About June 29
June 29, 2024 is the 181st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 214 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 29
- 1149 –Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 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.
- 1659 –At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- 1807 –Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1864 –Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 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”.
- 1928 –The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- 1945 –Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the 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 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 –Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
- 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.
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