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
March 11 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 285 days remaining until the end of time.
537 Goths lay siege to Rome. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun Times re-examines the fall of Rome in light of contemporary debates.
1302 Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1789 Benjamin Banneker with his lover Pierre L'Enfant begins to lay all of Washington D.C.—the horny bastards
1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein
1824 The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 Sexually ambiguous John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] takes root (date disputed) [Please note: Today is also Johnny Appleseed Day in the USA, but I think naked Zambian youth are a lot hotter!
1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts)
1953 US Air Force B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches. Remember Fort Sumter, bitches?!?
1959 Lorraine Hansberry’s "Raisin in the Sun" (1st Broadway play by a black woman) opens
1982 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat hug it out in Washington D.C.
1986 1 million days since traditional founding of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first alleged female Attorney General of the United States.
2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
1903 Lawrence Welk, US musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario
