Encyclopedia > June 29
June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.
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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
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist
1933 - Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle[?], actor
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
1967 - Jayne Mansfield[?], actress
1979 - Lowell George[?]
1967 - Primo Carnera, boxer
1969 - Moise Thsombe[?], Premier of Congo
1995 - Lana Turner, actress
1999 - Allan Carr[?], film producer, writer
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, 78, Italian actor
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer, actress
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
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