June 29 (original) (raw)

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.

Events

1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Rali�re Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island)
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
1922 - France grants 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1925 - Canada House opens in London
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.

1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (+ 1818)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, lyricist (+ 1837)
1861 - Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (+ 1944)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (+ 1944)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, singer (+ 1967)
1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (+ 1969)
1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (+ 1975)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (+ 1983)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
1944 - Gary Busey, actor
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)