About June 29
June 29, 2024 is the 181st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 214 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 29
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1895 –Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1926 –Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 2009 –Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.
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