📜 This Day in History

June 29

• 1613The 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.
• 1832Black Hawk War: Three men working in a cornfield were attacked by Sauk Native Americans, resulting in two deaths.
• 1889Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
• 1950The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
• 1971The 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.
• 2020Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.

Born on this day

• 1798Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (died 1837)
• 1900Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (died 1944)
• 1925Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy (died 2023)
• 1957Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan