June 29 -- News and History

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:06 PM EDT

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""" Pakistan holds by-elections, with the contest for one seat delayed by the Supreme Court until it can handle the appeal of disqualified candidate Nawaz Sharif (pictured), former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). In District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court rules that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms, with possible consequences for existing gun control laws. A land transfer to the Amarnath shrine, sacred to Shiva in Hinduism, sparks violent protests in Srinagar and other parts of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. A U.S. appeals court rules that Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uyghur militant currently detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, cannot be ruled an "enemy combatant" because he never took up arms against the United States. Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdraws his candidacy from the June 27 run-off presidential election as election-related violence escalates. """

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June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year

Holidays and observances

Seychelles - Independence Day.

The Netherlands - Veterans Day.

Malta - l-Imnarja

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers

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June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Roman Catholicism)

1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.

1880 – Pomare V, King of Tahiti, was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti and its dependencies to France.

1956 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially

creating the U.S. Interstate Highway System, one of the largest public works projects in history. 1995 – Shuttle-Mir Program: During the STS-71 mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir (pictured). 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international law. ""

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