February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of death June 29, 1971
The temperature on June 29, 1971 was between 9.1 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
September 3 » Qatar becomes an independent state.
October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
November 22 » In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
November 23 » Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
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