Historical Events on June 29

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• 512 A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland
• 922 Kingdom of the West Franks crowns Robert I as King of West Francia, after deposing Charles the Simple (Charles III)
• 1072 Former Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes blinded by rivals and exiled

• 1149 Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 Sverre [Sigurdsson] is crowned King of Norway after years of dispute
• 1312 Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII crowned
• 1377 French raid on Rye, England

• 1659 The Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop

• 1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
• 1749 New Governor Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1755 515 prominent Filipinos baptized as Catholic
• 1755 German medieval heroic poem "Nibelungenlied" (the Song of the Nibelungs) rediscovered in Hohenems Castle Library in Vorarlberg, Austria by Jacob Hermann Oreit
• 1767 British pass Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America, helping to intensify opposition to British rule
• 1776 Mission Dolores founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu

• 1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario
• 1800 Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
• 1806 Orkney woman Isobel Gunn sets sail for Prince Rupert's Land disguised as a man to work for the Hudson Bay Company - her true identity only revealed when she gives birth December 1807 [1]
• 1850 Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.

• 1854 Netherlands allows corporal punishment
• 1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
• 1858 Great fire in London docks
• 1858 Treaty of Algun: China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
• 1862 Day 5 of 7 day Battle of Savage's Station, Virginia
• 1863 Battle at Westminster or Corbitt's Charge, Maryland: small unit of Delaware cavalry charge Confederate cavalry numbering nearly 6,000, crucially delaying their arrival at Gettysburg
• 1863 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• 1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
• 1864 Canada's worst railway accident: Grand Trunk Railway train crashes onto a barge on the Richelieu River killing 100 people
• 1864 Samuel Crowther, bishop of Niger, becomes the first Black bishop of the Church of England
• 1867 Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
• 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 Otaheite (Tahiti)

• 1888 First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's "Israel in Egypt" on wax cylinder
• 1891 Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation
• 1891 US National Forest Service organized
• 1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1897 Chicago Colts establish MLB record for most runs scored in a game by one team as they maul Louisville Colonels, 36 - 7 at the West Side Grounds, Chicago
• 1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 million damage
• 1900 The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against foreigners in China blaming them for hostilities and giving license to the Boxers for even greater ferocity
• 1903 British government protests against abuses in Belgian Congo
• 1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
• 1906 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
• 1911 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria
• 1913 An attack by Bulgarian General Michael Savov on Greek and Serbian positions causes the start of the Second Balkan War

• 1918 A provisional government opposed to the Bolsheviks establishes itself at Vladivostok, the Russian port on the Sea of Japan
• 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, England

• 1926 Carter G. Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research into Black history
• 1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
• 1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller
• 1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened
• 1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, California
• 1929 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
• 1931 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record, until broken in 2015)

• 1932 USSR & China sign non-aggression treaty

• 1935 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Sunset Ridge CC: Opal Hill scores an easy, 9 & 7 win over Mrs. S.L. Reinhart to claim her first of 2 consecutive major titles
• 1936 Empire State Building broadcasts high definition TV-343 lines

• 1939 4th Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn falls
• 1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe

• 1940 Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
• 1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rub out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
• 1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
• 1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
• 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe

• 1943 US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
• 1944 French Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
• 1944 German counterattack at Caen

• 1944 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
• 1944 US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg, France
• 1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
• 1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
• 1946 Black Sabbath as the British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
• 1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
• 1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game winning streak
• 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
• 1950 Striker Joe Gaetjens heads US to an upset, 1-0 win over England in a FIFA World Cup group match in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Americans next win over England: 1994

• 1952 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn
• 1953 XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1955 Argentine state of siege ends
• 1956 American Charles Dumas records first high jump over 7' (2.13m) during US Olympic Trials at Los Angeles, California

• 1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
• 1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)

• 1961 The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government
• 1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
• 1962 Frank Howard hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
• 1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
• 1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien

• 1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
• 1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
• 1966 US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time in the Vietnam War
• 1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

• 1969 1st Jewish worship service at the White House

• 1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

• 1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
• 1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
• 1974 Military coup in Ethiopia
• 1975 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)

• 1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

• 1977 South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP)
• 1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults

• 1979 San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
• 1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Tehran, 72 killed

• 1982 US Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended

• 1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base

• 1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
• 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-11
• 1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad

• 1986 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Argentina beats West Germany, 3-2 in front of 114,600
• 1986 Moses Mayekiso, former General Secretary of Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and member of South African Communist Party (SACP), detained for a second time, spends months in solitary confinement

• 1987 Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts

• 1989 South Africa's National Party adopts five year programme of its objectives, including a political "reform" plan to give Black majority role in national and local government; ANC responds it would consider only a one-man, one-vote system

• 1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game winning streak
• 1990 World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
• 1991 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
• 1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California
• 1992 Algerian head of state, Mohamed Boudiaf, is assassinated by military officers during a public speech at the opening of a cultural center in Annaba

• 1992 Oakland Athletics' Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight saves for the season
• 1994 128°F (53°C) Lake Havasu City, Arizona (state record, breaking previous set in 1905)
• 1994 NBA Draft: Purdue small forward Glenn Robinson first pick by Milwaukee Bucks
• 1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
• 1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees

• 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
• 1996 Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
• 1996 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
• 1997 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
• 1997 Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss

• 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.

• 2007 Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2008 Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter

• 2012 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
• 2012 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
• 2012 Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45

• 2015 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks
• 2016 Martyna Majok's play "Cost of Living" premieres at the Williamstown Theater Festival (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2018)
• 2016 US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the US armed forces
• 2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"

• 2017 Mihai Tudose confirmed as Romanian Prime Minister, by parliament, succeeding Sorin Grindeanu
• 2017 Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell charged with historic sexual offenses in Victoria, Australia

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