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“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Wikiquote (Antoine De Saint-Exupery (June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944) was a French writer, poet and aviator.)
June 29th, 226
China - Kingdom of Wei:
226 - Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
Wikipedia Photo: China from NASA Wordwind Satellite; © Great Wall of China, credit National Geographic; LongJi Terrace, credit National Geographic; Great Bear Rainforest, credit Paul Nicklen, National Geographic; Platoons of clay soldiers were buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, (required a labor force of 700,000 to build), credit O. Louis Mazzatenta, National Geographic.
June 29th, 1149
Battle of Inab: Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
Wikipedia Painting: The Battle of Inab
June 29th, 1194
Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
Wikipedia Photo: Rondane National Park (Norwegian: Rondane nasjonalpark) is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962; Norwegian fjords; Norwegian Praise of Winter; Polar bears, credit National Geographics.
Wild Hunt; Åsgårdsreien, a Norse version, by Peter Nicolai Arbo.
June 29th, 1444
Battle of Torvioll: Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force.
Wikipedia Photo: The Battle of Torvioll, Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu / Skanderbeg, Fürst des Counterjihad
June 29th, 1534
Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
Wikipedia Painting: Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Théophile Hamel, 1844.
June 29th, 1644
English Civil War:
Battle of Cropredy Bridge; Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
Wikipedia Painting: English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers);
John Milton publishes Areopagitica;
Battle of Naseby, victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army;
Battle of Marston Moor, 1644;
"Cromwell at Dunbar", by Andrew Carrick Gow; Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I, painted by Van Dyck;
"And when did you last see your father?" by William Frederick Yeames.
June 29th, 1659
Battle of Konotop: the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
Wikipedia Painting: Battle of Konotop Hetman Vyhosky routes the tsar's army near Konotop, Petro Andrusiv 1659.
June 29th, 1776
Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
Wikipedia Photo: San Francisco de Asis; San Francisco, Alamo Square Victorian houses; San Francisco Gloden Gate Bridge; San Francisco Skyline.
June 29th, 1776
American Revolutionary War:
1776 - First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
June 29th, 1807
Russo-Turkish War: Battle of Athos: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet.
Wikipedia Painting: Battle of Athos1807
June 29th, 1850
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople: Autocephaly is officially granted to the Church of Greece.
Wikipedia Image Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; The spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity, Slavina Bahchevanova, Flickr.
June 29th, 1880
France records Tahiti.
Wikipedia Painting: Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women, 1899 courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ● Before Gauguin: William Hodges painting Tahiti Revisited 1776 @copy; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London / Tate.org.uk ● “A Representation of the Attack of Captain Wallis in the Dolphin by the Natives of Otaheite.” Plate no. 21 [i.e., 22], from vol. 1 of Hawkesworth’s An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (London, 1773). Princeton.edu
June 29th, 1888
George Edward Gouraud annexes Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
Wikipedia Image: Phonautograph; (April 9, 1860 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice) ● Phonograph cylinder; (George Edward Gouraud annexes Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music) ● Iconic Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph (Invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison), "His Master's Voice", The Original RCA Music Puppy Dog Logo Symbol for Advertising. credit Berverly & Pack, Flickriver.
June 29th, 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.
Wikipedia Photo: Bird of Paradis;e U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker Bird of Paradise July 1927, credit Hawaii.gov
June 29th, 1956
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
Wikipedia Photo: Ford Model T Assembly line ● Early Roads in America.
● License Plate Map.
● United States Interstate Highway System.
June 29th, 1995
Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
Wikipedia Image: Mir Space Station endured 15 years in orbit, three times its planned lifetime, credit NASA.
U2, Lockheed TR-1 in flight.
June 29th, 2006
2006 - In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the Supreme Court of the United States rules that United States President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
Wikipedia Photo: United States Supreme Court building; Guardian of Law, by James Earle Fraser, US Supreme Court, Washington, DC, USA.
June 29th, 2007
Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the IPhone (original).
Wikipedia Photo: Apple Store, credit Lukas Barth, DAPD / Associated Press, February 29, 2012 ● IPhone (original), credit Ciccarese Design.
June 29th, 2012
A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
Wikipedia Photo: A shelf cloud in a severe thunderstorm develops around 11:45am in Matteson, IL south of Chicago. In this 700-mile long “super derecho” storm cells grew in Illinois and caused a devastating path of destruction across the eastern United States all the way to Washington DC and north through New Jersey. This photo was taken not long after the storm formed in western Illinois near I-57 and US 30 (Lincoln Highway). (JoeyBLS Photography) ● Derecho storm system near Fort Supply, OK. (“People Chaser”, Douglas Berry) ● A deadly derecho strikes central Kansas in 2005. (Jim Reed, Corbis)