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May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years ). There are 216 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 Notes 6 External links
Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon , under the walls of the Sassanid capital , but is unable to take the city.
757 - Paul I succeeds Stephen II as pope .
1167 - Battle of Legnano , in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I .
1414 - Council of Constance .
1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege , ending the Byzantine Empire and with it the Roman Empire .
1660 - English Restoration : Charles II (on his birthday - see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
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 .
1765 - Patrick Henry in a speech denouncing the Stamp Act is said to have said, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford 's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.
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.
1867 - Austro -Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary .
1868 - The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III , Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola , the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal 1886 - Putney Bridge opens in west London .
1903 - May coup d'etat : Alexander Obrenovich , King of Serbia , and Queen Draga, are 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 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington 's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará , Brazil .
1924 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1932 - WW I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945 .
1935 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
1950 - St. Roch 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 , on Tenzing Norgay's 39th birthday.
1968 - Manchester United wins the European Cup , the first English Club to do so.
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.
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria , the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2005 - France , one of the founders of a united Europe , resoundingly rejects the European Constitution .
Births 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim , Bavarian general (d. 1632 )
1627 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier , French writer (d. 1693 )
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685 )
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (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 )
1823 - John H. Balsley , American carpenter (d. 1895 )
1860 - 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 )
1907 - Hartland Molson , Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002 )
1911 - Armida - Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)
1913 - Tony Zale , American boxer (d. 1997 )
1914 - Tenzing Norgay , Nepalese sherpa (d. 1986 )
1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. , American actor (d. 2003 )
1915 - Karl Münchinger , German conductor (d. 1990 )
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy , 35th President of the United States (d. 1963 )
1920 - John Harsanyi , Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
1922 - Iannis Xenakis , Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001 )
1927 - Jean Coutu , Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group )
1932 - Richie Guerin , former basketball player
1933 - Helmuth Rilling , German conductor
1933 - Edward Whittemore , American writer (d. 1995 )
1937 - Charles W. Pickering , American judge
1938 - Fay Vincent , baseball commissioner
1939 - Al Unser , American race car driver
1940 - Farooq Leghari , President of Pakistan
1942 - Pierre Bourque , Former mayor of Montreal
1942 - Kevin Conway , American actor
1945 - Gary Brooker , musician (Procol Harum )
1946 - Fernando Buesa , Basque politician (d. 2000 )
1947 - Gene Robinson , American ecclesiastic
1948 - Anthony Geary , American actor
1949 - Brian Kidd , English footballer
1950 - Rebbie Jackson , American musician
1951 - Peter Chernin , President of News Corporation
1953 - Danny Elfman , American musician (Oingo Boingo )
1955 - John Hinckley, Jr. , American attempted assassin
1955 - Sut Jhally , Kenyan-born American educator
1956 - LaToya Jackson , American musician
1957 - Jeb Hensarling , American politician
1958 - Annette Bening , American actress
1958 - Willem Holleeder , Dutch criminal
1959 - Rupert Everett , English actor
1959 - Adrian Paul , English actor
1961 - Melissa Etheridge , American musician
1961 - Gregory Williams , American educator and designer
1962 - Eric Davis , American baseball player
1962 - John D. LeMay , American actor
1963 - Blaze Bayley , British singer (ex-Iron Maiden )
1963 - Lisa Whelchel , American actress
1967 - Noel Gallagher , English musician (Oasis )
1967 - Mike Keane , Canadian hockey player
1969 - Chan Kinchla , Canadian musician (Blues Traveler )
1971 - Craig McCracken , American animator
1972 - Közi , Japanese visual kei artist
1973 - Alpay Özalan , Turkish footballer
1975 - Melanie Brown , English musician and actress
1976 - David Buckner , American musician (Papa Roach )
1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr. , American baseball player
1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo , Angolan footballer
1978 - Lorenzo Odone , Adrenoleukodystrophy victim
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean , French tennis player
1979 - Brian Kendrick , American professional wrestler
1979 - Arne Friedrich , German footballer
1979 - Casey Sheehan , American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004 )
1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros , Brazilian model
1983 - Rama Claproth , Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 - Carmelo Anthony , American basketball player
1986 - Dylan Postl , American professional wrestler
Deaths 1153 - King David I of Scotland
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 Palaeologus , last Byzantine Emperor (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 )
1829 – Humphry Davy , English chemist (b. 1778 )
1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy , French marshal (b. 1766 )
1866 - Winfield Scott , American general (b. 1786 )
1868 - Michael Obrenovich III , Prince of Serbia (b. 1823 )
1882 - Vasily Perov , Russian painter (b. 1833 )
1892 - Bahá'u'lláh , Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817 )
1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée , French geologist (b. 1814 )
1903 - Draga Mašin , Queen of Serbia (b. 1864 )
1903 - Bruce Price , American architect (b. 1845 )
1910 - Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (b. 1837 )
1911 - William S. Gilbert , English dramatist (b. 1836 )
1919 - Robert Bacon , American politician (b. 1860 )
1935 - Josef Suk , Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874 )
1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska , Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865 )
1942 - John Barrymore , American actor (b. 1882 )
1948 - Dame May Whitty , English actress (b. 1865 )
1951 - Fanny Brice , American singer/comedian (b. 1891 )
1953 - Man Mountain Dean , American professional wrestler (b. 1891 )
1958 - Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
1970 - John Gunther , American writer (b. 1901 )
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko , Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878 )
1977 - Ba Maw , Burmese politician (b. 1893 )
1979 - Mary Pickford , Canadian -born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892 )
1979 - John H. Wood, Jr. , American federal judge (b. 1916 )
1982 - Romy Schneider , Austrian actress (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 )
1996 - Tamara Toumanova , Ballet star and actress (b. 1919 )
1997 - Jeff Buckley , American musician (drowned) (b. 1966 )
1997 - George Fenneman , American radio and television announcer (b. 1919 )
1998 - Barry M. Goldwater , U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909 )
2003 - David Jefferies , British motorcycle racer (b. 1972 )
2004 - Archibald Cox , Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912 )
2004 - Samuel Dash , American Congressional counsel (b. 1925 )
2005 - George Rochberg , American composer (b. 1918 )
2006 - Steve Mizerak , American pool player (b. 1944 )
Holidays and observances Liturgical feasts Blessed Adhemar
Saint Erwin
Saint Maximinus of Trier
Saint Theodosia
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