Today is Saturday, June 29, the 180th day of 2013. 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
1936 ― Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
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 6th World Cup at Stockholm
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 & unusual punishment”