June 29

In literary history

• 1613The Globe burned to the ground when a stage cannon fired during Henry VIII and caught the thatch. Nobody died; one man's flaming breeches were reportedly put out with a bottle of ale.

Writers born on June 29

• Giacomo Leopardi (1798),
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)

The Daily Canon for June 29

Canti by Giacomo Leopardi (1835).