About June 29
June 29, 2023 is the 180th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 226 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 29
- 1194 –Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444 –Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1864 –Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1880 –France annexes Tahiti.
- 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.
- 1926 –Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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