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29th June

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1941: Germans advance in Russia


One week after launching a massive invasion of the USSR, Nazi divisions make staggering advances on Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had ignored warnings that Adolf Hitler would betray the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, and in the first months of their invasion the Germans seized over 500,000 square miles of Soviet territory. However, the tenacity of the Red Army and the severity of the Russian winter had yet to be experienced by the Germans and both of these would eventually prove insurmountable.

2003

Four-time Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn dies aged 96.

2001

The British government announces that a memorial fountain will be built in memory of Princess Diana.

1995

The US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station delivering a relief crew.

1995

More than 500 people are killed when a department store collapses in Seoul, South Korea.

1989

America passes sanctions against China in response to the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1986

Entrepreneur Richard Branson breaks the world record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic. Travelling in a speed-boat Branson beat the existing record by two hours.

1976

The Seychelles gains independence from Britain.

1974

Maria Estela Isabel Martinez de Peron is sworn in as interim leader of Argentina.

1972

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that capital punishment, as it is currently employed on the state and federal level, is unconstitutional.

1970

The Vietnam War: U.S. troops withdraw from their incursion into Cambodia.

1966

The Vietnam War: U.S. bombers bomb the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time.

1960

Opening of the BBC Television Centre in London.

1958

Brazil win football's World Cup beating Sweden 5-2 in the final in Stockholm. A young 17 year old Pele scores two goals in the final.

1644

Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge in England.

1613

The original Globe Theatre in London burns down after a cannon is fired during a performance of a Shakespearean play and sets fire to the straw roof.

1993

American Siamese twins Angela & Amy Lakeberg - separated on August 20th.

1962

English actress Amanda Donohoe.

1945

American singer Little Eva - born Eva Boyd in North Carolina, USA.

1941

Black American civil rights activist Stokeley Carmichael.

1901

American singer and actor Nelson Eddy.

1577

Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.

2003

Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn dies aged 96.

1995

Hollywood actress Lana Turner aged 75.

1967

Actress Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash aged 34.

1933

American silent screen comedy actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle aged 46.

1906

Albert Sorel aged 64.

1841

American journalist and explorer Sir Henry Moreton Stanley.