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Historical Events
on June 29th
- Lead Story
- U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station,1995
- American Revolution
- South Carolina's Edward Rutledge opposes independence,1776
- Automotive
- Actress Jayne Mansfield dies in car crash,1967
- Civil War
- Battle of Savage's Station,1862
- Cold War
- Congress votes new sanctions against China,1989
- Crime
- Boston doctor found guilty of killing wife,2001
- Disaster
- Seoul department store collapses,1995
- General Interest
- Germans advance in USSR,1941
- Vietnam air war escalates,1966
- Supreme Court strikes down death penalty,1972
- Isabela Peron takes office as Argentine president,1974
- Hollywood
- Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96,2003
- Literary
- The Globe Theater burns down,1613
- Music
- The Stones fight the law, and the law wins,1967
- Old West
- Texan William Travis prepares for war with Mexico,1835
- Presidential
- FDR writes to Manhattan Project physicist Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,1943
- Sports
- Pele helps Brazil to World Cup title,1958
- Vietnam War
- First New Zealand troops arrive,1964
- U.S. ground troops return from Cambodia,1970
- World War I
- Austria-Hungary protests shipment of U.S. munitions to Britain,1915
- World War II
- Germans capture Lvov-and slaughter ensues,1941
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