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, 477,672 hours 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.
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
- 1194 –Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1659 –At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- 1850 –Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 1874 –Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
- 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.
- 1916 –The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1927 –First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1928 –The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1475 –Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
- 1844 –Peter I, King of Serbia, founding father of Yugoslavia (d. 1921)
- 1881 –Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1886 –James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
- 1929 –Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
- 1955 –Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
- 1957 –Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
- 1965 –Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
- 1968 –Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 –Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver
Who died on June 29?
- 1744 –André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
- 1831 –Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer (b. 1757)
- 1840 –Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
- 1853 –Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
- 1895 –Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
- 1921 –Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- 1978 –Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1994 –Jack Unterweger, Austrain serial killer (b. 1950)
- 2006 –Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
- 2007 –Fred Saberhagen, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1930)
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