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June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.

	512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
	1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
	1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
	1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
	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.
	1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
	1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
	1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
	1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
	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?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
	1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
	1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
	1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
	1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
	1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat 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."
	1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
	1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
	1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
	1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
	Atlantis docked to Mir on June 29, 1995.1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
	1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
	1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
	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-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
	2002 - Vice President Dick Cheney briefly assumed the duties and responsibilities of the President when President George W. Bush underwent a medical exam involving anesthetics
	2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.

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