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- 2020-06-29GeopoliticsReddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.
- 2003-06-29DisasterAn overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
- 1995-06-29Science & TechAtlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
- 1971-06-29DisasterThe Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.
- 1967-06-29DisasterActress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
- 1950-06-29SportsThe United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
- 1927-06-29GeopoliticsThe United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
- 1913-06-29ConflictMore than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
- 1889-06-29GeopoliticsHyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
- 1864-06-29DisasterA passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.
- 1832-06-29ConflictBlack Hawk War: Three men working in a cornfield were attacked by Sauk Native Americans, resulting in two deaths.
- 1776-06-29ConflictThe first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May, New Jersey.
- 1764-06-29DisasterOne of the strongest tornadoes in history struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
- 1613-06-29Arts & CultureThe original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and ignited the roof.