June 29

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 Raliere 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 Peron takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Peron 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 Vigdis Finnbogadottir, 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-Luneburg (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-Exupery, 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 Jose 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 Cesar 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 Perez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
1946 Egon von Furstenberg, 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 Jose 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
67 Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. 5)
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 Carreno, 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 Ponten, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)
Observances
Independence Day (Seychelles)
Veterans Day (Netherlands)
Roman Catholic Feast Day of Saint Peter and Paul
Days of the year