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
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1926 –Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 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.
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