29 Jun 1880
- Ludwig Beck was born.
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29 Jun 1917
- Miles Browning graduated from the United States Naval Academy.
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29 Jun 1934
- Adolf Hitler visited Nazi Party camps in Westphalia, Germany.
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29 Jun 1936
- The US Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act (1936) which set in place the necessary legislation to create series-production facilities for mercantile hulls. This legislation would ultimately have important consequences for the wartime Battle of the Atlantic.
- Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain.
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29 Jun 1938
- Repair ship Akashi was launched.
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29 Jun 1939
- Adolf Hitler suddenly ordered a pause to Soviet-German trade talks for unknown reason.
» In-depth article - Historical document written: No. 25: Speech by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Chatham House
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29 Jun 1940
- Operation Catapult: The British Admiralty gave Vice Admiral Somerville explicit instructions to secure the transfer, surrender, or destruction of the French warships at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria. Force H under his command consisted of battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution, battlecruiser HMS Hood, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruisers HMS Arethusa and HMS Enterprise, and 11 destroyers.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-99 was again subjected to friendly fire. Upon leaving Wilhelmshaven, Germany, she was attacked by a German aircraft with 3 bombs. She dove under the surface to avoid the bombs, but sustained minor damage when she hit the sea floor.
- German submarine U-51 sank British decoy ship HMS Edgehill with three torpedoes southwest of Ireland.
- German submarine U-26 sank Greek steamer Frangoula B. Goulandris southwest of Ireland; 6 were killed and 32 were rescued.
- US President Roosevelt departed Washington DC, United States aboard the yacht Potomac; the ship was accompanied by auxiliary vessel Cuyahoga.
» In-depth article - Adolf Hitler arrived at his headquarters at Tannenberg in southern Germany.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sank British ship Empire Toucan southwest of Ireland, which broke in half; 3 were killed and 31 were rescued. Destroyer HMS Hurricane scuttled the aft portion of the ship which remained afloat.
» In-depth article - Destroyer USS O'Brien departed Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil for Santos, Brazil.
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29 Jun 1941
- The German Army 20.Gebirgsarmee began advancing on Murmansk in northern Russia.
» In-depth article - Lord Beaverbrook became the British Minister of Supply.
- Romanian troops conducted a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000.
- Former US President Herbert Hoover warned against aiding the Soviet Union. "If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of communism on Russia.... [I]f we join the war and Stalin wins, we have aided him to impose more communism on Europe and the world."
- A haggard and tense Stalin set up a Soviet Defence Committee consisted of Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov, Beria, and himself, and then retired to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, staying there until the following day writing a speech to the Soviet people and drafting two important directives on the Soviet war effort.
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29 Jun 1942
- Saratoga returned to Pearl Harbor after ferrying aircraft to Midway.
» In-depth article - Destroyer Yuzuki departed Truk, Caroline Islands, escorting a convoy transporting airfield construction crews to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
» In-depth article - Repair ship Akashi provided repair work for destroyer Asashio at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her second war patrol.
» In-depth article - Manchukuo transferred destroyer Hai Wei to Japan. The ship was reclassified as an auxiliary escort and was renamed Kari.
» In-depth article - Photos dated 29 Jun 1942
29 Jun 1943
- The US 158th Regimental Combat Team an the US 6th Engineer Combat Company landed unopposed at Kiriwini Island, Trobriand Islands.
» In-depth article - USS S-35's starboard engine was repaired while at sea in the Kurile Islands.
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29 Jun 1944
- Richard Saul retired from the RAF.
» In-depth article - Bo Seng Lim passed away.
» In-depth article - The 70,000 remaining troops of German Armeegruppe Mitte, surrounded near Bobruisk, Byelorussia, surrendered.
» In-depth article - The last harbor fort at Cherbourg, France was captured by US troops. Meanwhile, a planned German offensive by the 2nd and 9th Panzer Divisions at Villers-Bocage, west of Caen, was abandoned when their armored columns were blasted by 260 RAF heavy bombers.
» In-depth article - A transport of 2,502 Hungarian Jews from Auschwitz Concentration Camp arrived at Stutthof Concentration Camp. On the same day, out of about 1,100 prisoners at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp with valid entry certificates for Palestine, 221 Jews were allowed to go; they would arrive in Haifa at 1700 hours on 10 Jul.
» In-depth article - Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
» In-depth article - Martti Aho was wounded in battle at Tali-Ihantala, Finland.
» In-depth article - Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt met with Adolf Hitler at Hitler's residence in Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. They urged Hitler to pursue peace, but Htiler rejected such a notion, saying that the V weapons would soon turn the tide of war.
» In-depth article - Yamato departed for Kure, Japan to receive five new triple-mount 25mm AA guns; during the installation, the entire hinoki deck would also be replaced.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - USS Tang attacked the unescorted Japanese transport Nikkin Maru between Kyushu, Japan and Dalian, China with two torpedoes without success.
» In-depth article - USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol in the South China Sea.
» In-depth article - USS Tunny arrived at Midway Atoll.
» In-depth article - USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol.
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29 Jun 1945
- Japan offered the Soviet Union fishing rights in various areas of waters on the Japanese-Russian maritime border in exchange for oil and continued to request the Soviet Union to renew the 1941 neutrality pact.
- Winston Churchill and Alan Brooke dismissed Oliver Leese and promoted William Slim to the rank of full general to succeed Leese as Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, South-East Asia.
» In-depth article - USS R-1 arrived at Groton, Connecticut, United States.
» In-depth article - USS Intensity arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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29 Jun 1946
- Biscayne was decommissioned from service.
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29 Jun 1948
- Ira Eaker was given the rank of lieutenant general in the retired list of the newly established United States Air Force.
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29 Jun 1953
- Maksim Saburov became the Chairman of State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union.
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