June 29 - Events

Events

• 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
• 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
• 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• 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".
• 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• 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.
• 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 – 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.
• 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2007 – Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone.
• 2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
• 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.