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May 29
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May 29''' is the
149 (number) 149th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (150th in
leap years). There are 216 days remaining.
Events
*
363 -
Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate Julian defeats the
Sassanid Empire Sassanid army in the
Battle of Ctesiphon (363) Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is impossibilitated to conquer it.
*
757 -
Pope Paul I Paul I succeeds
Pope Stephen III Stephen III as
pope
*
1167 -
Battle of Legnano, in which
The Lombard League defeats
Emperor Frederick I.
*
1414 -
Council of Constance.
*
1453 -
Ottoman Empire Ottoman armies under Sultan
Mehmed II Fatih capture
Constantinople after a
siege, ending the
Byzantine Empire.
*
1660 -
English Restoration:
Charles II of England Charles II is restored to the throne of
England.
*
1677 -
Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the
Virginia colonists and the local
Native American (U.S.) Indians.
*
1727 -
Peter II of Russia Peter II becomes
Tsar of
Russia.
*
1733 - Right of
Canada Canadians to keep
First Nations Indian slavery slaves upheld at
Quebec City.
*
1790 -
Rhode Island becomes the last of the original
United States 13 colonies colonies to ratify the
United States Constitution Constitution and is admitted as the 13th
U.S. state.
*
1848 -
Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th
U.S. state.
*
1864 - Emperor
Maximilian of Mexico arrives in
Mexico for the first time.
*
1867 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called
Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; on
June 8 Emperor
Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary
*
1886 - Chemist
John Pemberton places his first
Advertising advertisement for
Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the ''
Atlanta Journal''.
* 1886 -
Putney Bridge opened in west
London.
*
1913 -
Igor Stravinsky's
ballet score
The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
*
1914 -
Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
*
1919 - Observation of shifted star positions during a
solar eclipse confirm
Albert Einstein's
theory of relativity (see
Arthur Eddington).
*
1935 - Construction of
Hoover Dam is completed.
*
1950 - ''
St. Roch'', first ship to
circumnavigation circumnavigate North America, arrives in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
*
1953 - Sir
Edmund Hillary and
Sherpa (people) Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.
*
1968 -
Manchester United wins the
European Cup, the first
England English Club to do so.
*
1977 -
Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the
Indianapolis 500.
*
1985 -
Heysel Stadium disaster: In
Brussels,
Belgium, 39
Football (soccer) football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a
European Cup match.
* 1985 -
amputation Amputee Steve Fonyo completes
Canada cross-Canada marathon at
Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
*
1994 -
Herbert Shughart refuses to shake hands with U.S. President
Bill Clinton following a presentation of posthumous
Medal of Honor Medals of Honor to the widows of two soldiers for valor in
Somalia.
*
2004 - The
World War II Memorial is dedicated in
Washington, D.C.
* 2004 - The
29 May 2004 Al-Khobar massacres Al-Khobar massacres in
Saudi Arabia kill 22.
*
2005 -
France, one of the founders of a united
Europe, resoundingly rejects the
European Constitution, throwing the idea of a
European Union into question and leaving the continent in a state of anxiety and uncertainty (see
French referendum on the European Constitution).
* 2005 -
Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to lead a lap in the
Indianapolis 500.
Births
*
1265 -
Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet (d.
1321)
*
1594 -
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d.
1632)
*
1627 -
Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (d.
1693)
*
1630 - King
Charles II of England (d.
1685)
*
1660 -
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of
Queen Anne of England (d.
1744)
*
1675 -
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d.
1715)
*
1716 -
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d.
1800)
*
1722 -
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d.
1773)
*
1736 -
Patrick Henry, American patriot (d.
1799)
*
1860 -
Isaac Albeniz Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d.
1909)
*
1863 -
Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d.
1921)
*
1874 -
G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d.
1936)
*
1880 -
Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d.
1936)
*
1892 -
Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d.
1938)
*
1893 -
Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d.
1944)
*
1894 -
Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d.
1989)
*1894 -
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d.
1969)
*
1897 -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d.
1957)
*
1903 -
Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d.
2003)
*
1906 -
T.H. White, British author (d.
1964)
*
1913 -
Tony Zale, American boxer (d.
1997)
*
1914 -
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (d.
1986)
*
1915 -
Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d.
1990)
*
1917 -
John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th
President of the United States (d.
1963)
*
1920 -
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2000)
*
1922 -
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d.
2001)
*
1933 -
Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
*1933 -
Edward Whittemore, American writer
*
1938 -
Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
*
1939 -
Al Unser, American race car driver
*
1940 -
Farooq Leghari,
President of Pakistan
*
1942 -
Kevin Conway, American actor
*
1946 -
Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d.
2000)
*
1947 -
Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
*
1948 -
Anthony Geary, American actor
*
1953 -
Danny Elfman, American composer and musician (
Oingo Boingo)
*
1955 -
John Hinckley Jr., American attempted assassin
*
1956 -
LaToya Jackson, American musician
*
1957 -
Jeb Hensarling, American politician
*
1958 -
Annette Bening, American actress
*
1959 -
Rupert Everett, English actor
*1959 -
Adrian Paul, English actor
*
1961 -
Melissa Etheridge, American musician
*
1962 -
Eric Davis, baseball player
*1962 -
John D. LeMay, American actor
*
1963 -
Lisa Whelchel, American actress
*
1967 -
Noel Gallagher, English musician (
Oasis (band) Oasis)
*
1969 -
Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (
Blues Traveler)
*
1975 -
Melanie Brown, English musician and actress
*
1979 -
Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
*1979 -
Arne Friedrich, German footballer
*
1984 -
Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
Deaths
*
1259 - King
Christopher I of Denmark (b.
1219)
*
1379 - King
Henry II of Castile (b.
1334)
*
1405 -
Philippe de Mézières, advisor to
Charles V of France
*
1425 -
Hongxi Emperor of China (b.
1378)
*
1453 -
Constantine XI of the Byzantine Empire Constantine XI Palaeologus, last
Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle) (b.
1404)
*
1500 -
Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
*
1546 -
David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
*
1593 -
John Penry, Welsh protestant leader (b.
1559)
*
1660 -
Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b.
1615)
*
1691 -
Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b.
1629)
*
1790 -
Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b.
1718)
*
1796 -
Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b.
1720)
*
1814 -
Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b.
1763)
*
1847 -
Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b.
1766)
*
1866 -
Winfield Scott, American general and presidential candidate (b.
1786)
*
1882 -
Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b.
1833)
*
1892 -
Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'à Faith (b.
1817)
*
1896 -
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b.
1814)
*
1903 -
Alexander Obrenovich,
King of Serbia (b.
1876)
*
1910 -
Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b.
1837)
*
1911 -
W. S. Gilbert William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b.
1836)
*
1935 -
Josef Suk (composer) Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b.
1874)
*
1942 -
John Barrymore, American actor (b.
1882)
*
1948 - Dame
May Whitty, English actress (b.
1865)
*
1951 -
Fanny Brice, American singer, comedian, and actress (b.
1891)
*
1953 -
Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b.
1891)
*
1958 -
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1881)
*
1972 -
Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b.
1878)
*
1979 -
Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b.
1892)
*
1982 -
Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b.
1938)
*
1989 -
John Cipollina, American musician (
Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.
1943)
*
1993 -
Billy Conn, American boxer (b.
1917)
*
1994 -
Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b.
1912)
*
1997 -
Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b.
1966)
*
1998 -
Barry Goldwater Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b.
1909)
*
2004 -
Archibald Cox Archibald Cox, Jr., American Watergate special prosecutor (b.
1912)
*2004 -
Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b.
1925)
*
2005 -
George Rochberg, American composer (b.
1918)
Holidays and observances
*
Bahá'à Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
*
United Kingdom:
Oak Apple Day
*
Nigeria:
Democracy Day Nigeria returns to democratical form of governance after 16 years of military dictatorship.
*
Venezuela:
Tree Day
*
Argentina:
Army Day
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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Today in History: May 29
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May 28 -
May 30 -
April 29 -
June 29 -
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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