http://modkit.eoegame.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Today_In_History_June_29Today In History June 29 - Revision history2026-05-08T10:07:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.0http://modkit.eoegame.com/index.php?title=Today_In_History_June_29&diff=24197&oldid=prevByronMcclain86: Created page with "<br>HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE<br> <br>1312 - German [http://www.google.com/search?q=King%20Henry&btnI=lucky King Henry] VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.<br>..."2020-12-30T12:46:30Z<p>Created page with "<br>HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE<br> <br>1312 - German [http://www.google.com/search?q=King%20Henry&btnI=lucky King Henry] VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.<br>..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><br>HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE<br> <br>1312 - German [http://www.google.com/search?q=King%20Henry&btnI=lucky King Henry] VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.<br> <br>1613 - The original Globe Theatre in London burns down during the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.<br> <br>1855 - The Daily Telegraph is first published in London.<br> <br>1864 - Samuel Crowther is consecrated Bishop of Niger, the first black Church of England bishop.<br> <br>1880 - The South Pacific island of Tahiti is formally annexed by France, having been a French protectorate since 1842.<br> <br>1905 - The Automobile Association is formed in London by 50 motorists to counter what they see as police hostility towards the motor car.<br> <br>1949 - South Africa begins its apartheid program by enacting a ban against racially mixed marriages.<br> <br>1965 - US paratroopers take their first offensive action in South Vietnam, attacking communist stronghold 30km northeast of Saigon.<br> <br>1966 - North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and its principal port, Haiphong, are bombed by the US for the first time in the Vietnam War.<br> <br>1967 - Israel defies international protests and unites the divided city of Jerusalem for the first time in two decades, following its victory in the Six-Day War.<br> <br>1967 - American actress Jayne Mansfield is killed in a car crash near New Orleans.<br> <br>1974 - Isabel Peron is sworn in as president of Argentina, taking over from her husband Juan Peron after he fell ill.<br><br>He died two days later.<br> <br>1980 - Vigdis Finnbogadotir is elected Iceland's president, Europe's first democratically elected woman head of state.<br> <br>1992 - Algerian head of state Mohammed Boudiaf is assassinated as he opens a cultural centre in the eastern Algerian town of Annaba.<br> <br>1994 - Prince Charles admits on television that he committed adultery during his marriage to Princess Diana but says he has no plans for a divorce.<br> <br>1995 - Lana Turner, the blonde bombshell who was discovered at a Hollywood soda fountain and became one of America's most glamorous movie stars, dies aged 75.<br> <br>2000 - A first printing of the US Declaration of Independence fetches $US8.14 million in a Sotheby's online auction, breaking the record for any sale on the internet.<br> <br>2001 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 63, is unanimously re-elected to a second term by a 189-member General Assembly.<br> <br>2003 - American actress Katharine Hepburn dies aged 96.<br><br>She won a record four best actress Oscars during a career that spanned much of the 20th century.<br> <br>2006 - Female voters in Kuwait, who won the right to vote and run for office the year before, cast ballots in parliamentary elections for the first time.<br> <br>2007 - Britain thwarts an attack in London's busy theatre district when police defuse a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails discovered in an abandoned Mercedes.<br>A second explosives-rigged car is also found nearby.<br> <br>2008 - Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe is sworn in as president for a sixth term.<br> <br>2013 - South African President Jacob Zuma expresses hope that the health of critically ill anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will improve after he was admitted to hospital three weeks earlier with a recurring lung infection.<br> <br>2014 - The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumes after a one-month adjournment during which [http://www.buzznet.com/?s=South%20African South African] mental health experts evaluated the Olympic athlete.<br> <br>2016 - Three men in Turkey, believed to be Islamic State militants, open fire then blow themselves up in Istanbul's main international airport, killing 45 people and wounding more than 230 others.<br> <br>2017 - Iraq's prime minister declares the end of the Islamic State caliphate after government troops capture the ruined mosque at the heart of the group's de facto capital Mosul.<br> <br>2018 - BAE Systems is awarded a $A35 billion contract to build nine next-generation Hunter Class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy with construction expected to begin in 2020.<br> <br>2019 - England's chief coroner clears MI5 and police of failing to prevent the 2017 London Bridge terrorist attack that killed eight people, including two Australians.<br> <br>Today's Birthdays:<br> <br>Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (1798-1837); George Washington Goethals, US builder of Panama Canal (1858-1928); Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer (1900-1944); Oriana Fallaci, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-sapa-tu-ha-noi-3-ngay-2-dem-2-ngay-1-dem-tour-sapa-ban-cat-cat-fansipan-thac-bac-ham-rong-tour-sapa-gia-re.html tour sapa giá rẻ] Italian-born journalist (1929-2006); Eddie Mabo, Australian indigenous land-rights campaigner (1936-1992); Ken Done, Australian artist (1940-); Mike Willesee, Australian journalist (1942-2019); Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer (1953-); Peter FitzSimons, Australian rugby union player and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-sapa-tu-ha-noi-3-ngay-2-dem-2-ngay-1-dem-tour-sapa-ban-cat-cat-fansipan-thac-bac-ham-rong-tour-sapa-gia-re.html tour sapa từ hà nội] author (1961-); Bret McKenzie, NZ comedian and actor (1976-); Nicole Scherzinger, US singer (1978-); Christopher Egan, Australian actor (1984-).<br> <br>Thought For Today:<br> <br>Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers - Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet (1809-1892).<br></div>ByronMcclain86