What happend on 29th June

28.06
30.06
1914

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

1905

Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.

1895

Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

1891

United States National Forest Service is organized.

1880

France annexes Tahiti

1864

Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

1863

George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general

1850

Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.

1786

Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

1749

New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).