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
- 1414 - Council of Constance
- 1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the thrown of England
- 1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
- 1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia
- 1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City
- 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.
- 1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state
- 1864 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time
- 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
- 1886 - Putney Bridge opened in west London
- 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
- 1914 - Ocean liner 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).
- 1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
- 1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match.
- 1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia after 14 months.
Births
- 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, general (+ 1632)
- 1630 - King Charles II of England (+ 1685)
- 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (+ 1799)
- 1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (+ 1909)
- 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, novelist (+ 1936)
- 1880 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher, Decline of the West (+ 1936)
- 1893 - Max Brand, author, war correspondent (+ 1944)
- 1894 - Beatrice Lillie, actress (+ 1989)
- 1894 - Josef von Sternberg, writer, director (+ 1969)
- 1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor (+ 2003)
- 1906 - T.H. White, author (+ 1964)
- 1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 above) (+ 1986)
- 1914 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (+ 1988)
- 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (+ 1963)
- 1922 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (+ 2001)
- 1933 - John Mayall, musician
- 1944 - Helmut Berger, actor
- 1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (+2000)
- 1948 - Anthony Geary, actor
- 1953 - Danny Elfman, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo")
- 1958 - Annette Bening, actress
- 1959 - Rupert Everett, actor
- 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, musician
Deaths
- 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor.
- 1814 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France
- 1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith)
- 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia
- 1910 - Mily Balakirev, composer
- 1911 - William S. Gilbert, dramatist
- 1942 - John Barrymore, actor
- 1948 - Dame May Whitty, actress
- 1951 - Fanny Brice, singer, comedienne, actress
- 1979 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder
- 1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest)
- 1995 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile in Chile
- 1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning)
- 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator
Holidays and Observances
- Bahá'í Faith:Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
See Also:
May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
