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Monday, June 29, 1998
- The United Auto Workers holds its triennial constitutional convention in Las Vegas.
- On Tuesday, June 30, President Clinton is to meet with community leaders from the Shanghai area, including the Chinese city's mayor.
- On Wednesday, July 1, the family of Princess Diana is scheduled to open
to the public her childhood home and burial site in England.
- On Thursday, July 2, University of Pittsburgh physics professor David
Willey will try to set a new distance record for walking on hot
coals.
- On Friday, July 3, U.S. President Bill Clinton is to address business and
local leaders of Hong Kong and hold a news conference before
returning to Washington.
- On Saturday, July 4, fireworks displays throughout much of the United States light up the skies to mark American Independence.
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- The Seychelles Islands mark Independence Day.
- The Vatican, Rome, Chile, Peru and Colombia observe Saints Peter and Paul's Day.
- Ukraine marks Constitution Day observance.
- Tahiti observes Independence Day.
- Actor Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story) is 54.
- Elizabeth Dole is 62.
- Former baseballer Pedro Guerrero is 42.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew is 62.
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In 1613, the original Globe Theater in London burned down during the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
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In 1855, the Daily Telegraph was first published in London.
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In 1868, the British news agency the Press Association was founded.
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In 1880, the Pacific island of Otaheite, now better known as Tahiti, was formally annexed by France, having been a French protectorate since 1842.
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In 1916, Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death for conspiracy with Germany.
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In 1943, Germany began to withdraw its U-Boats from the North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe; U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea.
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In 1966, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time in the Vietnam war.
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In 1967, Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer), the U.S. film actress, was decapitated in a car crash near New Orleans.
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In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was contrary to the constitution.
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In 1974, Isabel Peron was sworn in as president of Argentina, taking over from her husband Juan Peron who became ill.
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In 1978, Vietnam became the 10th member of COMECON.
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In 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadotir was elected Iceland's president, Europe's first democratically elected woman Head of State.
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In 1981, Hu Yaobang succeeded Hua Guofeng as Chinese Communist Party chairman.
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In 1990, Lithuania suspended its declaration of independence for 100 days, pending sovereignty talks with Moscow.
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In 1992, Algerian head of state Mohamed Boudiaf was assassinated as he opened a cultural center in the eastern Algerian town of Annaba.
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In 1994, Japan's parliament chose Socialist Tomiichi Murayama as prime minister at the head of a three-party alliance dominated by conservatives.
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In 1995, a department store in Seoul collapsed killing 502 people in South Korea's worst peacetime disaster.
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In 1996, the Bosnian Serb ruling Democratic Party re-elected Radovan Karadzic as leader.
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