June 29

 

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.

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
• 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.

Births

• 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
• 1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen 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, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German novelist (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
• 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and publisher (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army officer and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and 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 (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian politician (d. 1934)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, 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 director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Franz Seldte, German nazi politician (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1886 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (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 engineer, developed the H2S radar (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 Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 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 director (d. 2006)
• 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Harry Schell, American race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-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 – Chan Parker, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French writer and illustrator
• 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, Canadian actress and politician
• 1930 – Sławomir Mrożek, Polish writer
• 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, English politician
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Chuck Schaden, American historian and radio host
• 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 host
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Michael Carter, English actor
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor
• 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Deep Purple and Paice, Ashton & Lord)
• 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American writer and illustrator
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer and guitarist (Dokken)
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
• 1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens)
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor and singer
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
• 1958 – Mark Radcliffe, English musician, writer, and broadcaster (Shirehorses and The Family Mahone)
• 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American singer and guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Black President, and Redd Kross)
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress
• 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish politician
• 1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German suspected terrorist
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X, Dope, and Murderdolls)
• 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese illustrator
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver
• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bassist (Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea)
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
• 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
• 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American porn actress
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Matthew Good Band)
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 – DJ Shadow, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1975 – Dawn Nash, American photographer, Romantic Specialists
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, musician, and producer (Flight of the Conchords The Black Seeds, So You're a Man, and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American singer and musician (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden's Crush)
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Abz Love), English singer and DJ (Five)
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 – Melissa Peachey, English television host
• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer-songwriter and musician
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
• 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Danity Kane)
• 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée and Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1986 – Iya Villania, Australian-Filipino actress
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
• 1988 – Becky Taylor, English singer
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
• 1991 – Soren Fulton, American actor
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
• 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – Lorenzo Henrie, American actor
• 1993 – George Sampson, English actor and dancer
• 1994 – Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)

Deaths

• 226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)
• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
• 1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
• 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
• 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish politician (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, French brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
• 1852 – Henry Clay, American politician (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 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
• 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian soldier and politician, 2nd 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 historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (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 musician, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (b. 1940)
• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 – Magda Lupescu, Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Henry King, American director (b. 1886)
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (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 – Karekin I, Armenian religious leader (b. 1950)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
• 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 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine director (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American author (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Joel Siegel, American critic (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese director (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Joe Bowman, American marksman and boot-maker (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, South African bishop (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Juan Reccius, Chilean athlete (b. 1911)
• 2012 – José Sótero Valero Ruz, Venezuelan bishop (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cassius of Narni
  • Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
    • Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
    • l-Imnarja (Malta)
  • June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans Day (Netherlands)
• World Industrial Design Day
• International Sharing Day

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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