This Day in History for 29th May

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 168

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.
757 - St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1138 - Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II
1167 - Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 - Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire
1414 - Council of Constance deposes Pope John XXIII
1453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1453 - French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
1576 - Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea
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.
1630 - Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1652 - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp
1660 - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
1692 - Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
1692 - Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
1721 - South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1727 - Peter II (11) becomes Tsar of Russia
1733 - The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1753 - Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres
1765 - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "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.
1787 - "Virginia Plan" proposed
1790 - Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
1848 - Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1848 - Wisconsin becomes 30th state
1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1861 - Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1864 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1868 - The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1874 - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1884 - 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
1889 - August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen
1897 - 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23.25
1900 - 25th Preakness: H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4
1900 - Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1902 - Dutch State Mine law forms
1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1905 - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
1909 - Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
1910 - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1911 - 1st running of Indianapolis 500
1912 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 - Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
1916 - NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted
1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 - Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster
1919 - Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1922 - Ecuador becomes independent
1922 - US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws
1924 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1928 - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
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.
1935 - Hague local museum opens
1940 - Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1940 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague Neth
1940 - In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
1942 - Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date
1943 - Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
1943 - Meat & cheese rationed in US
1944 - British troops occupy Aprilia Italy
1945 - US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
1946 - KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1949 - Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1951 - 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1952 - 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
Mount Everest Conquerer Edmund Hillary 1953 - Edmund Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
1954 - Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
1954 - First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1955 - Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
1956 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
1956 - WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
1957 - Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
1957 - NYC Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants & Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast
1958 - Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
1959 - Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1960 - Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1962 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
1965 - Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 1967 - Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19
1967 - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1968 - Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London
1968 - Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1968 - UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
1969 - Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 - General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 - Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61
1972 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1973 - Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif
1973 - Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1974 - Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
1976 - "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29
1976 - Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 237

1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 - Anne ML of Orleans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)
1630 - Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
1673 - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council
1675 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 - Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist
1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1730 - William Jackson, composer
1731 - Orazio Mei, composer
1736 - Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
1741 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1791 - Pietro Romani, composer
1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1810 - Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1810 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer
1810 - Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1823 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1824 - Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
1825 - David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
1827 - Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1837 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
1837 - Luca Fumagalli, composer
1839 - Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test)
1840 - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)
1841 - Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, (d. 1971)
1843 - Emile Pessard, composer
1846 - Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education
1851 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
1852 - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1864 - A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer
1874 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold)
1880 - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
1881 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 - William Beatton Moonie, composer
1885 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
1890 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1892 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal)
1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
1896 - George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
1897 - Ignace Lilien, composer
1903 - Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
1904 - Robert Knox, bacteriologist
1905 - Fela Sowande, composer
1905 - Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor/director (That Joyous Eve)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, Holt England, actor (Return of Jedi, Chimera)
1906 - Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1906 - Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1906 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1907 - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic
1907 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1909 - Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
1910 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1911 - James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
1911 - Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
1912 - John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque)
1912 - Lucie Aubrac [Bernard], Paris, history teacher and French resistance member, (d. 2007)
1913 - Douglas Black, physician
1913 - Iris Adrian, LA California, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 - David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
1915 - Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
1915 - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1916 - Carl M Story, fiddler
US President John F. Kennedy (1917) 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
1918 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 - Isabel Dean, Engl, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom)
1920 - Robin Haydon, British diplomat
1921 - Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
1921 - George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
1921 - James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
1922 - John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
1923 - Earl of Morley, Lord Lt (Devon)
1923 - Richard Worsley, quarter master General
1925 - Kenneth Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1926 - Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
1926 - Iannis Xenakis, composer/architect/engineer
1927 - Carl Toms, stage designer (1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two)
1927 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer
1927 - Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
1928 - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
1929 - Anthony Grant, British MP
1929 - Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
1929 - Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1930 - Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
1930 - Eddy Choong, Penang, Malaysia, Chinese badminton player , (d. 2013)
1931 - Carl Toms, stage designer
1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1935 - Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
1935 - Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP)
1935 - Martin Garrod, Commandant General (Royal Marines)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1506 - Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont
1884 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London
2004 - "Party of Five" actor Scott Wolf (35) weds "Real World" cast member Kelley Limp at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 - "America's Next Top Model" first winner Adrianne Curry (23) weds "The Brady Bunch" actor Christopher Knight (48) in Joliet, Illinois
2006 - Award-winning English actress Tamzin Outhwaite (35) weds former "EastEnders" actor Tom Ellis (26) at All Saints Church in Lullington, Somerset
2010 - "Survivor: Fiji" winner Earl Cole (39) weds pharmacist Shelley Lee at the St. Regis Princeville Resort on Kauai

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2010 - Five-time Grammy Award singer Shania Twain (42) divorces music producer Robert John Lange (59) after 14 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 120

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 Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
1500 - Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1544 - Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1593 - John Penry, English congressionalist, executed
1629 - Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74
1660 - Gyorgy Rákóczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle
1660 - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44
1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1680 - Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73
1691 - Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61
1750 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70
1788 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 - Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
1815 - Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64
1816 - Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
1829 - Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84
1833 - William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1862 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1869 - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73
1877 - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1883 - Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73
1883 - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies
1885 - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63
1892 - Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74
1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1899 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1905 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
English Dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert (1911) 1911 - William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1922 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
1924 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
1933 - Frank Sugg, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for England 1888), dies
1934 - Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65
1935 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 - John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60
1943 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 - May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82
1951 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66
1951 - Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
1951 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91
1951 - Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85
1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1955 - Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
1956 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65
1956 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73
1957 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
1958 - Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76
1961 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
1970 - John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
1971 - Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83
1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 - Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 - Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1979 - Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86
1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43
1983 - Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1985 - 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
1985 - Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
1987 - Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40
1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1991 - Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
1992 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
1992 - Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies
1992 - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43
1992 - Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44
1993 - Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75
1993 - Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
1994 - Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94
1994 - Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81
1994 - Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92
1994 - Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78
1994 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61
1995 - Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), dies at 97
1996 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77
1996 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45
1996 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
1997 - George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life), dies at 77
1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
1997 - John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84