June 29^th is:

Camera Day

Hug Day

Almond Buttercrunch Day

Waffle Iron Day

International Mud Day

National Holidays from Around the World

Switzerland – Feasts of  St. Peter and St. Paul

Italy – Feasts of  St. Peter and St. Paul

Malta – Feasts of  St. Peter and St. Paul

Peru – Feasts of  St. Peter and St. Paul

Seychelles – National Day

On This Day in HISTORY

• 1504 – Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Island in Canada
• 1613 – Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burns down
• 1767 – British Parliament approves the Townshend Revenue Acts, imposing import                      duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
• 1880 – France annexes Tahiti
• 1888 – Professor Frederick Treves performs first appendectomy in England
• 1953 – The Federal Highway Act authorizes construction of 42,500 miles of freeway
• 1987 – Vincent Van Gogh’s “Le Pont de Trinquetaille” auctioned for $20.4 million
• 1995 – Shuttle Atlantis and Mir space station form largest man-made orbiting satellite

Le Pont de Trinquetaille – Vincent Van Gogh