June 29 facts for kids

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 185 days remain until the end of the year.

June 29th is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history, from ancient battles and royal coronations to modern technological breakthroughs and important decisions. Let's explore some of the key moments that happened on this date!

Historical Events on June 29th

Early History (Before 1600)

• 226 – Cao Rui became the new emperor of Wei, following his father.
• 1194 – Sverre was crowned King of Norway. This led to him being removed from the Catholic Church and caused a civil war in the country.
• 1444 – The Albanian hero Skanderbeg defeated an invading Ottoman army at the Battle of Torvioll.
• 1457 – A large fire badly damaged the Dutch city of Dordrecht.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier became the first European explorer to reach Prince Edward Island in North America.

Important Events (1601–1900)

• 1613 – The famous Globe Theatre in London, where many of William Shakespeare's plays were performed, burned down.
• 1620 – The English crown stopped people from growing tobacco in England. This gave the Virginia Company a special right to sell tobacco, and they paid a tax for it.
• 1644 – Charles I of England's forces defeated a group of Parliamentarian soldiers at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
• 1659 – In the Battle of Konotop, Ukrainian armies led by Ivan Vyhovsky defeated the Russian forces.
• 1764 – A very strong tornado hit Woldegk, Germany. It was so powerful that it leveled many buildings.
• 1786 – Over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders from Scotland, led by Alexander Macdonell, moved to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada.
• 1807 – During the Russo-Turkish War, Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroyed the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1850 – The Church of Greece was officially recognized as independent by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
• 1864 – Canada experienced its worst railway disaster. A train failed to stop for an open drawbridge and fell into the Richelieu River in Quebec, killing many people, mostly immigrants.
• 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis wrote a famous article criticizing King George. Trikoupis later became Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1880 – France took control of Tahiti, changing the independent Kingdom of Tahiti into a French territory.
• 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declared himself to be the Mahdi, a special leader in Islam.
• 1888 – George Edward Gouraud made a recording of Handel's Israel in Egypt on a phonograph cylinder. For a long time, this was thought to be the oldest known music recording.
• 1889 – Hyde Park and other nearby areas voted to join Chicago. This made Chicago the largest city in the United States by area at the time.

Modern Times (1901–Present)

• 1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 became the worst flood in Edmonton, Canada's history.
• 1916 – British diplomat Roger Casement, who became an Irish nationalist, was sentenced to death for his role in the Easter Rising against British rule.
• 1922 – France gave "one square kilometer" of land at Vimy Ridge to Canada forever, free of taxes. This was a gift to honor Canadian soldiers.
• 1927 – The Bird of Paradise aircraft completed the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the United States mainland to Hawaii.
• 1945 – The Soviet Union took control of the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
• 1950 – During the Korean War, U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered a sea blockade around Korea.
• 1952 – The very first Miss Universe beauty pageant was held. Armi Kuusela from Finland won the title of Miss Universe 1952.
• 1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This law created the United States Interstate Highway System, a network of major roads.
• 1971 – Sadly, the three cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 11 spacecraft died during re-entry after a record-setting stay on the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev were the first humans to die in space.
• 1972 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in the case Furman v. Georgia that applying the death penalty unfairly was against the U.S. Constitution.
• 1974 – Isabel Perón became the acting President of Argentina because her husband, President Juan Perón, was very ill.
• 1974 – Famous ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov left the Soviet Union and moved to Canada while on tour.
• 1976 – The Seychelles islands gained their independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 – A major meeting of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe took place in East Berlin.
• 1987 – Vincent van Gogh's painting, Le Pont de Trinquetaille, was sold for a huge amount of money at an auction in London, England.
• 1995 – For the first time, a U.S. Space Shuttle (the Atlantis) docked with the Russian space station Mir.
• 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapsed in Seoul, South Korea, causing a terrible disaster.
• 2002 – Naval battles occurred between South Korea and North Korea, leading to the loss of South Korean sailors and a North Korean vessel.
• 2006 – In the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that President George W. Bush's plan to try prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in military courts was against U.S. and international law.
• 2007 – Apple Inc. released its very first mobile phone, the iPhone.
• 2012 – A powerful storm called a derecho swept across the eastern United States, causing deaths and leaving millions without electricity.
• 2014 – A group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared itself a new state in Syria and northern Iraq.

Famous Birthdays on June 29th

Historical Figures (Before 1600)

• 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon, a queen.
• 1326 – Murad I, an Ottoman Sultan.
• 1398 – John II, a king of Aragon and Navarre.
• 1443 – Anthony Browne, an English knight.
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, a queen.
• 1488 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, a Catholic cardinal.
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, a Flemish doctor and botanist.
• 1525 – Peter Agricola, a German scholar and statesman.
• 1528 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a duke.
• 1543 – Christine of Hesse, a duchess.
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan.

Notable People (1601–1900)

• 1621 – Willem van der Zaan, a Dutch Admiral.
• 1686 – Pietro Paolo Troisi, a Maltese artist.
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, a German linguist and educator.
• 1768 – Vincenzo Dimech, a Maltese sculptor.
• 1787 – Lavinia Stoddard, an American poet.
• 1793 – Josef Ressel, a Czech-Austrian inventor who created the propeller.
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, a German author, and Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet.
• 1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, a French economist.
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, an American minister.
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, an Italian astronomer.
• 1819 – Thomas Dunn English, an American poet and politician.
• 1833 – Peter Waage, a Norwegian chemist.
• 1835 – Celia Thaxter, an American poet.
• 1844 – Peter I of Serbia, a king.
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, a Chilean politician and President of Chile; Sergei Witte, a Russian politician; and John Hunn, an American politician and Governor of Delaware.
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, an American general who helped design the Panama Canal; and Julia Lathrop, an American activist.
• 1861 – William James Mayo, an American doctor who co-founded the Mayo Clinic.
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, an American baseball player and manager.
• 1866 – Bartholomeus Roodenburch, a Dutch swimmer.
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, an American astronomer.
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, an American composer.
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, a German ethnologist.
• 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, an Italian cardinal.
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, a German general.
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, an American producer, and Curt Sachs, a German-American musicologist.
• 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, an English runner, and Franz Seldte, a German politician.
• 1885 – Izidor Kürschner, a Hungarian football player.
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, a Luxembourgian-French lawyer and Prime Minister of France.
• 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, an Australian gangster.
• 1889 – Willie Macfarlane, a Scottish-American golfer.
• 1890 – Robert Laurent, an American sculptor, and Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a Dutch supercentenarian.
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an Indian economist, and Aarre Merikanto, a Finnish composer.
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, a Canadian journalist.
• 1898 – Yvonne Lefébure, a French pianist.
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French poet and pilot.

People Born (1901–Present)

• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor.
• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer.
• 1904 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician.
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general, and Heinz Harmel, German general.
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer, and Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower.
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer, and Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player.
• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress, and Bernard Herrmann, American composer.
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer, Émile Peynaud, French wine expert, and John Toland, American historian.
• 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter.
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor, and Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician.
• 1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress.
• 1917 – Ling Yun, Chinese politician.
• 1918 – Heini Lohrer, Swiss ice hockey player, Gene La Rocque, U.S admiral, and Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general.
• 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal, Walter Babington Thomas, British military commander, Juan Blanco, Cuban composer, Slim Pickens, American actor, and Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director.
• 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer, Ray Harryhausen, American animator, Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford, and David Snellgrove, British tibetologist.
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French author, Jean Kent, English actress, Reinhard Mohn, German businessman, and Harry Schell, French-American race car driver.
• 1922 – Ralph Burns, American songwriter, Vasko Popa, Serbian poet, and John William Vessey, Jr., American general.
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer.
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer, Roy Walford, American pathologist, and Philip H. Hoff, American politician.
• 1925 – Francis S. Currey, American World War II hero, Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and President of Italy, Chan Parker, American dancer, Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress, and Cara Williams, American actress.
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S lieutenant general, Roger Stuart Bacon, Nova Scotia politician, and Bobby Morgan, American baseball player.
• 1927 – Pierre Perrault, Canadian director, and Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician.
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor, Jean-Louis Pesch, French author, and Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist.
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress, Pete George, American weightlifter, and Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist.
• 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German politician, Robert Evans, American producer, Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress, and Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author.
• 1931 – Sevim Burak, Turkish author.
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British judge.
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, American baseball player, and John Bradshaw, American author.
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor and director.
• 1935 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek businessman, and Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player.
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player.
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer, and Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer.
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer, and John Dawes, Welsh rugby player.
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player, and Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist.
• 1942 – Charlotte Bingham, English author, and Mike Willesee, Australian journalist.
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer, and Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur.
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor, Claude Humphrey, American football player, Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist, and Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal.
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and President of Sri Lanka.
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician and President of Panama, and Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer.
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American actor.
• 1948 – Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist, Fred Grandy, American actor, Ian Paice, English drummer, and Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician.
• 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player, Joan Clos, Spanish politician, and Ann Veneman, American politician.
• 1950 – Bobby London, American illustrator, Don Moen, American singer, and Michael Whelan, American artist.
• 1951 – Craig Sager, American sportscaster.
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer, and Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer.
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player, and Léo Júnior, Brazilian footballer.
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut.
• 1956 – Nick Fry, English businessman, David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator, Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician and Prime Minister of Portugal, and Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer.
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician and President of Turkmenistan, María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer, Robert Forster, Australian singer, Michael Nutter, American politician, and Terry Wyatt, English physicist.
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician, and Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner.
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress.
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress, Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer, and George D. Zamka, American astronaut.
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist, and Judith Hoag, American actress.
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer.
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist, and Paul Jarvis, English cricketer.
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese comic artist.
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver, Melora Hardin, American actress, and Seamus McGarvey, Northern Irish cinematographer.
• 1968 – Brian d'Arcy James, American actor, and Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician, Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer, and Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese politician.
• 1970 – Melanie Paschke, German sprinter, and Emily Skinner, American actress.
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer.
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist.
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver, and Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian.
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer, and Zuleikha Robinson, English actress.
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer.
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer, Andy O'Brien, English footballer, and Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer.
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano.
• 1981 – Luke Branighan, Australian rugby league player, Joe Johnson, American basketball player, Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver, and Shmuly Yanklowitz, American rabbi.
• 1982 – Colin Jost, American comedian, Dusty Hughes, American baseball player, and Lily Rabe, American actress.
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer, and Jeremy Powers, American cyclist.
• 1984 – Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper.
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player.
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer, and Edward Maya, Romanian singer.
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer.
• 1990 – Kim Little, Scottish footballer, and Yann M'Vila, French footballer.
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer, Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player, and Addison Timlin, American actress.
• 1993 – Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor.
• 1994 – Camila Mendes, American actress.
• 1996 – Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player.
• 1998 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player.
• 2001 – Aaron Schoupp, Australian rugby league player.
• 2003 – Jude Bellingham, English footballer.
• 2006 – Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor.

Famous Deaths on June 29th

Historical Figures (Before 1600)

• 226 – Cao Pi, a Chinese emperor.
• 884 – Yang Shili, a Chinese general.
• 976 – Gero, an archbishop.
• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony.
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.
• 1153 – Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles.
• 1252 – Abel, King of Denmark.
• 1293 – Henry of Ghent, a philosopher.
• 1315 – Ramon Llull, a Spanish philosopher.
• 1344 – Joan of Savoy, a duchess.
• 1374 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, a Czech priest and reformer.
• 1432 – Janus of Cyprus, a king.
• 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, an English countess and mother of King Henry VII.
• 1520 – Moctezuma II, an Aztec ruler.
• 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, a Japanese samurai.
• 1594 – Niels Kaas, a Danish politician.

Notable People (1601–1900)

• 1626 – Scipione Cobelluzzi, an Italian cardinal.
• 1646 – Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, an Irish Lord.
• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, a Japanese philosopher and politician.
• 1729 – Edward Taylor, an American-English poet.
• 1744 – André Campra, a French composer.
• 1764 – Ralph Allen, an English businessman.
• 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, a German painter.
• 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, a Prussian minister.
• 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, a French prince.
• 1852 – Henry Clay, an American lawyer and politician.
• 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, a French botanist.
• 1855 – John Gorrie, an American physician.
• 1860 – Thomas Addison, an English physician.
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an English poet.
• 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, an Indian poet.
• 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria, an emperor.
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist.
• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, a Russian mathematician.

People Who Passed Away (1901–Present)

• 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, a Greek painter.
• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández a Venezuelan physician.
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, a Canadian poet.
• 1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor and director.
• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, an Irish-American baseball player.
• 1936 – János Szlepecz, a Slovene priest.
• 1940 – Paul Klee, a Swiss painter.
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a Polish pianist and Prime Minister.
• 1942 – Paul Troje, a German politician.
• 1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis, a Greek politician.
• 1955 – Max Pechstein, a German painter.
• 1960 – Frank Patrick, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1962 – Charles Lyon Chandler, an American historian.
• 1964 – Eric Dolphy, an American saxophonist.
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, an Italian boxer, and Jayne Mansfield, an American actress.
• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, a Congolese politician.
• 1971 – Nestor Mesta Chayres, a Mexican singer.
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, an American singer.
• 1978 – Bob Crane, an American actor.
• 1979 – Lowell George, an American singer.
• 1980 – Jorge Basadre, a Peruvian historian.
• 1981 – Russell Drysdale, an English-Australian painter.
• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, a French fashion designer, and Henry King, an American director.
• 1986 – Frank Wise, an Australian politician.
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, an American author.
• 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, an Algerian politician.
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, a Puerto Rican-American singer.
• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, a German conductor.
• 1995 – Lana Turner, an American actress.
• 1997 – William Hickey, an American actor, and Marjorie Linklater, a Scottish campaigner.
• 1998 – Horst Jankowski, a German pianist.
• 1999 – Karekin I, a Syrian-Armenian patriarch, and Allan Carr, an American producer.
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, an Italian actor, and Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, a Canadian-English politician.
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, an American singer and actress.
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, an American actress.
• 2004 – Bernard Babior, an American physician, and Alvin Hamilton, a Canadian politician.
• 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, an Argentinian director, Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director, and Randy Walker, American football coach.
• 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, an American author, and Joel Siegel, an American journalist.
• 2009 – Joe Bowman, an American target shooter.
• 2011 – K. D. Sethna, an Indian poet and philosopher.
• 2012 – Yong Nyuk Lin, a Singaporean politician, Vincent Ostrom, an American political scientist, Juan Reccius, a Chilean athlete, and Floyd Temple, an American baseball player.
• 2013 – Peter Fitzgerald, an Irish footballer, Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, Margherita Hack, an Italian astrophysicist, and Gilma Jiménez, a Colombian politician.
• 2014 – Damian D'Oliveira, a South African cricketer, and Dermot Healy, an Irish author.
• 2015 – Hisham Barakat, an Egyptian judge, Josef Masopust, a Czech footballer, and Charles Pasqua, a French politician.
• 2016 – Jan Hettema, a South African cyclist.
• 2017 – Louis Nicollin, a French entrepreneur, and Dave Semenko, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2018 – Steve Ditko, an American comic writer.
• 2020 – Carl Reiner, an American actor and director, Stepa J. Groggs, American rap artist, and Hachalu Hundessa, an Ethiopian singer.
• 2021 – Donald Rumsfeld, an American politician.
• 2022 – Hershel W. Williams, an American Marine Corps officer and World War II hero.
• 2023 – Alan Arkin, an American actor.

Holidays and Celebrations

• Christian Feast Day: This day is celebrated by Christians for various saints, including Cassius of Narni and the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Western Christianity. Related celebrations include the Haro Wine Festival in Spain and l-Imnarja in Malta.
• Engineer's Day is celebrated in Ecuador.
• Independence Day (Seychelles): This day celebrates when Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans' Day (Netherlands) is observed in the Netherlands.
• National Statistics Day (India) is celebrated in India.

See also

In Spanish: 29 de junio para niños