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, 1,719,619,200 seconds 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
- 1613 –The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1807 –Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1850 –Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 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.
- 1895 –Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 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.
- 1976 –The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1995 –Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1908 –Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1912 –Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- 1954 –Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1968 –Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 –Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
- 1976 –Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
- 1980 –Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
- 1981 –Joe Johnson, American basketball player
- 1986 –Iya Villania, Filipino actress
- 1988 –Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
Who died on June 29?
- 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)
- 1921 –Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- 1931 –Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
- 1940 –Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1955 –Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
- 1995 –Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1999 –Karekin I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
- 2002 –Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2006 –Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
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