May 29 May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). There are 216 days remaining. Events 1000-1899 1167 - Battle of Legano, 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. 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne 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. 1900-1999 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. 1999 - In Jerusalem, Israel, Charlotte Nilsson wins the forty-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Take Me To Your Heaven". Births 1500-1899 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, general (d. 1632) 1630 - King Charles II of England (d. 1685) 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799) 1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909) 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, novelist (d. 1936) 1880 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher, Decline of the West (d. 1936) 1893 - Max Brand, author, war correspondent (d. 1944) 1894 - Beatrice Lillie, actress (d. 1989) 1894 - Josef von Sternberg, writer, director (d. 1969) 1900-1999 1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor (d. 2003) 1906 - T.H. White, author (d. 1964) 1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 above) (d. 1986) 1914 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (d. 1988) 1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990) 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963) 1922 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (d. 2001) 1933 - John Mayall, musician 1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor 1933 - Edward Whittemore, writer 1938 - Fay Vincent, former commissioner of baseball 1939 - Al Unser, race car driver 1940 - Farooq Leghari, former President of Pakistan 1942 - Kevin Conway, actor 1944 - Helmut Berger, actor 1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000) 1948 - Anthony Geary, actor 1953 - Danny Elfman, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo") 1956 - LaToya Jackson, musician 1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician 1958 - Annette Bening, actress 1959 - Rupert Everett, actor 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, musician 1984 - Carmelo Anthony, NBA basketball player Deaths 1400-1899 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor (b. 1409) 1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763) 1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith) (b. 1817) 1900-1999 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, king of Serbia (b. 1876) 1910 - Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837) 1911 - William S. Gilbert, dramatist (b. 1836) 1935 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874) 1942 - John Barrymore, actor (b. 1882) 1948 - Dame May Whitty, actress (b. 1865) 1951 - Fanny Brice, singer, comedienne, actress (b. 1891) 1953 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (b. 1891) 1979 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (b. 1892) 1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938) 1994 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile in Chile (b. 1912) 1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966) 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator (b. 1909) 2000-2099 2004 - Sam Dash, chief counsel to Senate Watergate Committee 2004 - Archibald Cox, Jr., Watergate special prosecutor, (b. 1912) Holidays and observances Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah England: Oak Apple Day May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 - listing of all days FAVORITE ARTICLES: History of the World    History of the United States    History of Europe    Ancient History    History    Military History    World War I    Bombing of Dresden    California    US Constitution    Frank Sinatra    Boston    Marbury v. Madison This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. You must provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html To view or edit this article at Wikipedia go to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29