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2005-06-29

On this day in History - June 29

0067 - St. Peter, dies crucified. Apostle
1252 - King Abel of Denmark dies (b. 1218)
1315 - Ramon Llull, dies (b. 1235). Philosopher.
1397 - John II of Aragon was born (d. 1479)
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, English ex-chancellor, was sentenced to death
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan was born (d. 1680)
1613 - London's Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
1620 - John Aerts, dies. Flemish sculptor
1641 - Portugal assinou com a Suécia o Tratado de Estocolmo
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, dies (b. 1657). Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer.
1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, was born (d. 1818). Pedagogue.
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts.
1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1779 - Anton Raphael Mengs dies. Painter.
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, was born (d. 1837). Italian poet.
1801 - Pietro Alfieri was born. Italian composer.
1837 - Morte do rei William IV da Inglaterra.
1847 - Assinatura da Convenção do Gramido que põe fim à guerra civil da Patuleia, firmando a derrota das forças revoltosas da junta do Porto, compostas por uma aliança de setembristas, miguelistas e dissidentes cartistas, e consagrando a vitória do governo cartista do marechal Saldanha.
1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
1852 - Juan de Dios Peza was born. Mexican writer .
1858 - Julia Clifford Lathrop was born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1932). American social worker, head of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1912-1921)
1858 - George Washington Goethals, was born (d. 1928). American army engineer (Chief Engineer of Panama Canal);
1861 - Dr. William Mayo, was born. American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dies (b. 1806). Poet.
1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
1868 - George Ellery Hale, was born (d. 1938). Astronomer.
1870 - William Elwell was born. English painter.
1878 - Morreu o escritor e jornalista português Teixeira de Vasconcellos (n. 1 Nov 1816)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, was born (d. 1944). General.
1880 - France annexes Tahiti
1886 - James Van Der Zee was born (d. 1983). American photographer.
1886 - Nasceu o ex-primeiro ministro francês Robert Schuman
1888 - Realizada a primeira operação ao apêndice, pelo cirurgião inglês Frederik Treves
1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, was born. World's oldest woman
1890 - Constituição da primeira Federación de Trabajadores de la República Argentina
1891 - National Forest Service is organized.
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1895 - Morte de Floriano Peixoto (Marechal Floriano). Presidente do Brasil (1891-1894)
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, dies (b. 1825). Scientist.
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born (d. 1944). French pilot and writer.
1901 - Nelson Eddy, was born (d. 1967). American singer and actor.
1906 - Nascimento de Manuel Altolaguirre . Poeta espanhol.
1906 - Albert Sorel dies (b. 13 Ago 1842). French historian.
1908 - Leroy Anderson, was born (d. 1975). American composer.
1910 - Frank Loesser, was born (d. 1969). Composer.
1911 - Morte Eudóxio César Azedo Gneco. Jornalista e gravador, foi fundador do Partido Socialista em 10 de Janeiro de 1875.
1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) was born.
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, was born (d. 1975). Composer.
1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War. Bulgaria defeated Greek and Serbian troops.
1914 - A Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes é reconhecida como instituição de utilidade pública.
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, was born (d. 1996). Czech conductor.
1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1915 - Ruth Warrick, was born. Actress.
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time .
1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1918 - Nasce Vitorino Magalhães Godinho, professor universitário e historiador.
1919 - Slim Pickens [Louis Bert Lindley Jr.], was born (d. 8 Dec 1983). Actor, cowboy. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harm’s Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer.
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, was born. Film maker.
1920 - O Madrid Foot Ball Club ganha o título de 'Real' do rei Alfonso XIII
1921 - Reinhard Mohn, was born. Publisher.
1922 - Vasko Popa, was born (d. 1991). Yugoslav poet.
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1924 - Flo Sandon's, was born. Italian singer.
1925 - Canada House opens in London.
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
1928 - Ian Bannen, was born (d. 1999). Scottish Actor.
1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, dies (b. 1887). Actor.
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, was born. Baseball Hall of Famer .
1936 - Nascia em Lisboa, Henrique Viana. Grande actor, comediante e figura do espectáculo português
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1938 - Acácio de Almeida was born at Souto, Portugal. Cinematographer. Founder of production company "Inforfilmes"
1940 - Paul Klee, dies (b. 1879). Swiss /German artist.
1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, dies (b. 1860). Polish pianist and composer.
1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), was born. Civil rights activist
1943 - Little Eva, was born. Singer
1944 - Gary Busey, was born. Actor
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union
1951 - Don Rosa, ilustrador del Pato Donald
1952 - Joe Johnson, was born. English snooker player
1956 - Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony.
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, was born. Portuguese former prime minister (2004-05).
1956 - Charles Dumas cleared the high jump, which was set at 7’ 1/2", at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Dumas became the first athlete to break the seven-foot barrier.
1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She raised in Venezuela. After she was crowned Miss Teenager of the World, (1971) and Miss Venezuela, (1975), - 6th in Miss World 1975- she became a popular actress and singer (Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson, One of the Boys).
1958 - Rosa Mota was born. Olympics: 1984 bronze Marathon, 1988 Gold Marathon. Worlds: 1987 Gold Marathon. European: 1982, 1986 & 1990 Gold Marathon. Nascimento desta grande atleta portuguesa, uma das maiores figuras do desporto português de todos os tempos.
1958 - O Brasil conquista o seu primeiro Campeonato do Mundo de futebol ao bater na final a Suécia em Estocolmo por 5-2 ( COPA 1958, na Suécia).
1961 - Se inaugura el Estadio San Martín de Porras, propiedad de Sporting Cristal de Lima, Perú.
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, was born. Violinist.
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, dies (b. 1933). Actress.
1967 - Primo Carnera, dies (b. 1906). Boxer.
1968 - Theoren Fleury, was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
1969 - Moise Thsombe, dies. Premier of Congo
1970 - Mike Vallely, was born. Professional Skateboarder.
1970 - Premiere of "A party for Boris". In Hamburg Thomas Bernhard’s first play premiered
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, was born. English snooker player
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, was born. Erotic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, was born. Canadian rock musician and activist
1972 - Samantha Smith, was born. U.S. social activist, actress. Emigrantes (1928 ).
1974 - Morreu o escritor português Ferreira de Castro (n. 24 Mai 1898). Emigrantes (1928 ). A Selva (1930), Eternidade (1932),Terra Fria (1934), Tempestade (1940).
1974 - Na Argentina, a vice-presidente Maria Estela Martinez de Perón assume a presidência.
1975 - Nascimento, em Passos - MG, de Danton Mello (Danton Figueiredo Melo). Actor brasileiro.
1975 - Independiente se proclama campeón de Copa Libertadores por cuarta vez consecutiva. Lo hace venciendo a Unión Española de Chile, por 2 a 0, en el estadio Defensores del Chaco en Asunción, Paraguay.
1975 - Dionisio Ridruejo dies (b. 12 Out 1912). Spanish poet.
1976 - Sandhya Chib, was born. Miss Universe-India (1996).
1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1979 - Lowell George, dies (b. 1945). Musician.
1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1986 - Argentina wins the Football World Cup defeating Germany 3-2. This was the second world title for Argentine.
1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England.
1990 - Irving Wallace, dies at 74. Author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac).
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, dies. Algerian president (assassinated)
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, dies (b. 1946). Salsa music singer
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, dies (b. 1908). Conductor.
1994 - Ray Crane, dies. Trumpeter
1995 - Lana Turner, dies (b. 1921). Actress. ("A successful man is one who make more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man").
1995 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
1995 - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
1999 - Allan Carr, dies. Film producer, writer
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, dies (b. 1922). Italian actor.
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, dies (b. 1928). Singer, actress who became one of Hollywood's biggest celebrities of the 1950s, died on in her Beverly Hills mansion.
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, dies (b. 1931). Computer scientist.
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, dies (B. 1907). Actress
2004 - José Durão Barroso é oficialmente indicado para presidir à Comissão Europeia .
2004 - A UN helicopter crashed in Sierra Leone and all 24 aboard were killed.
Seychelles - Independence Day
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints) . O S. Pedro é uma festa popular também festejada em muitas localidades portuguesas. É famosa a festa de S. Pedro da Afurada, pequena povoação piscatória situada na foz e margem esquerda do rio Douro, em frente à cidade do Porto, Portugal.
Dia do Pescador (Recanto do Pescador).


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