What are the important events that happened on June 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 29: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 29 is the 180^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 16, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,185,920 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac 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 233 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,573 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 29 Historical Events

• 1444 –
  Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
• 1864 –
  Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 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.
• 1914 –
  Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1927 –
  First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
• 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.
• 1976 –
  The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 2002 –
  Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2009 –
  Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.

Who were born on June 29?

• 1866 –
  Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1920 –
  Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1939 –
  Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1949 –
  Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1956 –
  Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1967 –
  Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1971 –
  Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
• 1976 –
  Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
• 1981 –
  Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1984 –
  Christopher Egan, Australian actor

Who died on June 29?

• 226 –
  Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 187)
• 1831 –
  Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer (b. 1757)
• 1860 –
  Thomas Addison, English physician and scientist (b. 1793)
• 1921 –
  Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1935 –
  Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1941 –
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1964 –
  Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1928)
• 1967 –
  Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1990 –
  Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1994 –
  Jack Unterweger, Austrain serial killer (b. 1950)