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Historical Events on June 29

226
Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
1149
Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194
Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1444
Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1534
Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613
The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
1644
Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
1659
At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1786
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807
Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1850
Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1864
Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874
Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880
France annexes Tahiti.
1881
In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888
George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
1915
The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1916
British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922
France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1927
The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1945
Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1950
U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
1956
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972
The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974
Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina.
1974
Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975
Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1976
The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976
The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
1995
Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995
The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002
Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007
Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2012
A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

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