June 29

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 226 &ndash; Cao Pi dies and his son Cao Rui succeeds him as Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei in present-day China.
* 1149 &ndash; Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 &ndash; King Sverre of Norway is crowned.
* 1534 &ndash; Jacques Cartier becomes the first-known European to reach Prince Edward Island.
* 1613 &ndash; The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
* 1644 &ndash; King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
* 1749 &ndash; New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
* 1786 &ndash; Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
* 1807 &ndash; Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Athos.
* 1850 &ndash; Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
* 1855 &ndash; The Daily Telegraph newspaper is founded in London.
* 1863 &ndash; George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
* 1864 &ndash; Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
* 1880 &ndash; France annexes Tahiti.
* 1891 &ndash; National Forest Service is organized.
* 1891 &ndash; Street railway in Ottawa starts running.
* 1895 &ndash; Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1913 &ndash; The Second Balkan War begins.
* 1914 &ndash; Jina Guseva attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
* 1916 &ndash; The UK sentences Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement to death. He is executed on August 3.
* 1922 &ndash; France grants 1&nbsp;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 &ndash; Canada House opens in London.
* 1926 &ndash; Arthur Meighen returns as Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1927 &ndash; First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
* 1933 &ndash; Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
* 1937 &ndash; Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
* 1939 &ndash; The state of Hatay becomes part of the Republic of Turkey.
* 1945 &ndash; Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
* 1950 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
* 1958 &ndash; Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, beating the host country Sweden 5–2 in the final.
* 1974 &ndash; Isabel Perón takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Perón is dying.
* 1974 &ndash; Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
* 1975 &ndash; Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype Apple Inc. I computer.
* 1976 &ndash; The Seychelles become independent.
* 1986 &ndash; Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating West Germany 3–2.
* 1986 &ndash; Richard Branson sets the record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1995 &ndash; The Space Shuttle *Atlantis* docks with the Russian Space Station Mir.
* 1995 &ndash; In Seoul, South Korea, the Sampoong department store collapses, killing 501, and injuring 937 people.
* 1996 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Naval clashes occur between North Korea and South Korea. 6 South Korean sailors are killed and a North Korean vessel is sunk.
* 2007 &ndash; Two explosive devices are found in cars outside nightclubs in London, UK.
* 2007 &ndash; The IPhone goes on sale in the United States.
* 2008 &ndash; 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 &ndash; American financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for a multibillion Dollar fraud.
* 2009 &ndash; Tennis: Wimbledon Centre Court's new roof is used for the first time.
* 2014 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1139 &ndash; Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
* 1397 &ndash; John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
* 1475 &ndash; Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
* 1482 &ndash; Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
* 1516 &ndash; Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physician (d. 1585)
* 1528 &ndash; Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
* 1543 &ndash; Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
* 1596 &ndash; Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
* 1609 &ndash; Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
* 1636 &ndash; Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
* 1746 &ndash; Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
* 1782 &ndash; Christian Lyngbye, Danish minister and botanist (d. 1837)
* 1793 &ndash; Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
* 1798 &ndash; Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
* 1798 &ndash; Willibald Alexis, German writer (d. 1871)
* 1818 &ndash; Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
* 1819 &ndash; Thomas Dunn English, American politician (d. 1902)
* 1844 &ndash; Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
* 1845 &ndash; George W. Atkinson, American politician, 10th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1925)
* 1847 &ndash; Paul Flechsig, German neuranatomist (d. 1929)
* 1849 &ndash; John Hunn, American politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
* 1849 &ndash; Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
* 1849 &ndash; Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
* 1858 &ndash; George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
* 1861 &ndash; Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
* 1865 (disputed) &ndash; Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
* 1868 &ndash; George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
* 1873 &ndash; Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist, archaeologist (d. 1938)
* 1879 &ndash; Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
* 1880 &ndash; Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
* 1881 &ndash; Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (d. 1929)
* 1882 &ndash; Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
* 1886 &ndash; Robert Schuman, French politician and statesman (d. 1963)
* 1888 &ndash; Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
* 1889 &ndash; Willie McFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
* 1890 &ndash; Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
* 1893 &ndash; Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
* 1900 &ndash; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)

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

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
* 1926 &ndash; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (d. 2009)
* 1928 &ndash; Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
* 1929 &ndash; Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
* 1930 &ndash; Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
* 1931 &ndash; Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1932 &ndash; Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
* 1933 &ndash; John Bradshaw, American author (d. 2016)
* 1936 &ndash; Harmon Killebrew, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
* 1939 &ndash; Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
* 1941 &ndash; Kwame Ture, (born "Stokely Carmichael"), civil rights activist (d. 1998)
* 1943 &ndash; Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
* 1943 &ndash; Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Gary Busey, American actor
* 1944 &ndash; Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
* 1944 &ndash; Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (d. 2017)
* 1945 &ndash; Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and former President
* 1946 &ndash; Ernesto Pérez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
* 1946 &ndash; Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004) 
* 1948 &ndash; Ian Paice, British musician (Deep Purple)
* 1949 &ndash; Dan Dierdorf, American football player
* 1949 &ndash; Joan Clos i Matheu, 116th Mayor of Barcelona

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Don Rosa, American cartoonist
* 1952 &ndash; Joe Johnson, English snooker player
* 1956 &ndash; Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1957 &ndash; Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
* 1957 &ndash; Michael Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
* 1958 &ndash; Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
* 1958 &ndash; Dieter Althaus, German politician
* 1958 &ndash; Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
* 1959 &ndash; Atsushi Uchiyama, Japanese footballer
* 1959 &ndash; Gary Rydstrom, American sound designer
* 1961 &ndash; Sharon Lawrence, American actress
* 1962 &ndash; Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
* 1962 &ndash; George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
* 1963 &ndash; Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
* 1968 &ndash; Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1970 &ndash; Mike Vallely, American Professional Skateboarder
* 1971 &ndash; Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
* 1971 &ndash; Kaitlyn Ashley, American erotic actress
* 1971 &ndash; Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
* 1971 &ndash; Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
* 1972 &ndash; Samantha Smith, American  social activist and actress (d. 1985)

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Nicole Scherzinger, American actress and singer (Pussycat Dolls)
* 1979 &ndash; Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Katherine Jenkins, Welsh singer
* 1981 &ndash; Nino, Greek singer
* 1981 &ndash; Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine Formula One driver
* 1984 &ndash; Christopher Egan, Australian actor
* 1984 &ndash; Derek Lee Rock, American musician
* 1984 &ndash; Emil Hallfredsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1986 &ndash; José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Jena Lee, French singer
* 1988 &ndash; Troy Deeney, English footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Ever Banega, Argentine footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
* 1990 &ndash; Kim Little, Scottish footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Yann M'Vila, French footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
* 1991 &ndash; Addison Timlin, American actress
* 1992 &ndash; Adam G. Sevani, American dancer and actor
* 1993 &ndash; George Sampson, English dancer and actor
* 1993 &ndash; Fran Kirby, English footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Lorenzo James Henrie, American actor
* 1994 &ndash; Shin Dong-ho, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
* 1994 &ndash; Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
* 2000 &ndash; Red Gerard, American snowboarder

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

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1925 &ndash; Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)
* 1928 &ndash; Alvaro de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1878)
* 1933 &ndash; Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (b. 1893)
* 1933 &ndash; "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
* 1940 &ndash; Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
* 1941 &ndash; Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
* 1950 &ndash; Melitta Bentz, German businesswoman and inventor of the coffee filter (b. 1873)
* 1955 &ndash; Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
* 1957 &ndash; Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
* 1958 &ndash; Karl Arnold, German politician (b. 1901)
* 1967 &ndash; Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
* 1967 &ndash; Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
* 1969 &ndash; Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
* 1975 &ndash; Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
* 1977 &ndash; Magda Lupescu, former Queen of Romania (b. 1895)
* 1978 &ndash; Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
* 1992 &ndash; Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
* 1994 &ndash; Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
* 1994 &ndash; Jack Unterweger, Austrian writer and murderer (b. 1950)
* 1995 &ndash; Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
* 1997 &ndash; William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
* 1998 &ndash; Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
* 1999 &ndash; Karekin I, Catholicos (Head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
* 2002 &ndash; Rosemary Clooney, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
* 2003 &ndash; Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2006 &ndash; Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
* 2008 &ndash; Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
* 2013 &ndash; Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
* 2013 &ndash; Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Damian D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1960)
* 2014 &ndash; Dermot Healy, Irish poet, novelist and actor (b. 1947)
* 2015 &ndash; Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
* 2016 &ndash; Inocente Carreño, Venezuelan composer (b. 1919)
* 2016 &ndash; Vasyl Slipak, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1974)
* 2016 &ndash; Xu Jiatun, Chinese politician and dissident (b. 1916)
* 2016 &ndash; Gunnar Garbo, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
* 2016 &ndash; Ojo Maduekwe, Nigerian politician (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; John Monckton, American swimmer (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
* 2018 &ndash; Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist and politician (b. 1951)
* 2018 &ndash; Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
* 2018 &ndash; Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist (b. 1923)
* 2018 &ndash; Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian dancer and actress (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
* 2019 &ndash; Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)

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