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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul" title="Feast of Saints Peter and Paul">Feast of Saints Peter and Paul</a></b> (Western Christianity)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1613" title="1613">1613</a> – The original <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">Globe Theatre</a></b> in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect" title="Special effect">special effects</a> misfired during a performance of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)" title="Henry VIII (play)"><span class="nowrap">Henry VIII</span></a></i> and ignited the roof.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764" title="1764">1764</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764_Woldegk_tornado" title="1764 Woldegk tornado">One of the strongest tornadoes in history</a></b> struck <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldegk" title="Woldegk">Woldegk</a> (in present-day northeastern Germany), killing one person.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a> – A passenger train fell through an open <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_bridge" title="Swing bridge">swing bridge</a> into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelieu_River" title="Richelieu River">Richelieu River</a> near present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Hilaire" title="Mont-Saint-Hilaire">Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec</a>, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Hilaire_train_disaster" title="St-Hilaire train disaster">Canada's worst railway accident</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – More than 50,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate</a> veterans <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion" title="1913 Gettysburg reunion">gathered</a></b> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Battlefield" title="Gettysburg Battlefield">Gettysburg Battlefield</a>, the largest combined reunion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> veterans ever held.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Chicago_balcony_collapse" title="2003 Chicago balcony collapse">An overloaded balcony collapsed</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93l%C3%A1fr_Gu%C3%B0r%C3%B8%C3%B0arson_(died_1153)" title="Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153)">Óláfr Guðrøðarson</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1153); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fanelli" title="Ernest Fanelli">Ernest Fanelli</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1860); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Basadre" title="Jorge Basadre">Jorge Basadre</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1980); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2003)</p>
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