Historical events on June 29
JUNE 29, 1864
A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.
A swing bridge is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural
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JUNE 29, 1889
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
Hyde Park Township is a former civil township in Cook County, Illinois, United States that existed as a separate municipality from 1861
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JUNE 29, 1913
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states,
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JUNE 29, 1613
The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and ignited the roof.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the
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JUNE 29, 1776
The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May, New Jersey.
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms
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JUNE 29, 1967
Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her
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JUNE 29, 1995
Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the
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JUNE 29, 1971
The 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.
Soyuz 11 was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov,
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JUNE 29, 1927
The 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.
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941.
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JUNE 29, 1764
One of the strongest tornadoes in history (pictured) struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
The 1764 Woldegk tornado was a powerful tornado that is claimed to be one of the strongest tornadoes ever documented in history,
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JUNE 29, 2003
An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
On June 29, 2003, an overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in a Chicago, Illinois apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously
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JUNE 29, 1950
The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
The United States men's national soccer team (USMNT), officially recognized as USA by FIFA, represents the United States in men's international soccer.
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