^B{^#!16!29 June^N! Feast day of St Peter, St Paul, St Elwin, Saints Judith and Salome, and St Cassius of Narni.
^B{1613 ^B}The Globe Theatre was destroyed by fire. ^B{1880 ^B}France annexed Tahiti. ^B{1943 ^B}US forces landed in New Guinea. ^B{1945 ^B}Czechoslovakia ceded Ruthenia to the USSR. ^B{1949 ^B}The US completed its withdrawal of occupying forces from South Korea. ^B{1949 ^B}British dock strike. ^B{1949 ^B}The South African Citizenship Act suspended the automatic granting of citizenship to Commonwealth immigrants after five years, and imposed a ban on mixed marriages between Europeans and non-Europeans - the beginning of the Apartheid program. ^B{1954 ^B}Following the meeting of President Eisenhower and Winston Churchill in Washington the Potomac Charter, or six-point declaration of western policy, was issued. ^B{1965^B} US troops took offensive action for the first time against North Vietnamese forces.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Peter Paul Rubens, English painter, ^B{1577^B}: Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, ^B{1798^B}: George Ellery Hale, US astronomer, ^B{1868^B}: Antoine de Saint-ExupΘry, French author and aviator, ^B{1900^B}: Nelson Eddy, US singer and film actor, ^B{1901^B}: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, ^B{1911^B}. ^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Margaret, Countess of Richmond (The Lady Margaret), ^B{1509^B}: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, ^B{1861^B}: T H Huxley, English biologist, ^B{1895^B}: Albert Sorel, French historian, ^B{1906^B}: Paul Klee, Swiss painter, ^B{1940^B}: Ignaz Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, ^B{1941^B}: Jayne Mansfield, US film actress, ^B{1967^B}. ^B}