This day in history

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.

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

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.

2017 - Australian police charge Vatican's treasurer Cardinal George Pell with multiple sex offences.