On This Day for June 29 - London's Globe Theatre destroyed by fire, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-29 10:02 Updated: 2020-06-29 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 29

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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

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London's Globe Theatre destroyed by fire

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Bernie Madoff (centre) leaving a federal court in New York, 2009.

2009: American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff received a sentence of up to 150 years in prison for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

2007: Apple Inc.'s first mobile “smartphone,” the iPhone, went on sale, and it revolutionized the industry. [ Take our computers and technology quiz.]

2003: American actress Katharine Hepburn—a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity who introduced into her roles a strength of character previously considered to be undesirable in Hollywood leading ladies—died in Connecticut. [Test your knowledge of A-list actors.]

1974: While on tour with the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet in Toronto, Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union, citing artistic reasons, and he later settled in the United States. [Sort fact from fiction in our ballet quiz.]

1941: Stokely Carmichael, a civil rights activist and a leader of black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. [ Read about 10 milestones in U.S. civil rights history.]

1767: The Townshend Revenue Act, an import tax on tea and other goods, was imposed on the American colonists by British Chancellor Charles Townshend, bringing the Americans one step closer to revolution. [ Test your knowledge of early American history.]

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1900

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French author

1941

Stokely Carmichael
West Indian-American activist

1920

Ray Harryhausen
American filmmaker

1911

Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor

1957

Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov
president of Turkmenistan