Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 29
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mission San Francisco de Asís, late 19th century
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Isabel Perón
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Crowd gathered around destroyed Serb property
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Engraving of the Woldegk tornado
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Seychelles (1976) | refimprove section |
| 1149 – Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond. | Undercited, Template:POTD/2024-06-29 |
| 1194 – Sverre was crowned King of Norway. | needs more footnotes |
| 1444 – In their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, Albanian forces led by Skanderbeg routed the Ottoman army at the Battle of Torvioll. | refimprove |
| 1659 – Russo-Polish War: A coalition led by Ukrainian hetman Ivan Vyhovsky defeated the forces of the Tsardom of Russia, commanded by Aleksey Trubetskoy, at the Battle of Konotop. | Undercited |
| 1776 – Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu founded Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. | lots of CN tags in one section (4) |
| 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis published a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to blame?", laying out his complaints against King George. | refimprove |
| 1880 – King Pōmare V was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti and its dependencies to France. | Pōmare V: short, unreferenced; Tahiti: refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1956 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially creating the Interstate Highway System, one of the largest public works projects in history. | refimprove section |
| 1974 – Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female acting president of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan, who died two days later. | refimprove |
| 1974 – Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto. | refimprove section |
| 1985 – The European Economic Community adopted the flag of Europe, previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955. | recentism |
| 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapsed in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. | needs more footnotes |
| 2002 – North and South Korean patrol boats clashed along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea. | unreferenced section |
| 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international law. | primary sources, expansion |
| 2007 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone industry and made the company one of the world's most valuable publicly traded companies. | too long, refimprove sections |
| Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein |d|1831 | lots of CN tags (15) |
Eligible
- 1776 – The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May, New Jersey.
- 1832 – Black Hawk War: Three men working in a cornfield were attacked by Sauk Native Americans, resulting in two deaths.
- 1864 – A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
- 1913 – More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
- 1927 – The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
- 1971 – The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.
- 1995 – Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
- 2003 – An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
- Born/died this day: | Óláfr Guðrøðarson|d|1153| Pedro Pacheco de Villena |b|1488| Rembert Dodoens |b|1517| Niels Kaas |d|1594| Pietro Paolo Troisi |b|1686| Ralph Allen |d|1764| Lavinia Stoddard |b|1787| Thomas Dunn English |b|1819|Ludwig Beck |b|1880| Elisabet Ney |d|1907| David Rubinger |b|1924| Harmon Killebrew |b|1936| Fred Grandy |b|1948| Charles Lyon Chandler |d|1962| Jorge Basadre|d|1980| Kim Little |b|1990| Lana Turner |d|1995| Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood |d|2000| Katharine Hepburn|d|2003| Jim Pappin |d|2022|
Notes
- Rudolf Nureyev appears on June 16, so Mikhail Baryshnikov should not appear in the same year
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of [[Henry VIII (play)|Template:Nowrap]] and ignited the roof.
- 1764 – One of the strongest tornadoes in history struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
- 1950 – The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
- 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
- 2020 – Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.