TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010

Today is Tuesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2010. There are 185 days left in the year.

1613 _ Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1913 _ Beginning of the Second Balkan War

1949 _ South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

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

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

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

1964 _ Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1966 _ U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near N. Vietnamese cities

1967_ Israel removes barricades, reunifying Jerusalem

1972 _ Supreme Court _ death penalty usually was ``cruel and unusual punishment"