Five Fascinating Facts From History on June 29

Are you like me and enjoy learning new things daily? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as from some of my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine.

These events for today’s blog post are primarily from The People History.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping families buy and sell Silicon Valley dream homes for sale in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga. They just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s Five Fascinating Facts From History on June 29.

•          1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.  
•          1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
•          1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
•          1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
•          1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.

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