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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 16, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,719,619,200 seconds 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 ‘hectaoctacontahenagon’ day.
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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 214 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 4,208 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 29 Historical Events
- 226 –Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1194 –Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444 –Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1644 –Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 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.
- 1889 –Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- 1916 –The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 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.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1798 –Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
- 1844 –Peter I, King of Serbia, founding father of Yugoslavia (d. 1921)
- 1924 –Ezra Laderman, American composer
- 1929 –Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
- 1948 –Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
- 1963 –Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
- 1969 –Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1980 –Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
- 1982 –Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- 1986 –Edward Maya, Romanian musician
Who died on June 29?
- 1509 –Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
- 1744 –André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
- 1853 –Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
- 1855 –John Gorrie, American physician, scientist, inventor and humanitarian (b. 1802)
- 1933 –Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1940 –Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1978 –Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1994 –Jack Unterweger, Austrain serial killer (b. 1950)
- 2006 –Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
- 2007 –Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
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