What happened on June 29? There are more than 309 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 29
June 29 is the 181st day of the year 2024. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 26th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Flint, Michigan 48559 sunrise will occur at 05:57 AM and sunset will occur at 09:19 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 214 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 29
- 226Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1194Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1534Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1644Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1659At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- 1786Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1807Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1850Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 1864Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1874Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
- 1880France annexes Tahiti.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1895Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1914Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1916The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1922France 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”.
- 1926Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1927First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1928The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- 1945Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1950The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
- 1956The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1972The U.S. 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.
- 1974Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
- 1974Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
- 1976The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
- 2002Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
- 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.
- 2009Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.
Who Were Born On June 29?
- 1136Petronilla, Queen of Aragon (d. 1173)
- 1398King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1475Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
- 1482Maria of Aragon, Spanish-born wife of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1517)
- 1517Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
- 1596Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746Joachim Heinrich Campe, German writer and linguist (d. 1818)
- 1793Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
- 1798Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
- 1798Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
- 1803John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
- 1818Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
- 1844Peter I, King of Serbia, founding father of Yugoslavia (d. 1921)
- 1849John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
- 1849Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
- 1849Sergei Witte, Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1915)
- 1858George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1858Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children’s rights activist (d. 1932)
- 1861William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
- 1863Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
- 1865Shigechiyo Izumi, oldest man ever, who lived to be 120 years 237 days old (d. 1986)
- 1866Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
- 1868George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1873Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
- 1879Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
- 1879Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian writer (d. 1942)
- 1880Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
- 1881Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1881Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
- 1882Franz Seldte, Nazi politician (d. 1947)
- 1886James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
- 1886Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
- 1888Joseph ‘Squizzy’Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
- 1889Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
- 1890Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- 1893Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
- 1893Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
- 1897Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
- 1900Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1901Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1903Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
- 1903Paul Newlan, American actor d. 1973
- 1906Heinz Harmel, German SS General (d. 2000)
- 1906Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
- 1908Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1910Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1910Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1911Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
- 1911Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
- 1912Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- 1912John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
- 1912José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer (d. 1958)
- 1914Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
- 1914Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
- 1914Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
- 1915Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1919Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
- 1919Lloyd Richards, American theatre director (d. 2006)
- 1919Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1920César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
- 1920Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
- 1921Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
- 1921Harry Schell, American racecar driver (d. 1960)
- 1921Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
- 1922Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
- 1923Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born American composer
- 1924Ezra Laderman, American composer
- 1924Flo Sandon’s, Italian singer (d. 2006)
- 1925Cara Williams, American actress
- 1925Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
- 1925Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of the Republic
- 1925Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
- 1926Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- 1928Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
- 1928Radius Prawiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2005)
- 1929Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
- 1929Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
- 1930Robert Evans, American film producer
- 1930Sławomir Mrożek, Polish writer
- 1930Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
- 1931Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1932Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
- 1933Bob Shaw, baseball player
- 1933John Bradshaw, American theologian
- 1934Chuck Schaden, Chicago radio personality and historian
- 1934Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor (d. 2010)
- 1935Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
- 1936Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1939Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
- 1939Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1939Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (d. 2002)
- 1940Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
- 1941John Boccabella, American baseball player
- 1941Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
- 1941Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
- 1942Gilberto Gil, Brazilian musician and politician
- 1942Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
- 1943Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1944Gary Busey, American actor
- 1944Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
- 1945Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
- 1946Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
- 1946Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
- 1947Michael Carter, British actor
- 1947Richard Lewis, American comedian
- 1948Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
- 1948Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
- 1949Ann Veneman, American politician
- 1949Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
- 1951Don Rosa, American illustrator
- 1953Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
- 1953Don Dokken, American musician (Dokken)
- 1954Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1954Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
- 1955Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
- 1955Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
- 1956Nick Fry, CEO of Mercedes GP Formula One team
- 1956Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
- 1956Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister
- 1957Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
- 1957María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
- 1957Michael Nutter, American politician
- 1957Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
- 1958Dieter Althaus, German politician
- 1958Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
- 1958Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
- 1958Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathon runner
- 1961Greg Hetson, American guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
- 1961Kimberlin Brown, American actress
- 1961Sharon Lawrence, American actress
- 1962Amanda Donohoe, British actress
- 1962George Zamka, American astronaut
- 1962Joan Laporta, Spanish politician
- 1963Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
- 1963Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
- 1964Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
- 1965Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
- 1965Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
- 1966John Part, Canadian darts player
- 1966Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
- 1967Jeff Burton, American racing driver
- 1967Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
- 1967Murray Foster, Canadian bassist and double-bassist (Moxy Früvous, Great Big Sea)
- 1967Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
- 1968Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
- 1968Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
- 1969Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
- 1969Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1969Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
- 1970Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
- 1970Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
- 1971Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1971Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
- 1971Matthew Good, Canadian singer (Matthew Good Band)
- 1972DJ Shadow, American music producer and DJ
- 1972Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
- 1972Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
- 1973George Hincapie, American cyclist
- 1976Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
- 1976Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
- 1977Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1977Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
- 1978Nicole Scherzinger, American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress
- 1978Sam Farrar, American bassist (Phantom Planet)
- 1979Abz Love (formerly known as Abs Breen), English DJ and singer (Five)
- 1979Andy O'Brien, English footballer
- 1979Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1979Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
- 1979Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
- 1980Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
- 1980Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
- 1980Mel Peachey, British television personality
- 1981Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver
- 1981Joe Johnson, American basketball player
- 1981Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1981Nino, Greek singer
- 1982Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
- 1982Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- 1983Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1983Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
- 1984Christopher Egan, Australian actor
- 1984Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée, Suburban Legends)
- 1984Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
- 1985Quintin Demps, American football player
- 1986Edward Maya, Romanian musician
- 1986Iya Villania, Filipino actress
- 1986José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
- 1987Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
- 1987Luke McLean, Australian-born Italian rugby player
- 1987Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
- 1988Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
- 1988Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
- 1988Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
- 1990Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
- 1990Yann M'Vila, French footballer
- 1991Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
- 1992Adam Sevani, American actor and dancer
- 1993George Sampson, English dancer and actor
Who Died On June 29?
- 226Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 187)
- 1059Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. c. 995)
- 1149Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch
- 1252King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
- 1315Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
- 1509Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
- 1575Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1514/5)
- 1725Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
- 1744André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
- 1764Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
- 1779Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
- 1831Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer (b. 1757)
- 1840Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
- 1852Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
- 1853Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
- 1855John Gorrie, American physician, scientist, inventor and humanitarian (b. 1802)
- 1860Thomas Addison, English physician and scientist (b. 1793)
- 1861Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
- 1873Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
- 1875Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
- 1895Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
- 1895Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
- 1900Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
- 1907Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
- 1919José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
- 1921Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- 1931Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
- 1933Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1935Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
- 1936János Szlepecz, Slovene writer and priest (b. 1872)
- 1940Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1941Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
- 1942Paul Troje, German politician (b. 1864)
- 1949Themistoklis Sophoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
- 1951Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
- 1955Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
- 1957Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
- 1958Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
- 1960Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
- 1964Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1928)
- 1967Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
- 1967Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- 1969Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
- 1969Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
- 1973Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
- 1975Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1977Magda Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
- 1978Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1979Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
- 1982Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
- 1982Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
- 1990Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1992Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
- 1993Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
- 1994Jack Unterweger, Austrain serial killer (b. 1950)
- 1994Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
- 1995Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1997William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1998Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
- 1999Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
- 1999Karekin I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
- 2000Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 2002François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
- 2002Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2002Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
- 2003Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2004Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
- 2006Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
- 2006Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
- 2006Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
- 2007Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
- 2007Fred Saberhagen, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1930)
- 2007Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
- 2008Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
- 2009Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker and showman (b. 1925)
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