FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

Today is Friday, June 29, the 181st day of 2012. There are 185 days left in the year.

1613 ― Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1858 ― Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia

1913 ― Beginning of the Second Balkan War

1916 ― Boeing aircraft flies for first time

1946 ― British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists

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

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