On this day in History - Jun 29

• 0067 - St. Peter dies crucified. Apostle
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark dies (b. 1218)
• 1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
• 1315 - Ramon Llull dies (b. 1235). Spanish philosopher.
• 1397 - John II of Aragon was born (d. 1479)
• 1529 - Emperor Karel V and Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
• 1540 - Thomas Cromwell was sentenced to death. English ex-chancellor
• 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
• 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.
• 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 - William IV dies. King of England.
• 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
• 1881 - Chuchle battle, a student brawl fought in a Chuchle restaurant resulting in several wounds, a swatch of Czech and German chauvinism in the late 19th century
• 1886 - James Van Der Zee was born (d. 1983). American photographer.
• 1886 - Robert Schuman was born. French Prime-Minister
• 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
• 1890 - Afonso Schmidt was born in Cubatão, São Paulo (d. 3 Abr 1964). Brazilian poet and journalist ( Janelas Abertas - 1912)
• 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 - Floriano Peixoto (Marechal Floriano) dies. President of Brazil (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.
• 1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet and publisher (La lenta libertad)
• 1905 - Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
• 1906 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet.
• 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 português.
• 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.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
• 1928 - Ian Bannen was born (d. 1999). Scottish Actor.
• 1930 - Robert Evans was born. American film director and actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
• 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 artist.
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski dies (b. 1860). Polish pianist and composer.
• 1941 - Kwame Ture (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), was born. Civil rights activist.
• 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
• 1942 - Tristão da Cunha (José Maria Leitão da Cunha, Fº.) dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 13 Mar 1878). Brazilian poet and writer (Torre de Marfim 1901)
• 1943 - Little Eva was born. Singer
• 1944 - Gary Busey was born. Actor
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union
• 1950 - In football (soccer), United States defeats England 1-0 in the Football World Cup.
• 1950 - António Francisco da Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1885). Brazilian poet (Sangue -1908).
• 1951 - Don Rosa was born. American illustrator Donald Duck
• 1952 - Joe Johnson was born. English snooker player
• 1956 - Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 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 da grande atleta portuguesa, Rosa Mota, uma das maiores figuras do desporto português de todos os tempos.
• 1958 - Brazil finally win their first world championship with a 5-2 victory against hosts Sweden in Stockholm. Vava and Pele score a brace each with Zagallo - who went on to coach Brazil to victory in the 1970 finals - scoring the other / 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.
• 1967 - José Leitão de Barros dies (b. 1896). Portuguese film director.
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Moise Thsombe dies. Premier of Congo
• 1969 - Shorty Long dies (b. 1940). American singer.
• 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.
• 1978 - Bob Crane dies murdered (b. 1928). American actor.
• 1979 - Lowell George dies (b. 1945). Musician.
• 1981 - Maria Maya was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti dies murdered. Iran ayatollah, politician
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain dies (b. 1914). French fashion designer.
• 1986 - In Mexico City Argentina wins the Football World Cup defeating Germany 3-2. This was the second world title for Argentine. Inspired by an outstanding Diego Maradona, the South Americans race into a 2-0 lead by halftime, but Germany claw their way back into the match to draw level 2-2 through Rudi Voeller's 82nd minute strike. Jorge Burrachaga scores just three minutes later though to give Argentina their second world championship.
• 1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England.
• 1990 - Irving Wallace dies (b. 1916). American author and screenwriter (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac).
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf dies assassinated. Algerian president.
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe dies (b. 1946). Salsa music singer.
• 1994 - Saaed Owairan scores one of the best goals in World Cup history. The Saudi Arabian striker gets the ball in his own half in the fifth minute, beats half the Belgian side before slotting home. The Middle East side holds on to a historic 1-0 victory.
• 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. American film producer, writer
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman dies (b. 1922). Italian actor.
• 2002 - Hakan Sukur becomes the scorer of the fastest goal at the World Cup finals. The Turkish striker finds the net 11 seconds into the Third Place playoff against South Korea. His side win the match 3-2 and sensationally finish in third place.
• 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
• 2004 - Yara Lins dies (b. 1930). Brazilian actress.
• 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).