June 29

Today in History
• 1072 Former Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes blinded by rivals and exiled
• 1149 Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din
• 1377 - French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
• 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover Prince Edward Island
• 1540 - Former Lord Privy Seal Thomas Cromwell indicted as a heretic
• 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, burns down during a performance
• 1767 - British pass Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
• 1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Central Province Day
• Eid-e-Ghorban
• Fishermen's Day
• International Day of the Tropics
• National Camera Day
• National Handshake Day
• Saint Peter and Saint Paul Day
• Seychelles Independence Day

Birthdays
• 1318 - Yusuf I [al-Muayyad billah], ruler of Granada (1333-54)
• 1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (1500-17)
• 1816 - Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
• 1849 - Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06)
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer, supervised the construction of the Panama Canal
• 1861 - William James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota)
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (discovery of magnetic fields in sunspot)
• 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, politician and 1st woman to serve as a governor (Wyoming, 1925-27)