29 June History
- 1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon take Cordoba in Spain.
- 1652 - Massachusetts declares itself an independent commonwealth.
- 1767 - The British parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on America.
- 1862 - Union forces, falling back from Richmond, fight at the Battle of Savage's Station.
- 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
- 1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performs the first appendectomy in England.
- 1903 - The British government officially protests Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
- 1905 - Russian troops intervene as riots erupt in ports all over the country, leaving many ships looted.
- 1917 - The Ukraine proclaims independence from Russia.
- 1925 - An earthquake ravages Santa Barbara, California.
- 1926 - Fascists in Rome add an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.
- 1932 - Siam's army seizes Bangkok and announces an end to the absolute monarchy.
- 1938 - Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and Olympic National Park, Washington, are founded.
- 1950 - President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
- 1951 - The United States invites the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
- 1955 - The Soviet Union sends tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.
- 1966 - The U.S. Air Force bombs fuel storage facilities near Hanoi, North Vietnam.
- 1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
- 1970 - U.S. troops pull out of Cambodia.
- 1982 - Israel invades Lebanon.
29 June Birthdays
- 1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer of the Panama Canal.
- 1861 - William James Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
- 1865 - William E. Borah, Republican senator from Idaho, opponent of the League of Nations.
- 1886 - James Van Der Zee, African-American photographer.
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, aviator and writer.
- 1910 - Frank Loesser, songwriter.
- 1930 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist.
- 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, African-American civil rights leader.