1904 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1956)
*1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
* 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
* 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
* 1908 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
*1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
* 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
*1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
* 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
* 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
* 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
* 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist and academic (d. 2004)
* 1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
*1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
*1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
* 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic (d. 1976)
*1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and activist (d. 2005)
*1917 – Ling Yun, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
* 1918 – Heini Lohrer

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