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Events on June 29

• 1613 The first Globe Theatre, a stage for Shakespeare's plays, burns down to its foundations.
• 1776 The opening of Mission Dolores as the first European settlement in the Bay Area marks the founding of San Francisco.
• 1850 The Sachsendreier, the first postage stamp of the Kingdom of Saxony, is issued.
• 1919 In Berlin, the first Expressionist exhibition of MERZ pictures by Kurt Schwitters opens.
• 1951 In Bayreuth, the first Richard Wagner Festival after the war is ceremonially opened.
• 1956 U.S. President Eisenhower signs the law to establish the Interstate Highways, a nationwide motorway network modeled on the German system.
• 1971 The return of the Soyuz spacecraft from the Soyuz 11 mission ends tragically. Because the breathable air on board escapes due to a malfunction, the three cosmonauts suffocate.
• 1983 Bavaria's Minister-President and CSU leader Franz Josef Strauß succeeds in getting the German federal government to guarantee a billion loan that he brokered for the GDR. The Bayerische Landesbank heads the group of lending banks as the consortium's lead bank.
• 1986 In the final of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Argentina becomes world champion with a 3:2 victory over Germany.
• 1995 In the German Bundestag, a new abortion law is passed with a two-thirds majority, permitting an abortion within the first three months if the pregnant woman has sought advice beforehand.
• 2008 In the final of the UEFA European Championship in Austria and Switzerland, the Spanish national football team defeats Germany 1:0 at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna and thereby becomes European champion again after 44 years.
• 2017 The capital sharp S (ẞ) becomes part of the official German spelling.

Born on June 29

• 1880 Ludwig Beck, German general and resistance fighter
• 1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer and aviator
• 1911 Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, German nobleman and prince consort of the Netherlands
• 1921 Reinhard Mohn, German entrepreneur
• 1930 Ernst Albrecht, German politician
• 1932 Ror Wolf, German writer
• 1951 Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, German transport scientist
• 1960 Karsten Speck, German entertainer and actor
• 1971 Monika Gruber, German actress and cabaret performer
• 1990 Phil Laude, German-Austrian comedian

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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