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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Saturday, June 29, 2024 falls on a Saturday. It is day 181 of the year, ISO week 26, in Q2.
Today's date
Saturday, June 29, 2024 falls on a Saturday. It is day 181 of the year, ISO week 26, in Q2.
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June 29, 2024 is day 181 of 366, ISO week 26, in Q2. The moon is Last Quarter and the zodiac sign is Cancer.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2020: Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to June 29.
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Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.
An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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.
Actress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), 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.
The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
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