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Daily Trivia - June 29
Births1397 - King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher, author and theologian (d. 1868)
1849 - John Hunn, American businessman and politician (d. 1926)
1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 - William Mayo, American physician and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and lifetime senator
1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American television and film actress
1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw, American educator, theologian, and author
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
1941 - Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), American civil rights activist and Black Panther member (d. 1998)
1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, President of Panama from 1994 to 1999
1947 - Richard Lewis, American Comedian
1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program, Johnson Space Center
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1960 - Evelyn King, American singer
1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German citizen imprisoned in the "War on Terror"
1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician (Murderdolls, Static-X, and Dope)
1967 - Jeff Burton, auto racer
1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician and activist
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1972 - Samantha Smith, American activist and actress (d. 1985)
1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Andrew O'Brien, Irish footballer
1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
Deaths69 - Saint Peter, Apostle and First Bishop of Rome
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1960 - Frank Patrick, Professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (murdered) (b. 1928)
1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b.1919)
Events1149 - 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.
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1863 - George Armstrong Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brevet brigadier general.
1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
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.
1905 - Moonlight Graham makes his only Major League Baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
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.
1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
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.
1956 - Marilyn Monroe marries American playwright Arthur Miller.
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.
2000 - Vandals break into the tombs of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines.
2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
HolidaysSeychelles - Independence Day.
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
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