Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 29

• 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area and second largest in population in the United States.
• 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System (original routes pictured).
• 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.
• 1995 – During the mission STS-71, Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
• 2006 – The Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 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 the iPhone.

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Time: 23:55 UTC   Date: November 28

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Events

• 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 the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
• 2002 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
• 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. released the iPhone for the United States market.