On This Day:
Sunday June 29, 2014 This is the 180th day of the year, with 185 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: flightless birds There are a few birds that cannot fly, having completely lost the power of flight during the course of evolution. However, the close structural similarity of flightless and flying birds indicates that they all had a common flying ancestor. The rudimentary wings and flightless condition of the ostrich-like birds and the penguins is a secondary, specialized condition. Loss of flight seems to occur most often on isolated islands where there are no mammal predators. Some famous flightless birds are the emu, kiwi, ostrich, and penguin.
Holidays Seychelles: Independence Day.
Events 1566 - The Stationers Company was granted a monopoly in Great Britain.
1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1767 - The British parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on America. Colonists bitterly protested the Acts, which were repealed in 1770.
1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry made governor.
1880 - France annexed Tahiti.
1906 - Mesa Verde National Park was established.
1938 - Olympic National Park, Washington, was established.
1956 - The U.S.Interstate Highway System was born when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill providing $33.5 billion for highway construction.
1966 - In the Vietnam War, U.S. aircraft bombed the major North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time, destroying oil depots located near them.
1967 - Israel united east and west Jerusalem.
1970 - U.S. troops pulled out of Cambodia.
1974 - With Argentine President Juan Perón on his deathbed, Isabela Martinez de Perón, his wife and vice president, was sworn in as the leader of the South American country.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest manmade satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
Births 1861 - William James Mayo, American physician, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator.
1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer, librettist and lyricist.
1919 - Slim Pickens (Louis Lindley), American actor.
1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer.
1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, president of Panama from 1994 to 1999
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal from 2004 until 2005.
1967 - Jeff Burton, American race car driver.
Deaths 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist.
1933 - Fatty Arbuckle (born Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle), American silent film comedian.
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American film actress and sex symbol.
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actor.
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