Daily Calendar for June 29th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Sts. Peter & Paul

1760s

• 1767: Townshend Revenue Acts passed by British parliament, establishing duties on tea, glass, paint, oil, lead, and paper imported into American colonies

1770s

• 1776: San Francisco was founded

1850s

• Died 1852: Henry Clay (politician)

• Died 1856: Peter Jones (first native Methodist missionary to Ojibwa)

1860s

• 1860: Last stone placed for second lighthouse to be built at Minot's Ledge, Massachusetts

• Born 1861: Dr. William Mayo (surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic)

• Died 1861: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet)

1900s

• 1906: Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, containing prehistoric cliff dwellings, established by an act of Congress

1910s

• Born 1910: Frank Loesser (composer)

• Born 1919: Slim Pickens (actor)

1930s

• Died 1933: Fatty Arbuckle (actor)

• Born 1936: Harmon Killebrew (baseball player)

1940s

• Born 1944: Gary Busey (actor)

• Born 1947: Richard Lewis (comedian & actor)

1950s

• 1955: Bill Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with "Rock Around the Clock"

• Born 1957: Leslie Browne (ballerina)

1960s

• Born 1961: Kimberlin Brown (actress)

• Died 1967: Jayne Mansfield (actress)

1980s

• Born 1980: Martin Truex Jr. (race car driver)

1990s

• Died 1995: Lana Turner (actress)

2000s

• Died 2002: Rosemary Clooney (singer)

• Died 2003: Katharine Hepburn (actress)

• 2005: The Rooms cultural facility opened in St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador

• Died 2007: Joel Siegel (film critic)

• Born 2008: Twin red panda cubs born, Denver Zoo, Colorado