Today June 29th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
1149 – Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 – The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1749 – New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1850 – Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 – Greek 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.
1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
1888 – First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel s Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 – Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 – France 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.
1925 – Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull s Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 – Isabel 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.
1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
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-gu 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.
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.
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 – Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2007 – iPhone is released
Births
1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 – Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 – William Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)
1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1919 – Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
1924 – Flo Sandon s, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor
1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
1925 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (d. 1999)
1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesia Finance Minister (d.2005)
1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer
1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor
1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player
1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
1944 – Sean O Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 – Michael Carter, British actor
1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian
1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer
1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
1951 – Don Rosa, American ilustrator
1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
1955 – Terence M. O Sullivan, American activist
1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
1956 – Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
1957 – Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 – Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress
1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer
1965 – Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress, singer
1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist
1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
1979 – Abs Breen, English singer
1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1979 – Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 – Austin Drage, English singer
1986 – Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor
1993 – George Sampson, English dancer
Deaths
1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1509 – Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
1855 – John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 – Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1935 – Jack O Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1969 – Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1977 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1979 – Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
Seychelles – Independence Day.
The Netherlands – Veterans Day.
Malta – l-Imnarja
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers
Saint Cassius of Narni
