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29 June 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 29 June 2023 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Sprinter” by Dave & Central Cee.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 29 June is Cancer.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 29 June 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for June is Pearl.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 29 June 2023 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 29 June
- 1987 Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
- 1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
- 2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
- 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
Famous people born on 29 June
- Jude Bellingham, English footballer (born 2003)
- Oliver Tree, American singer-songwriter (1993–2026)
- Colin Jost, American comedian (born 1982)
- Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player (born 1991)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
- 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
- 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.
Life in 2023
Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
Monarch
Charles III
Pint of Beer
£4.80
Loaf of Bread
£1.95
Average House
£291,228
Weekly Wage
£1,035.00
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