THURSDAY, June 29, 2023

1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1767 - British pass Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America

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

1940 - U.S. passes Alien Registration Act requiring non-citizens to register with gov't

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 WWII

1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

1969 - First Jewish worship service at White House

1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain

1977 - Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adult women

1990 - Marla Maples' father sues the National Enquirer for $12M