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Old 06-29-2016, 01:19 PM   #148
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1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.

1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco, CA.

1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada.

1880 – France annexes Tahiti.

1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

1927 – 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.

First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller.

1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.

1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of the Apple I computer.

1985 - John Lennon's 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine, with psychedelic paintwork, sold for a record sum of $3,006,385, (£1,768,462) at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

1988 - Brenda Richie, the wife of Lionel Richie was arrested in Beverly Hills, California after allegedly hitting the singer and a young woman after she found them in bed together.

1999 - Michael Jackson suffered severe bruising after falling over 50 feet when a bridge collapsed during a concert at Munich's Olympic stadium.

2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

Births

1861 – William James Mayo (co-founder Mayo Clinic); 1901 – Nelson Eddy; 1910 – Frank Loesser; 1919 – Slim Pickens; 1920 – Ray Harryhausen; 1930 – Robert Evans; 1936 – Harmon Killebrew; 1943 – Little Eva; 1944 – Gary Busey; 1948 – Fred Grandy, Ian Paice (Deep Purple); 1949 – Dan Dierdorf; 1953 – Don Dokken, Colin Hay; 1957 – María Conchita Alonso; 1957 – Michael Nutter; 1961 – Sharon Lawrence; 1967 – Jeff Burton (NASCAR driver); 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger; 1980 – Martin Truex Jr. (NASCAR driver)

Deaths

1852 – Henry Clay; 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1933 – Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle; 1940 – Paul Klee; 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski; 1967 – Jayne Mansfield; 1975 – Tim Buckley; 1978 – Bob Crane; 1979 – Lowell George; 1995 – Lana Turner; 1997 – William Hickey; 2002 – Rosemary Clooney; 2003 – Katharine Hepburn; 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, Joel Siegel; 2008 – Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1); 2013 – Victor Lundin (Star Trek's first Klingon)
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