British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising. Date: June 29, 1916 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1916 📅 On This Day (Today)
France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". Date: June 29, 1922 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1922 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Date: June 29, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia. Date: June 29, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today)
Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea. Date: June 29, 1950 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1950 📅 On This Day (Today)
The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952. Date: June 29, 1952 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1952 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. Date: June 29, 1956 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1956 📅 On This Day (Today)
Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space. Date: June 29, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13. Date: June 29, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Date: June 29, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1972…