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 180th 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.
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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.
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June 29 Historical Events
- 226 –Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149 –Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613 –The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1864 –Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 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.
- 1927 –First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1956 –The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1920 –César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
- 1922 –Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
- 1928 –Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
- 1936 –Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1939 –Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1968 –Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
- 1981 –Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1985 –Quintin Demps, American football player
- 1988 –Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
- 1990 –Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
Who died on June 29?
- 1725 –Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
- 1779 –Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
- 1921 –Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- 1931 –Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
- 1967 –Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
- 1978 –Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1982 –Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
- 2002 –Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2003 –Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2007 –Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
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