May 29
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.
1167 - Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 - Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1414 - Council of Constance.
1453 - Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1592 - 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.
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 - The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1765 - 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!"
1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are 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 - 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.
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.
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, provoking a riot.
1914 - Ocean liner RMS 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.
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1924 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
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.
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.
1948 - Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
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, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 - First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 - The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1968 - Manchester United win the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.
1969 - General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1972 - 26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen open fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff ever to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1985 - 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.
1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 - 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.
1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
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.
1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2001 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2005 - France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.
Births
1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and Princess(d. 1693)
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
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, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
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)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
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 - 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)
1926 - Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
1927 - Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
1932 - Richie Guerin, former basketball player
1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1937 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
1938 - Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 - Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1942 - Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1942 - Kevin Conway, American actor
1943 - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1945 - Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)
1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1947 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1947 - Anthony Geary, American actor
1948 - Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian 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)
1953 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1955 - Ken Schrader, American race car driver
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
1957 - Ted Levine, American actor
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
1962 - Eric Davis, American baseball player
1962 - John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1963 - Tracey E. Bregman, American actress
1963 - Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Lisa Whelchel, American actress
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
1967 - Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 - Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1973 - Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1973 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1974 - Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1975 - Melanie Brown, English musician and actress
1975 - Anthony Wall, English golfer
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 - Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 - Yusuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1977 - Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978 - Adam Rickitt,British/New Zealand actor
1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1979 - Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 - John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1981 - Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 - Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1986 - Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1987 - Alessandra Toreson, American actress
1989 - Danielle Riley Keough, American actress
1990 - Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 - Kristen Alderson, American actress
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
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)
1946 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
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 laureate (b. 1881)
1970 - John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
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)
1983 - Arvids Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
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)
2002 - Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
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)
2006 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2007 - Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
2007 - Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler of natural causes (b. 1938)
2008 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008 - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances
Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
Nigeria: Democracy Day
United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day.
Blessed Adhemar
Saint Erwin
Saint Maximinus of Trier
Saint Theodosia
Saint Alexander of Alexandria
Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
External links
BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada
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