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.
• 1534 –
  Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 –
  The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1926 –
  Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1974 –
  Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 2002 –
  Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

Who were born on June 29?

• 1803 –
  John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1906 –
  Heinz Harmel, German SS General (d. 2000)
• 1920 –
  Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1925 –
  Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
• 1930 –
  Robert Evans, American film producer
• 1932 –
  Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
• 1957 –
  Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
• 1963 –
  Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1963 –
  Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1990 –
  Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer

Who died on June 29?

• 1059 –
  Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. c. 995)
• 1840 –
  Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
• 1873 –
  Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
• 1900 –
  Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
• 1955 –
  Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
• 1975 –
  Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1995 –
  Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1999 –
  Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2004 –
  Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2007 –
  Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)