May 29rd Events |
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May 29th, 2005 (May 29 2005) | Event | France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution. | |
May 29th, 2004 (May 29 2004) | Event | The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. | |
May 29th, 2004 (May 29 2004) | Event | The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22. | |
May 29th, 2001 (May 29 2001) | Event | U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments. | |
May 29th, 2001 (May 29 2001) | Event | International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated. | |
May 29th, 1999 (May 29 1999) | Event | Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. | |
May 29th, 1999 (May 29 1999) | Event | Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station. | |
May 29th, 1990 (May 29 1990) | Event | Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
May 29th, 1988 (May 29 1988) | Event | U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
May 29th, 1985 (May 29 1985) | Event | Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans. | |
May 29th, 1985 (May 29 1985) | Event | Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months. | |
May 29th, 1982 (May 29 1982) | Event | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff ever to visit Canterbury Cathedral. | |
May 29th, 1973 (May 29 1973) | Event | Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California. | |
May 29th, 1972 (May 29 1972) | Event | 26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen open fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. | |
May 29th, 1968 (May 29 1968) | Event | Manchester United win the European Cup, the first English Club to do so. | |
May 29th, 1964 (May 29 1964) | Event | The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. | |
May 29th, 1954 (May 29 1954) | Event | First of the annual Bilderberg conferences. | |
May 29th, 1953 (May 29 1953) | Event | Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay s (adopted) 39th birthday. | Edmund Hillary Quotes |
May 29th, 1950 (May 29 1950) | Event | St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia . | |
May 29th, 1948 (May 29 1948) | Event | Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation | |
May 29th, 1942 (May 29 1942) | Event | Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin s "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. | John Scott Quotes |
May 29th, 1932 (May 29 1932) | Event | World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. | |
May 29th, 1924 (May 29 1924) | Event | AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks. | |
May 29th, 1919 (May 29 1919) | Event | 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, Ceara, Brazil. | |
May 29th, 1919 (May 29 1919) | Event | The Republic of Prekmurje founded | |
May 29th, 1914 (May 29 1914) | Event | Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost. | |
May 29th, 1913 (May 29 1913) | Event | Igor Stravinsky s ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot. | Igor Stravinsky Quotes |
May 29th, 1903 (May 29 1903) | Event | May coup d etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization. | |
May 29th, 1886 (May 29 1886) | Event | Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal. | |
May 29th, 1868 (May 29 1868) | Event | The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade. | |
May 29th, 1867 (May 29 1867) | Event | The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary. | |
May 29th, 1864 (May 29 1864) | Event | Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time. | |
May 29th, 1848 (May 29 1848) | Event | Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state. | |
May 29th, 1790 (May 29 1790) | Event | Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. | |
May 29th, 1780 (May 29 1780) | Event | Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed. | Abraham Quotes |
May 29th, 1765 (May 29 1765) | Event | Patrick Henry in a speech (on his birthday, see below) denouncing the Stamp Act is believed to have said, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" | Patrick Henry Quotes |
May 29th, 1733 (May 29 1733) | Event | The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City. | |
May 29th, 1727 (May 29 1727) | Event | Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia. | |
May 29th, 1677 (May 29 1677) | Event | Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians. | |
May 29th, 1660 (May 29 1660) | Event | English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthdaysee below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain. | |
May 29th, 1592 (May 29 1592) | Event | At the Battle of Sacheon, the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin, repels a Japanese army that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1. | |
May 29th, 1453 (May 29 1453) | Event | Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. | |
May 29th, 1414 (May 29 1414) | Event | Council of Constance. | |
May 29th, 1176 (May 29 1176) | Event | Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I. | |
May 29th, 1167 (May 29 1167) | Event | Battle of Monte PorzioA Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel | Alexander Pope Quotes |
May 29th, 0363 (May 29 0363) | Event | 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. | Julian Quotes |