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Today in History ~ June 29
Events1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 - English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced to death
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1767 - British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts, which imposed import duties on certain goods shipped to America. Colonists bitterly protested the Acts, which were repealed in 1770.
1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry made governor.
1835 - Texan William Travis prepares for war with Mexico and raised a company of 25 volunteer soldiers. [H]
1854 - The U.S. Senate ratified the $10 million Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, adding more than 29,000 square miles to the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and completing the modern geographical boundaries of the contiguous 48 states.
1862 - Day 5 of 7 Days Battle of Savage's Station Va
1863 - Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
1863 - George A Custer at 23, appointed Union Brevet Brig-general
1863 - Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
1863 - The very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1888 - Doctor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.on King Edward VII
1897 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7
1902 - Marcel Renault won the four-day Paris-to-Vienna race, driving a car of his own design.
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins -- Bulgaria defeats Greek/Serbian troops
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1916 - Sir Roger David Casement, the Irish-born diplomat who in 1911 was knighted by King George V, was convicted of treason for his role in Ireland's Easter Rebellion, and sentenced to death
1927 - First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1936 - Empire State Building eminates high definition TV - 343 lines
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
1941 - In a surprise assault on Russia, Nazi divisions make sweeping advances toward Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev. [H]
1943 - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
1944 - Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden to confer with Hitler
1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
1947 - Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
1953 - The interstate highway system is born. The Federal Highway Act authorizes the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1954 - Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.
1955 - Bill Haley and the Comets reached the top of the charts with "Rock Around the Clock"
1956 - Charles Dumas became the first person to high jump over 7 feet - LA Cal
1956 - Marilyn Monroe marries the playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony
1962 - 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 85 km
1966 - Vietnam Air War Escalates U.S. aircraft bombed the major North Vietnamese population centers of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time, destroying oil depots located near the two cities.
1967 - Jayne Mansfield dies at 34
1967 - Jerusalem was re-unified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
1968 - "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1970 - The United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 - In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a vote of five to four that capital punishment, as it was currently employed on the state and federal level, was unconstitutional. Four years later, the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for murder cases
1974 - With Argentine President Juan Peron on his deathbed, his wife and vice president, was sworn in as president. She became the Western Hemisphere's first female head of government. [H]
1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1979 - "Moonraker" premieres in US
1980 - "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
1981 - Hu Yaobang, a protege of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, was elected Communist Party chairman, replacing Mao Tse-tung's handpicked successor, Hua Guofeng.
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" brought in $20.4 million at an auction in London, England
1991 - President Bush, speaking to reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, refused to rule out the possibility of renewed military action against Iraq, calling its interference with U.N. inspectors "very disturbing."
1991 - The European Community announced $1.4 billion in aid for the Soviet Union.
1992 - Doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world's first transplant of a baboon liver into a human patient. The recipient, a 35-year-old man, survived three months.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court left intact the important aspects of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion, but upheld most of Pennsylvania's new restrictions on a woman's right to abortion.
1993 - At a news conference in New York, Ike Turner denied beating his ex-wife Tina Turner, saying he only punched her once and slapped her around.
1994 - US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1994 - In a taped interview aired on British TV, Prince Charles admitted he'd been unfaithful to his estranged wife, Princess Diana
1995 - Editors of the New York Times and Washington Post said they were considering publishing the UNAbomber's mani festo in hopes of ending the bombings.
1996 - U.S. allies backed President Clinton's demand that Bosnian Serb leaders indicted for war crimes be forced "out of power and out of influence."
1999 - A Turkish court convicted Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan of treason and sentenced him to death.
2000 - An overloaded ship carrying almost 500 people, many fleeing sectarian violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands, sank, killing all but 10 known survivors.
2000 - President Clinton nominated former Congressman Norman Mineta to lead the Commerce Department and become the first Asian-American Cabinet secretary.
Birthdays Today
1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age)
1900 - Antoine Saint-Exupery, France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
1901 - Nelson Eddy (actor, singer w/Jeannette MacDonald: Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta, Girl of the Golden West)
1909 - Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 - Frank Loesser (songwriter: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Baby It's Cold Outside, On a Slow Boat to China, Once in Love with Amy, Luck Be a Lady, Thumbelina)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1912 - John Toland, US, political writer (Adolf Hitler, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971)
1915 - Ruth Warrick (actress: Citizen Kane, All My Children)
1915 - Ruth Warwick, in St Joseph Missouri
1919 - Slim Pickens (Louis Lindley) (actor: Dr. Strangelove, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harms Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer)
1922 - Mousey Alexander (musician: drums)
1922 - Ralph Burns (musician: piano; composer, arranger: Apple Honey)
1925 - Cara Williams (actress: The Defiant Ones, The Girl Next Door, Pete and Gladys)
1930 - Robert Evans (actor: The Man of a Thousand Faces, The Best of Everything)
1934 - Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew (baseball: Minnesota Twins: Baseball Writers' Award [1969])
1941 - Stokeley Carmichael (Kwame Toure) (civil rights activist)
1943 - Gary Busey (actor: The Buddy Holly Story, Breaking Point, The Texas Wheelers, Warriors, Lethal Weapon, The Firm, Predator 2)
1945 - 'Little' Eva Boyd (singer: The Loco-motion)
1947 - Larry Pleau (hockey)
1947 - Richard Lewis (comedian, actor: Anything But Love, Daddy Dearest, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Wagon's East)
1948 - Benny Johnson (football)
1948 - Fred Grandy (actor: The Love Boat; politician: U.S. congressman)
1948 - Rick Smith (hockey)
1949 - Dan Dierdorf (football: Chicago Bears; sportscaster: Monday Night Football)
1962 - Amanda Donohoe (actress: The Substitute, Double Cross, L.A. Law)
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil)
Famous deaths
1784 - Caesar Rodney, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
1840 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65
1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
1860 - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, dies at 55
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
1941 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), beheaded in a car crash at 34
1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59
1997 - William Hickey, acting teacher/actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 68
2000 - Actor Vittorio Gassman died in Rome at age 77.
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