SomeFacts | June 29

On this day - June 29

226 — Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei.

1149 — Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of ...

1170 — A major earthquake hits Syria, badly damaging towns such as ...

1194 — Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his ...

1444 — Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.

1457 — The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire

1534 — Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward ...

1613 — The Globe Theatre in London, built by William ...

1620 — English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the ...

1644 — Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at ...

1659 — At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky ...

1764 — One of the strongest tornadoes in history strikes Woldegk, ...

1786 — Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic ...

1807 — Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the ...

1850 — Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate ...

1864 — At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are ...

1874 — Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in ...

1880 — France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of ...

1881 — In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the ...

1888 — George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt ...

1889 — Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be ...

1915 — The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood ...

1916 — British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is ...

1922 — France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge ...

1927 — The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, ...

1945 — The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of ...

1950 — Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea ...

1952 — The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from ...

1956 — The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. ...

1971 — Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the ...

1972 — A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter ...

1972 — The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. ...

1974 — Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada ...

1974 — Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as ...

1975 — Pope Paul VI ordains some 350 priests in St. Peter's ...

1976 — The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe ...

1976 — The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

1987 — Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de ...

1995 — The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District ...

1995 — Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with ...

2002 — Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the ...

2006 — Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that ...

2007 — Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

2012 — A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at ...

2014 — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its ...