Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 29

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 * 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and ignited the roof.
 * 1776 – The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, was fought near Cape May, New Jersey.
 * 1913 – More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
 * 1950 – The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
 * 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
 * 1971 – The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.
 * 2003 – An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
 * Born/died this day: | Óláfr Guðrøðarson|d|1153| Pedro Pacheco de Villena |b|1488| Rembert Dodoens |b|1517| Niels Kaas |d|1594| Pietro Paolo Troisi |b|1686| Ralph Allen |d|1764| Lavinia Stoddard |b|1787| Thomas Dunn English |b|1819| Ernest Fanelli|b|1860| Ludwig Beck |b|1880| Elisabet Ney |d|1907| David Rubinger |b|1924| Harmon Killebrew |b|1936| Paul Klee |d|1940| Charles Lyon Chandler |d|1962| Jorge Basadre|d|1980| Kim Little |b|1990| Lana Turner |d|1995| Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood |d|2000| Katharine Hepburn|d|2003| Jim Pappin |d|2022|