Historical Events on June 29

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• 512 A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 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 is crowned King of Norway.
• 1312 Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII crowned
• 1377 French raid at Rye, England
• 1428 Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
• 1529 Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona

• 1659 The Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia
• 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 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
• 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

• 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 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Va
• 1863 Battle at Westminster, Maryland: Federal assault

• 1863 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• 1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
• 1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
• 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)
• 1881 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
• 1888 First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder
• 1891 US National Forest Service organized
• 1891 Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
• 1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1895 US National Championship Women's Tennis: Juliette Atkinson beats defending champion Helen Hellwig 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
• 1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
• 1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
• 1900 The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against the foreigners in China and blames hostilities on them, giving license to Boxers for even greater ferocity
• 1901 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Elisabeth Moore beats defending champion Myrtle McAteer 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 for her second of 4 US singles titles
• 1903 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Willie Anderson of Scotland first to win the Open twice; beats countryman David Brown by 2 strokes in an 18-hole playoff
• 1903 British government protests against abuses in Belgian Congo
• 1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
• 1906 US Open Men's Golf, Onwentsia GC: Scotsman Alex Smith wins first of his 2 Open titles, 7 strokes ahead of runner-up and younger brother Willie Smith
• 1906 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
• 1910 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In an all-British final, Dorothea Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-2, 6-2 for her 4th of 7 Wimbledon singles titles
• 1911 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria
• 1913 The attack by Bulgarian General Michael Savov on Greek and Serbian positions leads to beginning 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 Ca
• 1929 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt
• 1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
• 1931 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)

• 1932 USSR & China sign non-aggression treaty
• 1933 Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1934 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St. George's GC: Henry Cotton of England wins wire-to-wire by 5 shots from South African Sid Brews
• 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
• 1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"

• 1939 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
• 1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
• 1940 Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
• 1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
• 1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
• 1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
• 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
• 1943 US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
• 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
• 1944 German counter attack at Caen
• 1944 Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead

• 1944 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
• 1944 US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg


• 1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
• 1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
• 1946 "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 performances
• 1946 "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 performances
• 1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
• 1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
• 1947 US Open Women's Golf, Starmount Forest CC: American Betty Jameson wins her only US crown, 6 strokes ahead of runners-up Polly Riley and Sally Sessions, both amateurs
• 1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game winning streak
• 1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
• 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
• 1950 US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
• 1950 West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks to Ramadhin & Valentine
• 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 Charles Dumas makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, California
• 1956 US Federal interstate highway system act signed
• 1956 Dutch PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
• 1957 US Open Women's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Betsy Rawls wins when apparent champion, Jackie Pung at 298 (+6) is disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard kept by playing partner Betty Jameson

• 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 "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
• 1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
• 1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
• 1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
• 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in the US Senate
• 1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
• 1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
• 1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
• 1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

• 1967 Jayne Mansfield, American actress, and Samuel S. Brody, attorney and Mansfield's current partner, die in a car crash
• 1968 "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
• 1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
• 1969 US Open Women's Golf, Scenic Hills CC: Donna Caponi wins first of 4 major titles; beat Peggy Wilson by 1 stroke

• 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 Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), St. George's CC: JoAnne Carner wins in a playoff with Carol Mann
• 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 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
• 1977 Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
• 1977 South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP)
• 1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Middle East
• 1979 San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
• 1980 "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
• 1980 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina wins inaugural event by 4 strokes ahead of amateur William C. Campbell; his Champions Tour debut


• 1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Tehran, 72 killed

• 1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
• 1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
• 1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
• 1984 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990

• 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 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver

• 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
• 1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
• 1988 Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
• 1989 Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
• 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 Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
• 1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game winning streak
• 1990 A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues
• 1990 World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
• 1991 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 performances
• 1991 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
• 1991 With a world ranking of 591, Englishman Nick Brown upsets 10th-seeded (and 2001 champion) Goran Ivanišević 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in the 2nd round at Wimbledon
• 1992 "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif


• 1992 A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season

• 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
• 1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
• 1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
• 1994 NBA Draft: Purdue small forward Glenn Robinson first pick by Milwaukee Bucks

• 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 "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
• 1997 "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 performances
• 1997 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Graham Marsh of Australia wins by 1 stroke ahead of South African John Bland
• 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.

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