June 29 

Events

• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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

Holidays and observances

• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)

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