May 29 in History

See what makes May 29 special around the globe, from quotes to birthday and major events.

May 29, 0363 "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."

May 29, 0757 Paul I succeeds Stephen II as pope.

May 29, 1167 Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel

May 29, 1167 Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano

May 29, 1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

May 29, 1176 "Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I."

May 29, 1414 Council of Constance.

May 29, 1415 Council of Konstanz

May 29, 1453 "Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire."

May 29, 1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire

May 29, 1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated

May 29, 1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont

May 29, 1576 Spanish army under Mondrag¢n conquerors Zierik sea

May 29, 1630 "Governor John Winthrop begins ""History of New England"""

May 29, 1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth

May 29, 1660 English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday - see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.

May 29, 1677 Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.

May 29, 1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France

May 29, 1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day first celebrated

May 29, 1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony

May 29, 1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia

May 29, 1727 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.

May 29, 1733 Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.

May 29, 1753 "Joseph Haydns ""Krumme Teufel"" premieres"

May 29, 1765 "Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of ""Treason!"" with, ""If this be treason, make the most of it!"""

May 29, 1765 "Patrick Henry in a speech (on his birthday, see below) denouncing the Stamp Act is said to have said, ""If this be treason, make the most of it!"""

May 29, 1780 Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.

May 29, 1787 """Virginia Plan"" proposed"

May 29, 1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution

May 29, 1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

May 29, 1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state

May 29, 1848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state to join the US

May 29, 1848 Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

May 29, 1849 "Lincoln says ""You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"""

May 29, 1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

May 29, 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

May 29, 1864 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.

May 29, 1864 M‚xican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz

May 29, 1867 "Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich (""the Compromise"") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph was crowned King of Hungary."

May 29, 1868 "The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade."

May 29, 1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

May 29, 1884 The first steam cable trams start in highgate

May 29, 1886 Putney Bridge opens in west London.

May 29, 1900 "Trademark ""Escalator"" registered by Otis Elevator Co"

May 29, 1902 Dutch State Mine law forms

May 29, 1903 "May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization."

May 29, 1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

May 29, 1909 "Frank ""Home Run"" Baker's first career homerun"

May 29, 1910 "Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers"

May 29, 1911 "The first Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 mph (120 kph)"

May 29, 1912 "15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the ""Turkey Trot"" during their lunch break"

May 29, 1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.

May 29, 1914 "Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost."

May 29, 1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die

May 29, 1915 "Attack on Quinn's Post, Gallipoli"

May 29, 1916 Official flag of President of US adopted

May 29, 1916 The US Presidential Flag is adopted

May 29, 1916 "US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924"

May 29, 1917 John F. Kennedy was born on may 29 1917

May 29, 1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

May 29, 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, Cear, Brazil."

May 29, 1922 Ecuador becomes independent

May 29, 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

May 29, 1932 "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 29, 1935 Hague local museum opens

May 29, 1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands

May 29, 1940 "HMS WAKEFUL, sunk off Nieuport, Belgium by 1 torpedo from German E-boat S-30."

May 29, 1940 "In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France"

May 29, 1942 Actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60

May 29, 1942 "Bing Crosby records ""White Christmas"" greatest selling record to date"

May 29, 1942 "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."

May 29, 1942 HMAS Perth damaged during Crete evacuation

May 29, 1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)

May 29, 1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US

May 29, 1945 US first Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

May 29, 1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

May 29, 1949 "Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC"

May 29, 1950 "St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia ."

May 29, 1951 The first North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

May 29, 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends

May 29, 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."

May 29, 1953 The first two individuals to reach the top of Everest were Tensing Norkay of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand reached the summit on 1953

May 29, 1954 First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.

May 29, 1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married

May 29, 1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

May 29, 1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators

May 29, 1957 Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

May 29, 1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels

May 29, 1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

May 29, 1960 "Everly Brothers ""Cathy's Clown"" hits #1"

May 29, 1962 "Buck O'Neil becomes the first black coach in major league baseball, accepting a job with the Chicago Cubs"

May 29, 1964 The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel which leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

May 29, 1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19

May 29, 1967 "Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II"

May 29, 1968 Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament beating Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley after an added 30 minutes 1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law

May 29, 1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia

May 29, 1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes first crossing of Arctic Sea ice

May 29, 1971 """Court Room"" by Clarence Carter hits #61"

May 29, 1972 "26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel."

May 29, 1973 "Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records"

May 29, 1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles

May 29, 1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster

May 29, 1976 """One Piece At A Time"" by Johnny Cash hits #29"

May 29, 1977 Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500

May 29, 1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio

May 29, 1977 Sue Press is first woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one

May 29, 1978 "A 1 oz letter costs 15-cents to mail today, as the US post office raises the old rate by two cents"

May 29, 1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's first black PM

May 29, 1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

May 29, 1980 "J Turners ""Juliet & Her Nurse"" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC"

May 29, 1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

May 29, 1982 """I Know What Boys Like"" by The Waitresses hits #62"

May 29, 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madness - House Of Fun

May 29, 1985 "Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months."

May 29, 1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years

May 29, 1985 "Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured by Liverpool fans at a European Cup match."

May 29, 1985 Thirty-five spectators die when rioting erupts at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels

May 29, 1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia

May 29, 1987 """Twilight Zone"" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow"

May 29, 1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

May 29, 1988 "Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season"

May 29, 1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

May 29, 1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty

May 29, 1990 "An earthquake hits Peru, killing 56"

May 29, 1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president by the Russian parliament

May 29, 1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I

May 29, 1993 Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany

May 29, 1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)

May 29, 1994 Great comet-iceball seen above North Sea

May 29, 1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

May 29, 1996 "Space Shuttle STS 77 (Endeavour 11), lands"

May 29, 1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym

May 29, 1997 "Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7"

May 29, 1997 "Scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil"

May 29, 1998 Former Arizona senator Barry Goldwater dies at age 89

May 29, 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."

May 29, 2004 The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.

May 29, 2004 "The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C."

May 29, 2005 "France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution."

May 29, 2010 "Actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper died - age 74 - USA"

May 29, 2010 Robbers stole $5.5 million from a southern Iraqi state bank after giving guards tea laced with a sleeping drug.

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