June 29 - Working

Working

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This Day In History

1534

Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

1613

The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

1786

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

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.

1974

Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.

1995

STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

Famous Birthdays

1517

Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)

1818

Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)

1858

George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)

1861

William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)

1868

George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)

1900

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet and pioneering aviator (d. 1944)

1901

Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

1903

Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)

1910

Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)

1919

Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)

1920

Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker

1962

Amanda Donohoe, British actress

1985

Quintin Demps, American football player

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