Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 29
This is a list of selected June 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Seychelles (1976) | unreferenced sections |
| 1194 – Sverre was crowned King of Norway. | needs more footnotes |
| 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis published a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to blame?", laying out his complaints against King George. | refimprove |
| 1880 – Pōmare V, King of Tahiti, was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti and its dependencies to France. | Pōmare V: short, unreferenced; Tahiti: refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1956 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially creating the Interstate Highway System, one of the largest public works projects in history. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapsed in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. | needs more footnotes |
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- 1149 – Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond in the Battle of Inab.
- 1444 – Albanians led by Skanderbeg scored a resounding victory in their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Torvioll.
- 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
- 1659 – Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoy at the Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.
- 1776 – The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.
- 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
- 1974 – Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later.
- 1985 – The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe, a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.
- 1995 – The Shuttle–Mir Program began when Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
- 2002 – North and South Korean patrol boats clashed along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international law.
- 2007 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone industry and made the company one of the world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
June 29: Ramadan begins (Islam, 2014); Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Christianity, Gregorian calendar)
- 1864 – Canada's worst railway accident took place when a passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area in the United States and second largest in population.
- 1914 – During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (pictured), numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.
- 1950 – In one of the greatest upsets in sporting history, the United States defeated England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
- 1974 – Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto.