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Today in History:
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity)
Engraving of the Woldegk tornado
- 1764 – One of the strongest tornadoes in history (pictured) struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
- 1864 – A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.
- 1889 – Hyde 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.
- 1927 – 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.
- 1995 – Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
- Ralph Allen (d. 1764)
- Elisabet Ney (d. 1907)
- David Rubinger (b. 1924)
- Jane Birdwood (d. 2000)