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Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity) Engraving of the Woldegk tornado 1764 – One of the strongest tornadoes in history (pictured) struck Woldegk in present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person. 1864 – A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident. 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population. 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. 1995 – Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program. Ralph Allen (d. 1764) Elisabet Ney (d. 1907) David Rubinger (b. 1924) Jane Birdwood (d. 2000) More anniversaries: June 28 June 29 June 30