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Daily Calendar for Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Died

  • Henry Clay (politician)
  • Peter Jones (first native Methodist missionary to Ojibwa)
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet)
  • Fatty Arbuckle (actor)
  • Jayne Mansfield (actress)
  • Lana Turner (actress)
  • Rosemary Clooney (singer)
  • Katharine Hepburn (actress)
  • Joel Siegel (film critic)

Born

  • Dr. William Mayo (surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic)
  • Frank Loesser (composer)
  • Slim Pickens (actor)
  • Harmon Killebrew (baseball player)
  • Gary Busey (actor)
  • Richard Lewis (comedian & actor)
  • Leslie Browne (ballerina)
  • Kimberlin Brown (actress)
  • Martin Truex Jr. (race car driver)

Events

  • Townshend Revenue Acts passed by British parliament, establishing duties on tea, glass, paint, oil, lead, and paper imported into American colonies
  • San Francisco was founded
  • Last stone placed for second lighthouse to be built at Minot’s Ledge, Massachusetts
  • Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, containing prehistoric cliff dwellings, established by an act of Congress
  • Bill Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with Rock Around the Clock”“
  • The Rooms cultural facility opened in St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador

Weather

  • Lake Havasu City, Arizona, had a temperature of 128 degrees F
  • Residents in Monticello, Florida, sweltered in record-breaking 109F heat.
  • Hurricane Alice dumped 27 inches of rain on the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas
  • The Livingston (Alberta) Ranger Station received 44 inches of snow, making the record for the largest summer snowfall recorded in Canada

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