June 29rd Events |
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| June 29th, 2008 (June 29 2008) | Event | Thomas Beatie, the world s first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter. | |
| June 29th, 2007 (June 29 2007) | Event | Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus. | |
| June 29th, 2007 (June 29 2007) | Event | iPhone is released in the U.S. | |
| June 29th, 2006 (June 29 2006) | Event | 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. | George W. Bush Quotes |
| June 29th, 2002 (June 29 2002) | Event | Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. | |
| June 29th, 2002 (June 29 2002) | Event | 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. | George W. Bush Quotes |
| June 29th, 1995 (June 29 1995) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.) | |
| June 29th, 1995 (June 29 1995) | Event | The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. | |
| June 29th, 1976 (June 29 1976) | Event | The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom. | |
| June 29th, 1974 (June 29 1974) | Event | Isabel Peron 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. | |
| June 29th, 1972 (June 29 1972) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment". | |
| June 29th, 1956 (June 29 1956) | Event | The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. | |
| June 29th, 1945 (June 29 1945) | Event | Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union. | |
| June 29th, 1937 (June 29 1937) | Event | Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles. | |
| June 29th, 1927 (June 29 1927) | Event | First test of Wallace Turnbull s Controllable pitch propeller. | |
| June 29th, 1926 (June 29 1926) | Event | Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. | |
| June 29th, 1925 (June 29 1925) | Event | Canada House opens in London, England. | |
| June 29th, 1922 (June 29 1922) | Event | France grants 1 km? at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes." | |
| June 29th, 1916 (June 29 1916) | Event | Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising. | |
| June 29th, 1914 (June 29 1914) | Event | Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. | |
| June 29th, 1895 (June 29 1895) | Event | Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. | |
| June 29th, 1891 (June 29 1891) | Event | Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation. | |
| June 29th, 1888 (June 29 1888) | Event | First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel s Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder. | |
| June 29th, 1880 (June 29 1880) | Event | France annexes Tahiti. | |
| June 29th, 1874 (June 29 1874) | Event | 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. | |
| June 29th, 1864 (June 29 1864) | Event | Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. | |
| June 29th, 1850 (June 29 1850) | Event | Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island. | |
| June 29th, 1850 (June 29 1850) | Event | Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece. | |
| June 29th, 1786 (June 29 1786) | Event | Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. | |
| June 29th, 1749 (June 29 1749) | Event | New Governor, Charles de la Raliere Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island). | |
| June 29th, 1659 (June 29 1659) | Event | The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop. | |
| June 29th, 1644 (June 29 1644) | Event | 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. | |
| June 29th, 1613 (June 29 1613) | Event | The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground. | |
| June 29th, 1534 (June 29 1534) | Event | Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island. | |
| June 29th, 1194 (June 29 1194) | Event | Sverre is crowned King of Norway. | |
| June 29th, 1149 (June 29 1149) | Event | Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din. | |
| June 29th, 0512 (June 29 0512) | Event | A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. | |
