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

• 757 – Paul I succeeds Stephen III as pope
• 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 and renaming the city as İstanbul.
• 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.
• 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 advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing 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 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).
• 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".
• 2004 – In Las Vegas at the Paris Casino , a beautiful young woman by the name of Tran "sniffed" on the craps dealer Cameron .

Births

• 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian 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)
• 1863 – Arthur Mold, controversial Lancashire fast bowler and alleged "chucker" (d. 1921)
• 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
• 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1893 – Max Brand, American author, war correspondent (d. 1944)
• 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
• 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American writer, director (d. 1969)
• 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
• 1959 – Adrian Paul, actor
• 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, musician
• 1963 – Lisa Whelchel, actress
• 1967 – Noel Gallagher, musician
• 1975 – Melanie Brown, musician, actress
• 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, NBA 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
• 1453 – Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
• 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
• 1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
• 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general and presidential candidate (b. 1786)
• 1892 – [[Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1903 – Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
• 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
• 1911 – William S. Gilbert, English 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, American singer, comedienne, and 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)
• 1989 – John Cipollina, American musician, Quicksilver Messenger Service (b. August 24, 1943)
• 1994 – Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966)
• 1998 – Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Sam Dash, chief counsel to Senate Watergate Committee (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Archibald Cox, Jr., Watergate special prosecutor, (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances

• Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
• England: Oak Apple Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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