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• ... that the Siamese method (example pictured) is a simple method for creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la Loubère's embassy to Siam?
• ... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
• ... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
• ... that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II?
• ... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
• ... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
• ... that the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
  

• Pakistan holds by-elections, with the contest for one seat delayed by the Supreme Court until it can handle the appeal of disqualified candidate Nawaz Sharif (pictured), former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
• In District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court rules that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms, with possible consequences for existing gun control laws.
• A land transfer to the Amarnath shrine, sacred to Shiva in Hinduism, sparks violent protests in Srinagar and other parts of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
• A U.S. appeals court rules that Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uyghur militant currently detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, cannot be ruled an "enemy combatant" because he never took up arms against the United States.
• Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdraws his candidacy from the June 27 run-off presidential election as election-related violence escalates.

June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Roman Catholicism)

• 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
• 1880 – Pomare V, King of Tahiti, was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti and its dependencies to France.
• 1956 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, officially creating the U.S. Interstate Highway System, one of the largest public works projects in history.
• 1995 – Shuttle-Mir Program: During the STS-71 mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir (pictured).
• 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international law.

More events: June 28 – June 29 – June 30