JUNE 29
1974:Isabel Perón is sworn in as interim president of Argentina, accepting power from her mortally ill husband, Juan Perón, who will die two days later. Isabel Perón, formerly the Argentine vice president, becomes the first female head of government in the Western Hemisphere.
1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act, allocating $25 billion to modernize the nation's highways and create gigantic coast-to-coast interstates. The new interstates will fulfill many of the technological predictions of the Futurama exhibit made by General Motors for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
1974: Soviet-born ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Toronto.
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