Wikipedia: June 29

June 29
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June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.

Events

1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island)
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
1922 - France grants 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1925 - Canada House opens in London
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.

Births

1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (+ 1818)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, lyricist (+ 1837)
1861 - Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (+ 1944)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (+ 1944)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, singer (+ 1967)
1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (+ 1969)
1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (+ 1975)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (+ 1983)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
1944 - Gary Busey, actor
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress

Deaths

1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist
1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
1979 - Lowell George
1967 - Primo Carnera, boxer
1969 - Moise Thsombe, Premier of Congo
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
1995 - Lana Turner, actress
1999 - Allan Carr, film producer, writer
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, 78, Italian actor
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer, actress
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, actress

Holidays and observances

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)

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