ALMANAC On this day, June 29

1613 London’s original Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed, was destroyed by a fire sparked by a cannon shot during a performance of “Henry VIII.”

1909 In the final game played in Exposition Park, the Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs, 8-1.

1927 The first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger arrived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii aboard the Bird of Paradise, an AtlanticFokker C-2, after flying 2,400 miles from Oakland, Calif., in 25 hours, 50 minutes. 1964 Police Detective Ralph Barnett was sworn in as city’s first Black police inspector.

1978 Actor Bob Crane of “Hogan’s Heroes” fame was found bludgeoned to death in an apartment in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was appearing in a play; he was 49.

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Rick Nowlin

Today’s birthdays: Songwriter L. Russell Brown, 82. Singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys, 79. Actor Gary Busey, 78. Comedian Richard Lewis, 75. Actor-turned-politicianturned-radio personality Fred Grandy, 74.

Rock musician Ian Paice (Deep Purple), 74. Singer Don Dokken (Dokken), 69. Rock singer Colin Hay (Men At Work), 69. Actor Kimberlin Brown (TV: “The Bold and the Beautiful”), 61. Actor Sharon Lawrence, 61. Rock musician Sam Farrar, 44. Singer Nicole Scherzinger, 44. NBA forward Kawhi Leonard, 31. Actor Camila Mendes (TV: “Riverdale”), 28.

Thought for today: “He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.”

— James Russell Lowell, American essayist (1819-1891)