# June 29

**June 29** is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.

## Events

### Up to 1900

* 226 – Cao Pi dies and his son Cao Rui succeeds him as Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei in present-day China.
* 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – King Sverre of Norway is crowned.
* 1534 – Jacques Cartier becomes the first-known European to reach Prince Edward Island.
* 1613 – The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
* 1644 – King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
* 1749 – New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
* 1786 – Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
* 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Athos.
* 1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
* 1855 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper is founded in London.
* 1863 – George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
* 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
* 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
* 1891 – National Forest Service is organized.
* 1891 – Street railway in Ottawa starts running.
* 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

### 1901 – 2000

* 1913 – The Second Balkan War begins.
* 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
* 1916 – The UK sentences Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement to death. He is executed on August 3.
* 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.
* 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns as Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
* 1933 – Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
* 1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
* 1939 – The state of Hatay becomes part of the Republic of Turkey.
* 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
* 1950 – At the 1950 FIFA World Cup, the United States national football team, through a goal from Joe Gaetjens, defeats the England national football team 1–0.
* 1956 – Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
* 1958 – Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, beating the host country Sweden 5–2 in the final.
* 1974 – Isabel Perón takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Perón is dying.
* 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
* 1975 – Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype Apple Inc. I computer.
* 1976 – The Seychelles become independent.
* 1986 – Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating West Germany 3–2.
* 1986 – Richard Branson sets the record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1995 – The Space Shuttle *Atlantis* docks with the Russian Space Station Mir.
* 1995 – In Seoul, South Korea, the Sampoong department store collapses, killing 501, and injuring 937 people.
* 1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is elected President of Iceland, taking office on August 1. He succeeds Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who decided not to run for election for a fifth time.

### From 2001

* 2002 – Naval clashes occur between North Korea and South Korea. 6 South Korean sailors are killed and a North Korean vessel is sunk.
* 2007 – Two explosive devices are found in cars outside nightclubs in London, UK.
* 2007 – The IPhone goes on sale in the United States.
* 2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland: The tournament is won by the Spain national football team, with a goal by Fernando Torres securing a 1–0 victory over the Germany national football team.
* 2009 – American financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for a multibillion Dollar fraud.
* 2009 – Tennis: Wimbledon Centre Court's new roof is used for the first time.
* 2014 – A building collapse in Delhi, India, kills at least 10 people, and another building collapse in Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu kills at least 17.
* 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

## Births

### Up to 1900

* 1139 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
* 1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
* 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
* 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
* 1516 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physician (d. 1585)
* 1528 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
* 1543 – Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
* 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
* 1609 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
* 1636 – Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
* 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
* 1782 – Christian Lyngbye, Danish minister and botanist (d. 1837)
* 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
* 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
* 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German writer (d. 1871)
* 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
* 1819 – Thomas Dunn English, American politician (d. 1902)
* 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
* 1845 – George W. Atkinson, American politician, 10th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1925)
* 1847 – Paul Flechsig, German neuranatomist (d. 1929)
* 1849 – John Hunn, American politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
* 1849 – Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
* 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
* 1858 – George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
* 1861 – Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
* 1865 (disputed) – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
* 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
* 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist, 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)
* 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
* 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician and statesman (d. 1963)
* 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
* 1889 – Willie McFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
* 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
* 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
* 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)

### 1901 – 1925

* 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
* 1901 – Putte Kock, Swedish footballer, ice hockey and contract bridge player (d. 1979)
* 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (d. 1942)
* 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1945)
* 1907 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese footballer (d. unknown)
* 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
* 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
* 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
* 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
* 1912 – Lucie Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2007)
* 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer and conductor (d. 1958)
* 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
* 1914 – Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
* 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
* 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (d. 2006)
* 1920 – César Rodriguez Alvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
* 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American movie maker (d. 2013)
* 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
* 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German publisher (d. 2009)
* 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
* 1924 – Philip H. Hoff, American politician, former Governor of Vermont (d. 2018)
* 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, 11th President of Italy

### 1926 – 1950

* 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
* 1926 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (d. 2009)
* 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
* 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
* 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
* 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
* 1933 – John Bradshaw, American author (d. 2016)
* 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
* 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
* 1941 – Kwame Ture, (born "Stokely Carmichael"), civil rights activist (d. 1998)
* 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
* 1943 – Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (d. 2017)
* 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
* 1944 – Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
* 1944 – Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (d. 2017)
* 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and former President
* 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
* 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
* 1948 – Ian Paice, British musician (Deep Purple)
* 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player
* 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, 116th Mayor of Barcelona

### 1951 – 1975

* 1951 – Don Rosa, American cartoonist
* 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
* 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
* 1957 – Michael Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
* 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
* 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
* 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
* 1959 – Atsushi Uchiyama, Japanese footballer
* 1959 – Gary Rydstrom, American sound designer
* 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
* 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
* 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
* 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
* 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1970 – Mike Vallely, American Professional Skateboarder
* 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
* 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American erotic actress
* 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
* 1971 – Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
* 1972 – Samantha Smith, American social activist and actress (d. 1985)

### From 1976

* 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
* 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American actress and singer (Pussycat Dolls)
* 1979 – Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
* 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh singer
* 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
* 1981 – Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine Formula One driver
* 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
* 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American musician
* 1984 – Emil Hallfredsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
* 1987 – Jena Lee, French singer
* 1988 – Troy Deeney, English footballer
* 1988 – Ever Banega, Argentine footballer
* 1988 – Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
* 1990 – Kim Little, Scottish footballer
* 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
* 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
* 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
* 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
* 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American dancer and actor
* 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor
* 1993 – Fran Kirby, English footballer
* 1993 – Lorenzo James Henrie, American actor
* 1994 – Shin Dong-ho, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
* 1994 – Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
* 2000 – Red Gerard, American snowboarder

## Deaths

### Up to 1900

* 226 – Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
* 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 995)
* 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
* 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
* 1509 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
* 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
* 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
* 1763 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (b. 1718)
* 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
* 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl von und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
* 1837 – Nathaniel Macon, American politician (b. 1758)
* 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French politician (b. 1775)
* 1852 – Henry Clay, United States Senator (b. 1777)
* 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
* 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
* 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
* 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and educator (b. 1825)
* 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
* 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)

### 1901 – 2000

* 1925 – Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)
* 1928 – Alvaro de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1878)
* 1933 – Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (b. 1893)
* 1933 – "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
* 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
* 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
* 1950 – Melitta Bentz, German businesswoman and inventor of the coffee filter (b. 1873)
* 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
* 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
* 1958 – Karl Arnold, German politician (b. 1901)
* 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
* 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
* 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
* 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
* 1977 – Magda Lupescu, former Queen of Romania (b. 1895)
* 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
* 1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
* 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
* 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian writer and murderer (b. 1950)
* 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
* 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
* 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
* 1999 – Karekin I, Catholicos (Head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)

### From 2001

* 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
* 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
* 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
* 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
* 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
* 2013 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
* 2014 – Damian D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1960)
* 2014 – Dermot Healy, Irish poet, novelist and actor (b. 1947)
* 2015 – Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
* 2015 – Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)
* 2015 – Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
* 2016 – Inocente Carreño, Venezuelan composer (b. 1919)
* 2016 – Vasyl Slipak, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1974)
* 2016 – Xu Jiatun, Chinese politician and dissident (b. 1916)
* 2016 – Gunnar Garbo, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
* 2016 – Ojo Maduekwe, Nigerian politician (b. 1945)
* 2017 – John Monckton, American swimmer (b. 1938)
* 2017 – Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (b. 1943)
* 2017 – Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
* 2018 – Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist and politician (b. 1951)
* 2018 – Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
* 2018 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist (b. 1923)
* 2018 – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian dancer and actress (b. 1932)
* 2019 – Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
* 2019 – Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)

## Observances

* Independence Day (Seychelles)
* Veterans Day (Netherlands)
* Roman Catholic Feast Day of Saint Peter and Paul