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June 29 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland .1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din .1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway .1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of 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 - The Russians , led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop .1749 - New Governor , Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island ).1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County , Ontario .1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island .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 .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.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 - Sir Roger Casement , Irish Nationalist and British diplomat 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."1925 - Canada House opens in London , England .1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada .1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull 's Controllable pitch propeller .1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union .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 the death penalty could constitute "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.1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom .1995 - Space Shuttle program : STS-71 Mission (Atlantis 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.2002 - 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.
2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 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 .
2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.
Births
1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479 )1482 - Maria of Aragon , queen of Portugal (d. 1517 )1517 - Rembert Dodoens , Flemish physician (d. 1585 )1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680 )1798 - Giacomo Leopardi , Italian poet (d. 1837 )1803 - John Newton Brown , American publisher (d. 1868 )1849 - John Hunn , American businessman (d. 1926 )1858 - George Washington Goethals , American army engineer (d. 1928 )1861 - William Mayo , American physician (d. 1939 )1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986 )1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky , Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934 )1868 - George Ellery Hale , American astronomer (d. 1938 )1880 - Ludwig Beck , German general (d. 1944 )1881 - Harry Frazee , American baseball team owner (d. 1929 )1881 - Curt Sachs , German musicologist (d. 1959 )
1886 - Robert Schuman , French politician (d. 1963 )1889 - Willie MacFarlane , Scottish golfer (d. 1961 )1893 - Aarre Merikanto , Finnish composer (d. 1958 )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 )1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky , Russian general (d. 1945 )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 - Bernard Herrmann , American film composer (d. 1975 )
1912 - John Toland , American historian (d. 2004 )1912 - Émile Peynaud , French oenologist (d. 2004 )
1914 - Rafael Kubelík , Czech conductor (d. 1996 )1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos , Greek mathematician (d. 1976 )
1915 - Ruth Warrick , American actress (d. 2005 )1919 - Slim Pickens , American actor (d. 1983 )1919 - Lloyd Richards , American director (d. 2006 )1920 - Ray Harryhausen , American filmmaker1921 - Frédéric Dard , French writer (d. 2000 )1922 - Vasko Popa , Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991 )1923 - Chou Wen-chung , Chinese-American composer1924 - Flo Sandon's , Italian singer (d. 2006 )1924 - Ezra Laderman , American composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano , Italian politician1925 - Hale Smith , American composer and editor
1925 - Cara Williams , American actress
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006 )1928 - Ian Bannen , Scottish actor (d. 1999 )1929 - Pat Crawford Brown , American actress1929 - Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and author (d. 2006 )
1930 - Viola Léger , Acadian-Canadian actress1931 - Ed Gilbert , American actor (d. 1999 )1930 - Robert Evans , American film producer
1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton , British politician1933 - Bob Shaw , baseball player1933 - John Bradshaw , American theologian
1935 - Katsuya Nomura , Japanese baseball player and manager1936 - Harmon Killebrew , American baseball player1939 - Alan Connolly , Australian cricketer1939 - Lo Lieh , Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002 )
1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov , Russian composer1941 - Stokely Carmichael , Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998 )1942 - Mike Willesee , Australian television presenter1943 - Little Eva , American singer (d. 2003 )1944 - Gary Busey , American actor1944 - 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 actor1947 - Richard Lewis , American comedian
1948 - Ian Paice , English drummer1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu , Spanish politician1949 - Ann Veneman , American politician
1951 - Don Rosa , American ilustrator1952 - Joe Johnson , English snooker player1953 - Colin Hay , Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer1954 - Rick Honeycutt , American baseball player1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan , American activist1955 - Charles J. Precourt , American astronaut
1956 - Pedro Guerrero , American baseball player1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes , Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 - María Conchita Alonso , Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress1957 - Robert Forster , Australian musician
1958 - Rosa Mota , Portuguese athlete1958 - Jeff Coopwood , American actor, broadcaster and singer1960 - Evelyn King , American singer1961 - Kimberlin Brown , American actress1961 - Greg Hetson , American punk-rock guitarist
1961 - Sharon Lawrence , American actress
1962 - Amanda Donohoe , British actress1962 - George Zamka , American astronaut
1963 - Khalid El-Masri , German-born suspected terrorist1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter , German violinist
1964 - Stedman Pearson , British singer1965 - Tripp Eisen , American musician1966 - John Part , Canadian darts player1967 - Jeff Burton , American racing driver1967 - Murray Foster , Canadian musician1967 - Melora Hardin , American actress, singer1968 - Theoren Fleury , Canadian hockey player1969 - Claude Béchard , Canadian politician1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith , American actor
1969 - Toru Hashimoto , Japanese politician
1970 - Mike Vallely , American skateboarder1970 - Emily Skinner , American actress and singer
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley , American pornographic actress1971 - Matthew Good , Canadian musician
1971 - Anthony Hamilton , English snooker player
1972 - Samantha Smith , American activist (d. 1985 )1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi , Lebanese singer
1973 - George Hincapie , American cyclist1977 - Oleg Korenfeld , Russian-American poet1978 - Sam Farrar , American bassist1978 - Nicole Scherzinger , American singer and actress
1979 - Abs Breen , English singer1979 - Marleen Veldhuis , Dutch swimmer
1979 - Matthew Bode , Australian Rules football player
1979 - Barış Akarsu , Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007 )
1980 - Katherine Jenkins , Welsh soprano
1980 - Mel Peachey , British television personality
1980 - Martin Truex Jr , American race car driver
1981 - Joe Johnson , American basketball player1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich , Argentine racing driver (d. 2005 )
1983 - Aundrea Fimbres , American singer1984 - Han Ji-hye , South Korean actress and model1984 - Derek Lee Rock , American drummer
1985 - Quintin Demps , American football player1986 - Austin Drage , English singer1986 - Iya Villania , Filipina actress
1987 - Yasuka Saitou , Japanese actor1988 - Éver Banega , Argentine footballer1992 - Adam G. Sevani , American actor1993 - George Sampson , English dancer 2008
Deaths
1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218 )1315 - Ramon Llull , Spanish philosopher (b. 1235 )1509 - Margaret Beaufort , mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443 )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 )1852 - Henry Clay , U.S. Senator (b. 1777 )1855 - John Gorrie , American scientist (b. 1802 )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 scientist (b. 1825 )1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin , Russian mathematician (b. 1900 )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 )1934 - Zaro Aga , 157 years ago.(b.1777 )1935 - Jack O'Neill , baseball player (b. 1873 )1940 - Paul Klee , Swiss artist (b. 1879 )1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860 )1958 - Charles Spencelayh , English painter (b. 1865 )1960 - Frank Patrick , professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885 )1964 - Eric Dolphy , American jazz musician (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 , consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895 )1978 - Bob Crane , American actor (b. 1928 )1979 - Lowell George , American country-rock singer (Little Feat ) (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 - Mohammed Boudiaf , President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919 )1993 - Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946 )1994 - Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (b. 1908 )1995 - Lana Turner , American actress (b. 1921 )1997 - William Hickey , American actor (b. 1927 )1999 - Allan Carr , American film 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 - Randy Walker , American football coach (b. 1954 )2006 - Fabián Bielinsky , Argentinean film director (b. 1959 )
2006 - Lloyd Richards , American actor and director (b. 1919 )
2007 - Joel Siegel , American film critic (b. 1943 )2007 - Edward Yang , Taiwanese film director (b. 1947 )
Holidays and observances
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