June 29
1520 - Montezuma II, the ninth and final emperor of the Aztecs, died in Tenochtitlan under unclear circumstances. (Some say he was killed by his own subjects; others say by the Spanish.)
1613 - London's Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII".
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament to repeal the duties -- except for tea.)
1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1927 - The first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger arrived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii aboard the Bird of Paradise, an Atlantic-Fokker C-2, after flying 2,400 miles from Oakland, California, in 25 hours, 50 minutes.
1946 - Authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp out extremists.
1967 - Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
1970 - The United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a trio of death sentences, saying the way they had been imposed constituted "cruel and unusual punishment." (The ruling prompted states to effectively impose a moratorium on executions until their capital punishment laws could be revised.)
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite to ever orbit Earth.
2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died in Fenwick, Connecticut at age 96.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-3, that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.
2009 - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year prison sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2012 - A day after the House voted to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department said Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress did not constitute a crime.
2017 - A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban took effect, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide; the new rules tightened already-tough visa policies affecting citizens from six Muslim-majority countries.
2018 - The Annapolis Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland kept its promise to put out the day’s paper, despite the shooting deaths of five people in its newsroom a day earlier.
Birthdays
28 - Camila Mendes (actress)
31 - Kawhi Leonard (basketball player)
39 - Aundrea Fimbres (singer)
40 - Lily Rabe (actress)
40 - Colin Jost (actor/comedian)
44 - Nicole Scherzinger (singer)
44 - Luke Kirby (actor)
45 - Will Kemp (actor)
49 - Lance Barber (actor)
51 - Christina Chang (actress)
54 - Brian D'Arcy James (actor)
55 - Melora Hardin (actress)
58 - Kathleen Wilhoite (actress)
59 - Judith Hoag (actress)
60 - Amanda Donohoe (actress)
61 - Sharon Lawrence (actress)
61 - Kimberlin Brown (actress)
67 - Maria Conchita Alonso (actress)
69 - Don Dokken (singer)
75 - Richard Lewis (actor/comedian)
78 - Gary Busey (actor)
79 - Garland Jeffreys (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 29
1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against the Louisville Colonels, setting a MLB record for runs scored by a team in a single game.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922.
1958 - Brazil defeated Sweden 5-2 to win the World Cup; Pele, age 17, scored a goal in the game.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes just the fourth player in MLB history to hit three or more home runs in a game twice in the same season.
1977 - Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits his 400th career home run.
1984 - Pete Rose surpasses Carl Yastrzemski by playing in his record 3,309th career game.
1986 - Argentina defeats West Germany 3-2 in front of nearly 115,000 spectators to win the World Cup.
1986 - Sparky Anderson becomes the first MLB manager to win 600 games in each league.
1994 - The Milwaukee Bucks select Purdue forward Glenn Robinson with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the IBF heavyweight title after refusing to fight Axel Schulz.
1998 - With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.
2012 - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency filed formal charges against Lance Armstrong, accusing the seven-time Tour de France winner of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout the best years of his career. (The USADA ended up stripping Armstrong of all his Tour de France titles and issued a lifetime ban from cycling.)
1520 - Montezuma II, the ninth and final emperor of the Aztecs, died in Tenochtitlan under unclear circumstances. (Some say he was killed by his own subjects; others say by the Spanish.)
1613 - London's Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII".
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament to repeal the duties -- except for tea.)
1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1927 - The first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger arrived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii aboard the Bird of Paradise, an Atlantic-Fokker C-2, after flying 2,400 miles from Oakland, California, in 25 hours, 50 minutes.
1946 - Authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp out extremists.
1967 - Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
1970 - The United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a trio of death sentences, saying the way they had been imposed constituted "cruel and unusual punishment." (The ruling prompted states to effectively impose a moratorium on executions until their capital punishment laws could be revised.)
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite to ever orbit Earth.
2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died in Fenwick, Connecticut at age 96.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-3, that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.
2009 - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year prison sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2012 - A day after the House voted to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department said Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress did not constitute a crime.
2017 - A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban took effect, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide; the new rules tightened already-tough visa policies affecting citizens from six Muslim-majority countries.
2018 - The Annapolis Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland kept its promise to put out the day’s paper, despite the shooting deaths of five people in its newsroom a day earlier.
Birthdays
28 - Camila Mendes (actress)
31 - Kawhi Leonard (basketball player)
39 - Aundrea Fimbres (singer)
40 - Lily Rabe (actress)
40 - Colin Jost (actor/comedian)
44 - Nicole Scherzinger (singer)
44 - Luke Kirby (actor)
45 - Will Kemp (actor)
49 - Lance Barber (actor)
51 - Christina Chang (actress)
54 - Brian D'Arcy James (actor)
55 - Melora Hardin (actress)
58 - Kathleen Wilhoite (actress)
59 - Judith Hoag (actress)
60 - Amanda Donohoe (actress)
61 - Sharon Lawrence (actress)
61 - Kimberlin Brown (actress)
67 - Maria Conchita Alonso (actress)
69 - Don Dokken (singer)
75 - Richard Lewis (actor/comedian)
78 - Gary Busey (actor)
79 - Garland Jeffreys (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 29
1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against the Louisville Colonels, setting a MLB record for runs scored by a team in a single game.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922.
1958 - Brazil defeated Sweden 5-2 to win the World Cup; Pele, age 17, scored a goal in the game.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes just the fourth player in MLB history to hit three or more home runs in a game twice in the same season.
1977 - Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits his 400th career home run.
1984 - Pete Rose surpasses Carl Yastrzemski by playing in his record 3,309th career game.
1986 - Argentina defeats West Germany 3-2 in front of nearly 115,000 spectators to win the World Cup.
1986 - Sparky Anderson becomes the first MLB manager to win 600 games in each league.
1994 - The Milwaukee Bucks select Purdue forward Glenn Robinson with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the IBF heavyweight title after refusing to fight Axel Schulz.
1998 - With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.
2012 - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency filed formal charges against Lance Armstrong, accusing the seven-time Tour de France winner of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout the best years of his career. (The USADA ended up stripping Armstrong of all his Tour de France titles and issued a lifetime ban from cycling.)
