June 29
1613
London’s Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.
1767
The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts.
1972
The Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty could constitute “cruel and unusual” prompting some states to revise their laws.
1995
The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit Earth.
2003
Actress Katharine Hepburn died.
Birthdays
Julia Clifford Lathrop
1858–1932, American social worker and administrator, born in Rockford, Illinois, graduated Vassar, 1880.
George Goethals
engineer (1858)
George Ellery Hale
astronomer (1868)
James Van Der Zee
photographer (1886)
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
aviator (1900)
Slim Pickens
cowboy (1919)