WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. JUNE
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Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. (29. June 1914)

The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising. (29. June 1916)

France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". (29. June 1922)

Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. (29. June 1926)

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. (29. June 1927)

First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller. (29. June 1927)

The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened. (29. June 1928)

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. June 1945)

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. (29. June 1956)

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. (29. June 1972)

Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later. (29. June 1974)

Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. (29. June 1974)

Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. (29. June 1975)

The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom. (29. June 1976)

Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. (29. June 1995)

The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. (29. June 1995)

Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. (29. June 2002)

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. (29. June 2006)

Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. (29. June 2007)

A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power. (29. June 2012)