June 29
Today is the 180th day of 2017, there are 185 days left in the year.
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.)
1927 - The first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as 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.
1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was ordained as a priest.
1967 - Actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.
1972 - The Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prompting some states to revise their laws.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Morrison v. Olson, upheld the independent counsel law in a 7-1 decision (the sole dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia).
1992 - A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined in the Roe v. Wade decision.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite to ever orbit the Earth.
2001 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.
2003 - Actress Katherine Hepburn died at age 96.
2006 - The 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.
2007 - The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.
2009 - Financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud.
2010 - Talk show host Larry King announced he would step down from his CNN show in the autumn after 25 years on the air.
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, and that he would not be prosecuted.
Birthdays
22 - Courtney Green (reality star)
23 - Camila Mendes (actress)
26 - Kawhi Leonard (basketball player)
35 - Lily Rabe (actress)
35 - Colin Jost (comedian)
37 - Katherine Jenkins (singer)
39 - Nicole Scherzinger (singer)
40 - Sam Bailey (singer)
73 - Gary Busey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 29
1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a 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 won their first World Cup title with a 5-2 victory over host country Sweden in Stockholm on the strength of two goals by 17-year-old Pele.
1986 - Argentina defeats West Germany 3-2 to win the World Cup.
1986 - Sparky Anderson is first to win 600 games as manager in both American baseball leagues.
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.
2004 - Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher in major league history to record 4,000 career strikeouts.
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.)
Today is the 180th day of 2017, there are 185 days left in the year.
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.)
1927 - The first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as 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.
1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was ordained as a priest.
1967 - Actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.
1972 - The Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prompting some states to revise their laws.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Morrison v. Olson, upheld the independent counsel law in a 7-1 decision (the sole dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia).
1992 - A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined in the Roe v. Wade decision.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite to ever orbit the Earth.
2001 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.
2003 - Actress Katherine Hepburn died at age 96.
2006 - The 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.
2007 - The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.
2009 - Financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud.
2010 - Talk show host Larry King announced he would step down from his CNN show in the autumn after 25 years on the air.
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, and that he would not be prosecuted.
Birthdays
22 - Courtney Green (reality star)
23 - Camila Mendes (actress)
26 - Kawhi Leonard (basketball player)
35 - Lily Rabe (actress)
35 - Colin Jost (comedian)
37 - Katherine Jenkins (singer)
39 - Nicole Scherzinger (singer)
40 - Sam Bailey (singer)
73 - Gary Busey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 29
1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a 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 won their first World Cup title with a 5-2 victory over host country Sweden in Stockholm on the strength of two goals by 17-year-old Pele.
1986 - Argentina defeats West Germany 3-2 to win the World Cup.
1986 - Sparky Anderson is first to win 600 games as manager in both American baseball leagues.
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.
2004 - Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher in major league history to record 4,000 career strikeouts.
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.)
