29 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 29, the day number in a year is 180 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 181. June 29 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 29 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1149 | Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. Raymond of Poitiers (c. 1115 – 29 June 1149) was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very year that his father the Duke began his infamous liaison with Dangereuse de Chatelherault. |
| 1149 | Second Crusade-An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed theforces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond. |
| 1194 | Sverre is crowned King of Norway. Sverre Sigurdsson was the King of Norway from 1184 to 1202. He married Margareta Eriksdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Eric IX, by whom he had the daughter Kristina Sverresdotter. |
| 1444 | Skanderbeg defeated an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. Skanderbeg was a 15th-century Albanian nobleman. The Battle of Torvioll, also known as the Battle of Lower Dibra, was fought on the Plain of Torvioll, in what is modern-day Albania. Skanderbeg was an Ottoman captain of Albanian origin who decided to go back to his native land and take the reins of a new Albanian rebellion. |
| 1444 | Albanians led by Skanderbeg scored a resounding victory intheir rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1444 | Alexander Baig defeated the army of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1534 | Jacques Cartier was the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, as well as several much smaller islands.It is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population. It is the only province of Canada to have no land boundary. |
| 1613 | The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground aftera cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance ofWilliam Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof. |
| 1613 | William Shakespeare's Globe Theater was damaged by fire. |
| 1644 | Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was a battle of the English Civil Wars, between a Parliamentarian army under Sir William Waller and the Royalist army of King Charles. |
| 1659 | Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and hisallies defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoyat the Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine. |
| 1764 | A level 5 tornado reached Germany. |
| 1767 | The British passed the Townshend Revenue Act and taxed America. |
| 1776 | The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary Warwas fought at the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey. |
| 1776 | Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóufounded Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. |
| 1797 | The first ascent of the great mountain \ 4,622 \ was made in Adirondack, New York. |
| 1855 | Daily Telegraph newspaper started publication in London. |
| 1863 | The first National Bank opened in Davenport Iowa. |
| 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. |
| 1864 | Nearly 100 people were killed when a train fell into the Richelieu River on the Grand Trunk railway line near Mont St Hilary town in Quebec, Canada. |
| 1880 | France annexes Tahiti. Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia; an overseas collectivity of the French Republic, sometimes referred to as an overseas country.[3] The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts |
| 1881 | In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan. His proclamation came during a period of widespread resentment among the Sudanese population of the oppressive policies of the Turco-Egyptian rulers, and capitalized on the messianic beliefs popular among the various Sudanese religious sects of the time. |
| 1889 | Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to beannexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area in the UnitedStates and second largest in population. |
| 1905 | The Automobile Association was established in the United Kingdom. |
| 1913 | Bulgaria's war with Greece, Serbia, Monte Negro, Romania and the Osmani regime began in what is known as the Second Balkan War. |
| 1914 | During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted. |
| 1932 | The Soviet Union and China signed the Non-aggression Pact. |
| 1950 | In one of the greatest upsets in sporting history, the United States defeated England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup. |
| 1961 | Renowned freedom fighter, politician and first defense minister Sardar Baldev Singh passed away. |
| 1967 | Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and theirdriver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while herchildren Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minorinjuries. |
| 1974 | Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President ofArgentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two dayslater. |
| 1974 | Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the SovietUnion while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto. |
| 1974 | Maria Estella Isabel Martinez de Perón became the first female president of Argentina. |
| 1974 | Disneyland became the first public attraction in Anaheim, California, USA. |
| 1976 | The Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom. Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The 115-island country, whose capital is Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Southeast Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west and Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius to the south. |
| 1976 | The day is celebrated as Independence Day in this country since the Seychelles Islands gained independence. |
| 1985 | The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe, aflag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955. |
| 1991 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Organization of Cooperation of Eastern Countries \ 'Kamcon \' was dissolved. |
| 1992 | A bodyguard killed Algerian President Mohammad Bodiaf. |
| 1995 | Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. The shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. |
| 1995 | The Shuttle–Mir Program began when Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space stationMir. |
| 2002 | North and South Korean patrol boats clashed along a disputedmaritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea. |
| 2006 | The US Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v.Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bushadministration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both US andinternational law. |
| 2007 | Apple Inc. released its first mobile phone, the phone. iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. They run Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The most recent iPhone models are the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. |
| 2008 | Thomas, the world's first pregnant man, gave birth to a daughter. |
| 2008 | Thomas Beatty gave birth to a daughter, the world's first pregnant man. |
| 2012 | Around 15,000 anti-nuclear agitators surrounded the office of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. |
| 2013 | California lifts ban on gay marriage. |
Famous Birthdays of June 29:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1934 | Corey Allen / Actor / United States of America |
| 1982 | Lily Rabe / Actress / United States of America |
| 1858 | Julia Lathrop / Politician / United States of America |
| 1980 | Katherine Jenkins / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1928 | Jean-Louis Pesch / Author / France |
| 1966 | Yoko Kamio / Author / Japan |
| 1975 | Upasna Singh / Actress / India |
| 1901 | Amal Kumar Sarkar / Lawyer / India |
| 1965 | Tripp Eisen / Guitarist / United States of America |
| 1879 | Benedetto Aloisi Masella / Cardinal / Italy |
| 1928 | Ian Bannen / Actor / Scotland |
| 1962 | Amanda Donohoe / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Terry Wyatt / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Michael Nutter / Politician / United States of America |
| 1948 | Fred Grandy / Politician / United States of America |
| 1929 | Oriana Fallaci / Author / Italy |
| 1953 | Don Dokken / Writer / United States of America |
| 1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis / Economist / India |
| 1868 | George Ellery Hale / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1940 | John Dawes / Rugby Player / United Kingdom |
| 1921 | Frédéric Dard / Writer / France |
| 1956 | David Burroughs Mattingly / Painter / United States of America |
| 1882 | Henry Hawtrey / Runner / United Kingdom |
| 1916 | Ruth Warrick / Actress / United States of America |
| 1933 | John Bradshaw / Author / United States of America |
| 1525 | Peter Agricola / Humanist / Germany |
| 1981 | Luke Branighan / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1863 | Wilbert Robinson / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1911 | Bernard Herrmann / Composer / United States of America |
| 1949 | Ann Veneman / Politician / United States of America |
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