{"id":15693,"date":"2022-06-29T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=210847"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:28:11","slug":"29-june-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/29-june-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"29 June: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 29 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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29 June 1509<\/h3>\n

Lady Margaret Beaufort<\/a> dies, aged 66. A widow (of Edmund Tudor) and a mother (of the future Henry VII<\/a>) by the age of 13, she had just lived long enough to see the coronation of her grandson, Henry VIII<\/a>.<\/p>\n

29 June 1613: The Globe theatre burns to the ground <\/a><\/h3>\n

Cannon fire sparks a blaze during a Shakespeare play<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that All Is True <\/em>isn\u2019t one of William Shakespeare<\/a>\u2019s best-known plays \u2013 not least because it\u2019s now more widely called Henry VIII<\/em>, and is believed to have been co-written with another playwright, John Fletcher. So its first recorded performance \u2013 at the Globe theatre on the banks of the Thames in June 1613 \u2013 might have sunk into obscurity had it not been for the disaster that brought it to an untimely end.<\/p>\n

The production company clearly wanted the play \u2013 which centres on Henry\u2019s marriage to Catherine of Aragon<\/a> \u2013 to go off with a bang. And so, at a climactic moment in the performance, a cannon was fired towards the theatre\u2019s famous open roof.<\/p>\n

The explosion certainly made an impact, but for all the wrong reasons. Sparks set the thick thatched roof smouldering and, before long, smoke was creeping through the rafters. At first, nobody in the crowd seemed to notice \u2013 according to one onlooker, \u201ctheir eyes [were] more attentive to the show\u201d \u2013 but soon the fire had become impossible to ignore. Remarkably, nobody was hurt in the blaze, though one man\u2019s breeches caught alight (his skin was literally saved when someone soaked him in beer).<\/p>\n

The Globe itself wasn\u2019t so lucky and the inferno quickly swept through the building. The theatre that had been built by Shakespeare\u2019s playing company in 1599, and had puton some of his most famous plays, was burned to cinders. | Written by Helen Carr<\/strong><\/p>\n

29 June 1612<\/h3>\n

Robert, Lord Crichton of Sanquhar was hanged at Great Palace Yard, Westminster for arranging the murder of John Turner, an English fencing master who had wounded him in a fencing match eight years earlier.<\/p>\n

29 June 1911<\/h3>\n

Birth in New York City of composer Bernard Herrmann. A frequent collaborator with film director Alfred Hitchcock, his work included the scores for Vertigo, North by Northwest<\/em> and Psycho.<\/em><\/p>\n

29 June 1941<\/h3>\n

In Iasi, Romania, the government launches one of the bloodiest anti-Jewish pogroms in history, claiming at least 13,000 lives.<\/p>\n

29 June 1950<\/h3>\n

On one of English sport\u2019s worst ever days the USA beat England 1-0 in the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and at Lord\u2019s, the West Indies beat England at cricket for the first time.<\/p>\n

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