June 29 1149 Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
June 29 1444 Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
June 29 1644 Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
June 29 1659 The Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
June 29 1807 Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
June 29 1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
June 29 1863 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
June 29 1880 France annexes Tahiti.
June 29 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
June 29 1944 German counter attack at Caen
June 29 1944 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
June 29 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
June 29 1950 Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
June 29 1952 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn
June 29 1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
June 29 1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
June 29 1974 Military coup in Ethiopia
June 29 1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
June 29 2002
Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of
six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
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