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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