June 29 in history
Events on June 29
Notable events that happened on June 29 in past years.
- 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
Wikipedia article: Islamic State - 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.
Wikipedia article: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - 1987
Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
Wikipedia article: Vincent van Gogh - 1976
The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
Wikipedia article: 1976 Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe - 1972
The United States 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.
Wikipedia article: Supreme Court of the United States - 1956
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
Wikipedia article: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 - 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.
Wikipedia article: Bird of Paradise (aircraft) - 1915
The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
Wikipedia article: North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 - 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.
Wikipedia article: George Edward Gouraud - 1864
At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
Wikipedia article: Germans - 1786
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
Wikipedia article: Alexander Macdonell (bishop of Kingston) - 1620
English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
Wikipedia article: History of tobacco - 1457
The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire.
Wikipedia article: Dordrecht - 1149
Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 226
Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei.
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