June 29th

June 29 is the 181st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 175 days remaining until the end of time.

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1854 Netherlands allows corporal punishment

1940 Mobsters rub out a circus team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick an orphan

1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register

1956 Federal interstate highway system act is signed

1963 "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 257 performances

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

 

1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem – the city, not the people

2009 Coalition forces in Iraq leave Baghdad.

1901 Nelson Eddy, maybe gay US singer/actor 

1962 Amanda Donahoe, gay English actress 

1965 Tony Scalia, gay US pornographic actor 

1968 Miguel Cancel, US singer/Menudo/policeman 

1969 Daniel Boissevain, Dutch actor 

1973 Samuel Ball, US actor 

1977 Will Kemp, English actor/dancer 

1979 Yehuda Levi, Israeli actor

1979 Abz Love [Richard Abidin Breen], English rapper/boyband member (5ive) 

1979 Alejo Sauras, Spanish actor 

1986 Austin Drage, English singer/actor 

1986 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], gay US actor (Illustrated Man, Our Private World), succumbs to AIDS

1997 William Hickey, gay US actor (Prizzi's Honor), can tell tales of the darkside

2003 Katharine Hepburn, bisexual US actress (A Lion in Winter), closes at sunset like a morning glory