On This Day June 29th
OTD June 29th marks the significant milestone of being the one-hundred-eightieth day of the year, with 185 days remaining until the end of the year. Events 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. 1764 – One of the strongest tornadoes in history strikes Woldegk, Germany, killing one person while leveling numerous mansions with winds estimated greater than 300 miles per hour. 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. 1880 – France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie". 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker trimotor, completes the first transpacific flight from the mainland United States to Hawaii. 1956—President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act 1956, officia