1956
Jun 29, Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony.

1967
Jun 29, Jayne Mansfield (b.1933), stage and film actress, was beheaded in a car crash in Louisiana. Her 3 children survived in the back seat of the 1966 Buick Electra. Daughter Mariska Hargitay was 3 and began a film career at 19.

1987
Jun 29, Elizabeth Cotton (1895-1987), American blues singer, died in Syracuse, NY. She composed “Freight Train" in the early 1900s when she saw a train pass by her house on Lloyd Street in Carrboro, North Carolina. The song was copyrighted in 1957. The first recording of the song was made by Mike Seeger in 1957–1958, at Elizabeth’s home in Washington, D.C.

1995
Jun 29, Actress Lana Turner died in Century City, California, at age 74.

2000
Jun 29, Iraq said US and British warplanes bombed North Rumeila and killed a woman shepherd and injured her husband.

2002
Jun 29, Rosemary Clooney (74), singer who became one of Hollywood's biggest celebrities of the 1950s, died on in her Beverly Hills mansion due to complications from lung cancer. Her 1977 autobiography was titled "This for Remembrance."

2003
Jun 29, Katharine Hepburn (b.1907), film actress, died at Old Saybrook, Conn. Her Oscars were for "Morning Glory" (1933); "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967); "The Lion in Winter" (1968); and "On Golden Pond" (1981). Her books included "Me: Stories from My Life" (1991). In 2006 William J. Mann authored “Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn."

2005
Jun 29, Philippine Pres. Gloria Macagapal Arroyo said her husband, implicated in bribes and influence peddling, has agreed to leave the Philippines.

2006
Jun 29, A US federal advisory committee recommended that all 11-12 year-old girls receive immunization with Merck’s Gardasil, a new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.

2006
Jun 29, Women in Kuwait voted in parliamentary elections for the first time, a vote that also inspired surprisingly vocal calls for reform and criticism of the ruling family. The elections were a victory for political reformists but a disappointment for female candidates, none of whom won a seat. The opposition won a big majority.

2012
Jun 29, China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang (33), and two other crew members emerged smiling from the Shenzhou 9 capsule that returned safely to Earth from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station.