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Saturday, June 29 is the 181st day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days left in the year.
Saint of the day: Saints Peter and Paul
June Proverb
If it rains on Saints Paul and Peter, it rains for a whole year
It happened today
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin in his house in Siberia
1934 – On the night between 29 and 30 June, the so-called “Night of the Long Knives” took place, a Nazi purge of the leaders of the Sturmabteilung and of Adolf Hitler’s opponents
1950 – Soccer World Cup in Brazil: In Group 2, the United States surprisingly beat England in a match that will go down in history as the “Miracle of Belo Horizonte”.
1976 – Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
2006 – On the appeal of a prisoner, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the violation of the Geneva Convention and the US Code of Military Justice in the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay
2007 – The iPhone, Apple’s revolutionary mobile phone, is launched on the US market at 6:00 p.m. local time, in all Apple Stores.
2009 – In Viareggio, a freight train composed of 14 LPG tanks derails. A gas leak occurs from one tank, causing an explosion, causing collapses and fires in houses within a radius of 200 meters. The toll is 32 dead and 25 injured.
2013 – Pope Francis publishes his first encyclical, “Lumen fidei”.
2014 – ISIS self-proclaims its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
Birthdays
Gabriel Rubini – Italian chef and activist, known by the pseudonym Chef Rubio (June 29, 1983)
Giorgio Napolitano – Italian politician, eleventh President of the Republic. Previously he had been President of the Chamber of Deputies in the
Jacopo Volpi – Italian journalist and television presenter (29 June 1957)
Peter Paul Cevoli – Italian comedian (June 29, 1958)
