MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2009

Today is Monday, June 29, the 180th day of 2008. There are 185 days left in the year.

1613 _ Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1913 _ Beginning of the second Balkan War

1916 _ Boeing aircraft flies for first time

1949 _ South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

1949 _ U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

1958 _ Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's Sixth World Cup at Stockholm

1963 _ Beatles' first song ``From Me to You" hits the U.K. charts

1964 _ First draft of Star Trek's pilot ``The Cage" released

1977 _ Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults

1984 _ USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI