Reuters historical calendar - June 29

London, June 28 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 29 since 1900: 1916 - The Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death for conspiracy with Germany.

1941 - Polish concert pianist and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski died. He campaigned abroad on behalf of Poland and was briefly prime minister in 1919.

1967 - The American film actress Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer) was decapitated in a car crash near New Orleans.

1972 - The US Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was contrary to the constitution.

1974 - Isabel Peron was sworn in as president of Argentina, taking over from her husband Juan Peron who had become ill.

1980 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir was elected Iceland's president, becoming Europe's first democratically elected female head of state.

1982 - Pierre Alexandre Balmain, who headed one of the two great Paris fashion houses, died.

1991 - The former East bloc's trade and economic arm, COMECON, was dissolved.

1992 - Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf was assassinated as he opened a cultural centre in the eastern Algerian town of Annaba.

1992 - The United Nations flag was raised over Sarajevo airport after Serbian forces ended their two-month siege.

1995 - A department store in Seoul collapsed, killing 502 people, in South Korea's worst peacetime disaster.

1995 - Lana Turner, the blonde bombshell who was discovered at a Hollywood soda fountain and rose to become one of America's most glamorous movie stars, died aged 75.

1999 - The Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan was sentenced by a Turkish court to hang for treason.

2000 - A first printing of the US Declaration of Independence fetched .14 million in a Sotheby's online auction, breaking the record for any sale on the Internet.

2001 - Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic resigned, triggering the fall of the federal government over the transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to the war crimes court in The Hague.

2002 - Leka I, son of Albania's King Zog who ruled from 1928 to 1939, came home for good after 63 years in exile.

2002 - The American singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, who starred opposite Bing Crosby in the 1954 classic movie ''White Christmas'', died.'' 2003 - The American movie star Katharine Hepburn, winner of four ''Best Actress'' Oscars, died aged 96.

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