June 29th. TODAY IN HISTORY

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.


226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.

1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.

1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.

1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

1644 – 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.

1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.

1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey

1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario Canada.

1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.

1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.

1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

1874 – 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.

1880 – France annexes Tahiti.

1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.

1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.

1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

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".

1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.

1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.

1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

1950 – The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and
Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

1974 – Isabel Perón 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.

1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.

1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

2006 – 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.

2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.

Births

• 1136 – Petronilla, Queen of Aragon (d. 1173)
• 1398 – King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Spanish-born wife of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German writer and linguist (d. 1818)
• 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1844 – Peter I, King of Serbia, founding father of Yugoslavia (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
• 1849 – Sergei Witte, Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1915)
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children's rights activist (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
• 1861 – Devaki Nandan Khatri, Indian Writer(d.1913)
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, oldest man ever, who lived to be 120 years 237 days old (d. 1986)
• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor (d. 1926)
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
• 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian writer (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Franz Seldte, Nazi politician (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1886 – James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1903 – Paul Newlan, American actor d. 1973
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German SS General (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American theatre director (d. 2006)
• 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Jean Kent, British actress
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Harry Schell, American racecar driver (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born American composer
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of the Republic
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1925 – Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French writer
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer
• 1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1930 – Sławomir Mrożek, Polish writer
• 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Chuck Schaden, Chicago radio personality and historian
• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 – Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 – Michael Carter, British actor
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian
• 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American illustrator
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American musician (Dokken)
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
• 1954 – Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, CEO of Mercedes GP Formula One team
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister
• 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathon runner
• 1958 – Mark Radcliffe, British broadcaster and musician
• 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish politician
• 1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
• 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bassist and double-bassist (Moxy Früvous, Great Big Sea)
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
• 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
• 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer (Matthew Good Band)
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 – DJ Shadow, American music producer and DJ
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
• 1979 – Abz Love (formerly known as Abs Breen), English DJ and singer (Five)
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
• 1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
• 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
• 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée, Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian musician
• 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipino actress
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-born Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
• 1988 – Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
• 1992 – Adam Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor
• 1994 – Shin Dongho, South-Korean singer, member of (U-KISS)

Deaths

• 226 – Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 187)
• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. c. 995)
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch
• 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Moctezuma II, tlatoani of Tenochtitlan (b. c. 1466)
• 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1514/5)
• 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (b. 1535)
• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
• 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
• 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
• 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer (b. 1757)
• 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
• 1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
• 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician, scientist, inventor and humanitarian (b. 1802)
• 1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician and scientist (b. 1793)
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
• 1875 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
• 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene writer and priest (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Paul Troje, German politician (b. 1864)
• 1949 – Themistoklis Sophoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
• 1951 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
• 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
• 1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1977 – Magda Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
• 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 1999 – Karekin I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker and showman (b. 1925)