Almanac for June 29th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 29th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-29-The-Feast-of-Saints-Peter-and-Paul-R5R01HQ7QE

Bummer June 29th

June 29, 1950: Ring Lardner (Jr.) reports to prison to begin his 1-year sentence for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He’ll serve nine months. 

June 29, 1967: 34-year-old American model/actress Jayne Mansfield is killed when the car she is riding in collides with the back of a tractor-trailer. Her 20-year-driver Ronnie Harrison and her attorney Sam Brody are also killed. Manfield’s three children, Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay, all of whom are riding in the back of the car, suffer only minor injuries.

June 29, 1971: Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov die aboard their Soyuz 11 space capsule when their cabin depressurizes. As of 2025, they remain the only three human beings ever to have died in space.

June 29, 1978: Hogan’s Heroes actor Bob Crane is found dead in his apartment in Scottsdale, Arizona, by a dinner theater co-worker when he fails to show up for a meeting. Crane is 49 years old.

Unknown to the public, for whom Crane was considered uncontroversial, Crane had a habit of videotaping consensual sexual encounters with women. His friend and partner in these escapades, Sony video equipment salesman John Henry Carpenter, is considered one of the primary suspects in Crane’s bludgeoning death. The weapon used to bludgeon Crane is believed to have been a camera tripod, although this has never been conclusively proven. Carpenter was tried and acquitted of the crime in 1992; he died in 1998.

June 29, 2013: 31-year-old aerialist Sarah "Sasoun" Guyard-Guillot dies of blunt force trauma after a fall while performing in the Cirque du Soleil show Kà in Las Vegas, Nevada. As she is being lifted to a catwalk, approximately 94 feet in the air, Guyard-Guillot’s harness comes free of its safety wire and she drops into a pit. Guyard-Guillot is pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.