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This day in history: June 29

1. 1927

   The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.

2. 1950

   The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.

3. 1967

   Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.

4. 1971

   The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.

5. 1995

   Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.

6. 2003

   An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.

7. 2020

   Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.

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