June 29
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[edit] Births
- 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
- 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
- 1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1861 - Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
- 1868 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
- 1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, world's oldest woman
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
- 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (d. 1969)
- 1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
- 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
- 1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
- 1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
- 1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
- 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
- 1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
- 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
- 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish Actor (d. 1999)
- 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
- 1943 - Little Eva, singer
- 1944 - Gary Busey, actor
- 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
- 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, prime minister of Portugal
- 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
- 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 - Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder
- 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, erotic actress
- 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
- 1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
[edit] Deaths
- 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress
[edit] Events
- 1613 - The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
- 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.
- 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
- 1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
- 1864 - Ninety-nine people 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 commences operation.
- 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union
- 1986 - Argentina wins the Football World Cup
