What is June 29?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[226]] &ndash; [[Cao Pi]] dies and his son [[Cao Rui]] succeeds him as [[Emperor]] of the Kingdom of Wei in present-day [[China]]. * [[1149]] &ndash; [[Raymond of Poitiers]] is defeated and killed at the [[Battle of Inab]] by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * [[1194]] &ndash; King [[Sverre of Norway]] is crowned. * [[1534]] &ndash; [[Jacques Cartier]] becomes the first-known [[Europe]]an to reach [[Prince Edward Island]]. * [[1613]] &ndash; The [[Globe Theatre#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres|Globe Theatre]] burns to the ground. * [[1644]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] defeats a [[Parliament]]arian detachment at the [[Battle of Cropredy Bridge]]. * [[1749]] &ndash; New Governor, [[Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers]], arrives at [[Isle Royale]] ([[Cape Breton Island]]). * [[1786]] &ndash; [[Alexander Macdonnell]] and over five hundred Catholic [[highlanders]] leave [[Scotland]] to settle in [[Glengarry County]], [[Ontario]]. * [[1807]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War]]: [[Admiral]] [[Dmitry Senyavin]] destroys the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] fleet at the [[Battle of Athos]]. * [[1850]] &ndash; [[Coal]] is discovered on [[Vancouver Island]]. * [[1855]] &ndash; The [[Daily Telegraph]] [[newspaper]] is founded in [[London]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[George Custer]] is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general * [[1864]] &ndash; Ninety-nine people are killed in [[Canada]]'s worst [[railway]] [[disaster]] near [[St-Hilaire]]. * [[1880]] &ndash; [[France]] annexes [[Tahiti]]. * [[1891]] &ndash; [[National Forest Service]] is organized. * [[1891]] &ndash; Street railway in [[Ottawa]] starts running. * [[1895]] &ndash; [[Doukhobors]] burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1913]] &ndash; The [[Second Balkan War]] begins. * [[1914]] &ndash; [[Jina Guseva]] attempts to kill [[Grigori Rasputin]] at his home town in [[Siberia]]. * [[1916]] &ndash; The [[UK]] sentences Irish [[Easter Rising]] leader [[Roger C