June 29


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 Rali¸re 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
   * 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)