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1236Jun 29In Spain Christian forces under Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba. The last Islamic kingdom left in Spain is that of the Berbers in Granada.
1440Jun 29Florentine troops fought the Milanese in the Battle of Anghiari. After the battle of Anghiari, Andrea del Castagno (1421-1457), a Medici protege, painted effigies of the hanged rebels.
1502Jun 29Christopher Columbus arrived at Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, on his 4th voyage to the new world. He requested harbor and advised Gov. Nicolas de Ovando of an approaching hurricane. Ovando denied the request and dispatched a treasure fleet to Spain. 20 ships sank in the storm, 9 returned to port and one made it to Spain.
1534Jun 29Jacques Cartier discovered Canada’s Prince Edward Islands.
1540Jun 29Thomas Cromwell, English ex-chancellor, was sentenced to death.
1541Jun 29The Spanish [first] crossed the Arkansas River. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado continued to explore the American southwest. He left New Mexico and crossed Texas, Oklahoma and east Kansas.
1582Jun 29Tatar forces attacked invading Cossacks on the Tobol River but Cossack gunfire again repelled them.
1613Jun 29Shakespeare’s Globe Theater burned down in London. It was soon rebuilt on the same foundations.
1652Jun 29Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1746Jun 29Bonnie Prince Charlie fled in disguise to Isle of Skye.
1767Jun 29The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts, sponsored by statesman Charles Townshend (1725-1767), which imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America. Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament in 1770 to repeal the duties on all goods, except tea.
1776Jun 29The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1784Jun 29Caesar Rodney (b.1728), US judge, Delaware representative as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died. He was later depicted on the Delaware state quarter
1801Jun 29Frederic Bastiat (d.1850), French free-market economist, was born in Bayonne. “The state is the great fictitious entity in which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
1804Jun 29Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins receives 100 lashes on his back and Hall receives 50.
1840Jun 29Lucien Bonaparte (65), prince of Canino, Musignano, died.
1858Jun 29George Washington Goethals, engineer of the Panama Canal, was born.
1860Jun 29Thomas Addison (67), English physician (A-Biermer Disease), died.
1861Jun 29William James Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, was born.
1862Jun 29Union forces continued to fall back from Richmond, but put up a fight at the Battle of Savage’s Station on day 5 of the 7 Days Battle.
1863Jun 29Battle at Westminster, Maryland: Federal assault.
1863Jun 29Lee ordered his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN.
1864Jun 29In Canada the St-Hilaire train disaster occurred near the town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. The train, which had been carrying many German and Polish immigrants, failed to acknowledge a stop signal and fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River. The widely accepted death toll was 99 persons.
1865Jun 29William E. Borah, Republican senator from Idaho, proponent of the League of Nations, was born.
1866Jun 29England’s Reform League, organized a demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Its size and violence surprised everyone. A second meeting on 2 July was even more heated. The Trafalgar Square meetings were followed by a giant meeting held at Hyde Park on 23 July.
1873Jun 29China’s Emperor Tongzhi held the first imperial audience with foreign diplomats in 80 years. Japan’s foreign minister asked for compensation for an attack on sailors from the Ryukyu islands by aborigines on Taiwan. China disavowed responsibility.
1880Jun 29France annexed Tahiti.
1881Jun 29Muhammad Ahmad (1844-1855) proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith in Sudan and led a successful military campaign against the Turco-Egyptian government of the Sudan (known as the Turkiyah).
1886Jun 29James Van Der Zee, African-American photographer, was born.
1888Jun 29Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.
1889Jun 28Maria Mitchell (b.1818), American astronomer, died in Lynn, Mass.
1903Jun 29The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1905Jun 29Russian troops intervened as riots erupt in ports all over the country, leaving many ships looted.
1910Jun 29Frank Loesser, songwriter, was born.
1911Jun 29Klaus E.J. Fuchs, German nuclear physicist, spy, was born.
1912Jun 29John Toland, US political writer (Adolf Hitler, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971), was born.
1913Jun 29Anticipating assistance from Austro-Hungary the Bulgarian army attacked its former allies. This Second Balkan War was at first waged entirely on Macedonian soil. Bulgaria defeated Greek and Serbian troops.
1916Jun 29Sir Roger David Casement, the Irish-born diplomat knighted by King George V in 1911, was convicted of treason for his role in Ireland’s Easter Rebellion, and sentenced to death. He had been caught on an Irish beach during a foiled attempt to 20,000 German rifles.
1917Jun 29The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1925Jun 29An earthquake ravaged Santa Barbara, California, causing millions in property damage.
1926Jun 29Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.
1928Jun28-Jun 29Albert Hegenberger and Lester Maitland accomplished the first nonstop flight across the Pacific.
1930Jun 29Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist, was born.
1932Jun 29Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.
1933Jun 29Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (46), US actor (Keystone comedies), died at the Park Central Hotel in NYC.
1937Jun 29Joseph-Armand Bombardier received notification that the Canadian government had granted his patent request for his snowmobile (une autoneige).
1938Jun 29Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and Olympic National Park, Washington, were founded.
1940Jun 29In the Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan.
1941Jun 29Polish statesman, pianist and composer Ignace Jan Paderewski died in New York at age 80.
1943Jun 29Germany began withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe.
1944Jun 29Rommel and von Rundstedt traveled to Berchtesgaden to confer with Hitler.
1945Jun 29Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, became part of Ukrainian SSR.
1946Jun 29British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism.
1949Jun 29US troops withdrew from Korea after WW II. [see Jun 28]
1950Jun 29President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
1951Jun 29The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
1954Jun 29The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s access to classified information.
1955Jun 29The Soviet Union sent tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.
1956Jun 29Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony.
1958Jun 29A bomb exploded at the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; there were no injuries.
1964Jun 29Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate.
1966Jun 29The U.S. Air Force bombed fuel storage facilities near Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam. Republic Aircraft’s F-105 Thunderchief, better known as the ‘Thud,’ was the Air Force’s warhorse in Vietnam.
1967Jun 29Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
1968Jun 29In Costa Rica the Arenal volcano, dormant for 450 years, burst into life and killed 95 people. The village of Tabacon was wiped out.
1970Jun 29The United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
1974Jun 29Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada.
1976Jun 29The Seychelles gained independence after 165 years under British rule.
1979Jun 29The James Bond film “Moonraker” premiered in the US.
1980Jun 29“Sweeney Todd” closed at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances.
1981Jun 29Hu Yaobang, a protege of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, was elected Communist Party chairman, replacing Mao Tse-tung’s handpicked successor, Hua Guofeng.
1984Jun 29In San Francisco Hoffman’s Grill on Market Street closed to make way for a 19-story office building.
1987Jun 29Vincent Van Gogh’s “Le Pont de Trinquetaille” brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England.
1988Jun 29The US Supreme Court, in Morrison v. Olson, upheld the power of independent counsels in a 7-1 decision to prosecute illegal acts by high-ranking government officials, ruling the 1978 special prosecutor law did not violate the Constitution.
1989Jun 29The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of new sanctions against China because of its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement.
1990Jun 29Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dave Stewart of the Oakland A’s became the first pitchers to hurl no-hitters in both the National and American Leagues on the same day. Oakland shut out the Blue Jays, 5-to-0, while Los Angeles blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-to-0.
1991Jun 29President Bush, speaking to reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, refused to rule out the possibility of renewed military action against Iraq, calling its interference with UN inspectors “very disturbing.”
1992Jun 29The remains of Polish statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski, interred for five decades in the United States, were returned to his homeland in keeping with his wish to be buried only in a free Poland.
1993Jun 29A one-day stock transaction netted Sen. Alfonse D’Amato a profit of $37,125. D’Amato was the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee and appeared to have gotten special consideration in getting shares on the IPO of Computer Marketplace.
1994Jun 29US reopened Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.
1995Jun 29Actress Lana Turner died in Century City, California, at age 74.
1996Jun 29U.S. allies backed President Clinton’s demand that Bosnian Serb leaders indicted for war crimes be forced “out of power and out of influence.”
1997Jun 29William Hickey (68), acting teacher, actor (Prizzi’s Honor), died of emphysema.
1998Jun 29With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the NBA announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.
1999Jun 29Urging the biggest expansion in Medicare’s history, President Clinton proposed that the government help older Americans pay for prescription drugs.
2000Jun 29President Clinton nominated former Congressman Norman Mineta to lead the Commerce Department and become the first Asian-American Cabinet secretary.
2001Jun 29The National Japanese American Memorial opened in Washington DC. It was privately funded by 20,000 Japanese Americans.
2002Jun 29President Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health.
2003Jun 29SF held its 33rd annual SF Gay Pride parade on Market St.
2004Jun 29The US Supreme Court blocked a law meant to shield Web-surfing children from online pornography.
2005Jun 29In Manhattan a new design, by architect David M. Childs, was unveiled for the Freedom Tower.
2006Jun 29President George W. Bush welcomed PM Junichiro Koizumi as a good friend and thanked Japan for support in Iraq and handling common threats like terrorism and North Korea.
2007Jun 29The US Supreme Court said it will claims of Guantanamo detainees that they have a right to challenge their detentions in American federal courts.
2008Jun 29US researchers reported that a drug called lodamin, developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment, may be broadly effective against a range of cancers.
2009Jun 29The US Supreme Court ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
2010Jun 29President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdullah voiced “strong support” for international efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear program, which the West says masks a secret drive to develop the capability for an atomic bomb.
2011Jun 29Bank of America said it has agreed to pay $8.5 billion to resolve claims over soured mortgages. The settlement still required court approval.
2012Jun 29The US Congress passed a $105 billion transportation bill that also averted a doubling of student loan rates.
2013Jun 29Pres. Obama in South Africa encouraged leaders in Africa and around the world to follow former South African President Nelson Mandela’s example of country before self. Obama met privately with the family of ailing Nelson Mandela.
2014Jun 29US Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun (34) was flown from the Middle East to Norfolk, Va., after turning himself in to US authorities. He was declared a deserter in 2004 after disappearing in Iraq. On Feb 23, 2015, Hassoun was sentenced to two years in prison for desertion.
 Source: Timelines of History 

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