29 June

Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837)
Italian poet. » more

William Mayo
29 June 1861 – 28 July 1939
American physician, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. » more

George Hale
29 June 1868 – 21 February 1938
American astronomer who researched magnetic fields of sun spots. » more

Alan Blumlein
29 June 1903 – 7 June 1942
English engineer who conceived stereo recording, binaural sound as he described it. » more

Rafael Kubelík
29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996
Czech composer and conductor. » more

Egon von Fürstenberg
29 June 1946 – 11 June 2004
Swiss fashion designer. Wrote ‘The Power Look’. » more

Today’s Quote
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
 … Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852)

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1966 – Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra

Today’s events
29 June 1613 – Fire destroys the original Globe Treatre (London). Rebuilt in 1614 and 1997.
29 June 1888 – Oldest surviving music recording made, recorded on a wax cylinder (by George Gouraud).
29 June 1927 – Inauguration of air service between West Coast U.S.A. and Hawaii.
29 June 1927 – Protype testing of variable pitch propellor, subsequently used on aircraft enabling reverse thrust braking.
29 June 1962 – Maiden flight of the Vickers VC-10 passenger aircraft (built by Vickers-Armstrongs, England).
29 June 1995 – The first Space Shuttle docks with the Mir Space Station, by the ‘Atlantis’ shuttle.