May 29
May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (150th in
leap years). There are 216 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1167 - Battle of Legano, in which The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.\n*1414 - Council of Constance.\n*1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. \n*1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England.\n*1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.\n*1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.\n*1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.\n*1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. \n*1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.\n*1864 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.\n*1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).\n*1886 - Putney Bridge opened in west London.\n*1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.\n*1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris. \n*1914 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost. \n*1919 - Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirm Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (see Arthur Eddington). \n*1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. \n*1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. \n*1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. \n*1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match. \n*1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia after 14 months.
Births
\n*1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, general (d. 1632)\n*1630 - King Charles II of England (d. 1685)\n*1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)\n*1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)\n*1874 - G. K. Chesterton, novelist (d. 1936)\n*1880 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher, Decline of the West (d. 1936)\n*1893 - Max Brand, author, war correspondent (d. 1944)\n*1894 - Beatrice Lillie, actress (d. 1989)\n*1894 - Josef von Sternberg, writer, director (d. 1969)\n*1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor (d. 2003)\n*1906 - T.H. White, author (d. 1964)\n*1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 above) (d. 1986)\n*1914 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (d. 1988)\n*1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)\n*1922 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (d. 2001)\n*1933 - John Mayall, musician\n*1933 - Edward Whittemore, writer\n*1938 - Fay Vincent, former commissioner of baseball\n*1939 - Al Unser, race car driver\n*1940 - Farooq Leghari, former President of Pakistan\n*1942 - Kevin Conway, actor\n*1944 - Helmut Berger, actor\n*1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)\n*1948 - Anthony Geary, actor\n*1953 - Danny Elfman, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo")\n*1956 - LaToya Jackson, musician\n*1958 - Annette Bening, actress\n*1959 - Rupert Everett, actor\n*1961 - Melissa Etheridge, musician
Deaths
\n*1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor (b. 1409)\n*1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)\n*1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith) (b. 1817)\n*1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, king of Serbia (b. 1876)\n*1910 - Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837)\n*1911 - William S. Gilbert, dramatist (b. 1836)\n*1942 - John Barrymore, actor (b. 1882)\n*1948 - Dame May Whitty, actress (b. 1865)\n*1951 - Fanny Brice, singer, comedienne, actress (b. 1891)\n*1953 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (b. 1891)\n*1979 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (b. 1892)\n*1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)\n*1994 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile in Chile (b. 1912)\n*1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966)\n*1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator (b. 1909)\n*2004 - Sam Dash, chief counsel to Senate Watergate Committee\n*2004 - Archibald Cox, Jr, Watergate special prosecutor, (b. 1912)
Holidays and Observances
\n*Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah\n*England: Oak Apple Day\n----
May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 - listing of all days
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