Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 29
June 29, 2024 is the 181st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 29
- 1444 –Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1644 –Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1786 –Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1850 –Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 1864 –Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1889 –Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- 1895 –Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1914 –Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1926 –Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1995 –The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1475 –Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
- 1881 –Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1888 –Joseph ‘Squizzy’Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
- 1912 –Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- 1914 –Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
- 1922 –Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
- 1949 –Ann Veneman, American politician
- 1955 –Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
- 1982 –Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- 1988 –Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
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