On This Day: 29 June

29 June in world history

• 2020Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.
• 2006Hamdan 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.
• 1995Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
• 1986The Argentina national football team wins the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico after defeating the West Germany national football team by a score of 3–2 in the final at the Estadio Azteca.
• 1974Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.
• 1972The 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.
• 1972A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.
• 1971The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.
• 1950The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
• 1945The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
• 1927The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
• 1913More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
• 1864At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1832Black Hawk War: Three men working in a cornfield were attacked by Sauk Native Americans, resulting in two deaths.
• 1776The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May, New Jersey.
• 1659At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
• 1613The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
• 1194Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.

Born on 29 June

• 1957Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1949Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1893Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (died 1972)India
• 1890Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (died 1970)
• 1886Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1963)

Died on 29 June

• 2021Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1932)
• 2011K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic (born 1904)India
• 1873Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (born 1824)India
• 1153Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 29 June in history?

2020: Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company. 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. 1995: Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program. 1986: The Argentina national football team wins the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico after defeating the West Germany national football team by a score of 3–2 in the final at the Estadio Azteca.

Which famous people were born on 29 June?

Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1957); Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona (1949); Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture (1949); Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (died 1972) (1893).

Which day is observed on 29 June?

National Statistics Day; National Statistics Day (India); Engineer's Day (Ecuador); Independence Day (Seychelles), celebrates the independence of Seychelles from the United Kingdom in 1976.; Veterans' Day (Netherlands).