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, 486,432 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 ‘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

• 226 –
  Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
• 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.
• 1880 –
  France annexes Tahiti.
• 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.
• 1916 –
  The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 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.
• 1974 –
  Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
• 1976 –
  The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 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?

• 1398 –
  King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1921 –
  Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1923 –
  Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born American composer
• 1933 –
  Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1935 –
  Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1943 –
  Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1953 –
  Don Dokken, American musician (Dokken)
• 1957 –
  Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1963 –
  Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1973 –
  George Hincapie, American cyclist

Who died on June 29?

• 226 –
  Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 187)
• 1149 –
  Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch
• 1509 –
  Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• 1940 –
  Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1957 –
  Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
• 1964 –
  Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1928)
• 1973 –
  Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 –
  Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1994 –
  Jack Unterweger, Austrain serial killer (b. 1950)
• 2007 –
  Fred Saberhagen, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1930)