On this day: Kurdish guerrilla Abdullah Ocalan was sentenced by a Turkish court to hang in 1999

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 29: 1941 – Polish concert pianist and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski died. He campaigned abroad on behalf of Poland and was briefly prime minister in 1919. 1982 – Pierre Alexandre Balmain, who headed one of the two…

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