History for June 29 - On-This-Day.com
George W. Goethals 1858, William Mayo 1861, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
John Toland 1912, Slim Pickens 1919, Gary Busey 1944
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.
1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.
1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1956 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1956 - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married. They were divorced on January 20, 1961.
1995 - The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
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