It happened on a… June 29

2021

Lytton, British Columbia, records Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 49.6C (121.3F), before being destroyed by a wildfire the next day.

Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks.

Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison, US maximum, for conducting massive Ponzi scheme.

Thomas Beatie, the world’s first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from Soviet Union while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet.

Beatles’ 1st song “From Me to You” hits UK charts.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor.

Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and 7 other Jesuits martyred in the 1600s; the first North American saints.

France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes ».

Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada.