June 29: Day Of The Week
June 29, 2013 is the 180th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
June 29 Historical Events
- 1194 –Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1786 –Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 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.
- 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 –First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1945 –Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1972 –The U.S. 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1803 –John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
- 1863 –Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
- 1900 –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1944 –Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
- 1947 –Michael Carter, British actor
- 1949 –Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
- 1963 –Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
- 1965 –Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
- 1967 –Jeff Burton, American racing driver
- 1990 –Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
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