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May 29
is the 149th day of the year (150th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 216 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1176
-
Battle of Legnano
: The
Lombard League
defeats
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
.
- 1328
?
Philip VI of France
is crowned King.
- 1453
- Fall of
Constantinople
:
Ottoman
armies
under
Sultan
Mehmed II Fatih captures
Constantinople
after a 53-day
siege
, ending the
Byzantine Empire
.
- 1613
- Heavy
flooding
in
Thuringia
kills 2,261 people.
- 1660
?
Charles II
becomes
King
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
as the monarchy is restored.
- 1677
- The
Treaty of Middle Plantation
establishes
peace
between the
Virginia
colonists
and the local
Native Americans
.
- 1717
- The
Spanish
colonists create the Viceroyalty of New Granada, consisting of present-day
Ecuador
,
Colombia
and
Venezuela
, as well as areas that are now part of
Peru
and
Guyana
.
- 1727
?
Peter II
becomes
Tsar
of
Russia
.
- 1780
-
American Revolutionary War
: At the
Battle of the Waxhaws
, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113.
- 1790
?
Rhode Island
becomes the 13th State of the
US
.
- 1798
- United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United
Irishmen
are massacred by the British
Army
in
County Kildare
,
Ireland
.
- 1825
- King
Charles X of France
crowns himself in
Reims
.
- 1848
?
Wisconsin
becomes the 30th State of the
US
.
- 1852
- Operatic singer
Jenny Lind
leaves
New York City
after a two-year tour of the
United States
.
- 1867
? The
Austro-Hungarian
compromise establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Emperor
Franz Joseph I of Austria
becomes King of
Hungary
on
June 8
.
- 1886
?
Chemist
John Pemberton
advertises
Coca-Cola
in the
Atlanta Journal
.
- 1900
-
N'Djamena
is founded as
Fort Lamy
by
French
commander Emile Gentil.
- 1913
-
Igor Stravinsky
's
ballet
score
The Rite of Spring
receives its first performance in
Paris
, with a riot later occurring.
- 1914
? The Ocean liner RMS
Empress of Ireland
sinks in the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
, killing 1,024 people.
- 1917
?
John F. Kennedy
is born in Brookline,
Massachusetts
.
- 1918
- The current
Flag
of
Finland
is introduced.
- 1918
-
Armenia
defeats the Ottoman Army in the
Battle of Sardarabad
.
- 1919
-
Albert Einstein
's theory of General Relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois.
- 1931
- Michele Schirru, a
US
citizen, is executed by an Italian
military
firing squad for intent to kill
Benito Mussolini
.
- 1935
- The
Messerschmidt Bf 109
fighter
aircraft
has its first flight.
- 1939
-
Albanian
Fascist
leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the
Italian
Chamber of
Fasces
and
Corporations
.
- 1942
-
Bing Crosby
, the Ken Darby singers and the John Scott Trotter
Orchestra
record
Irving Berlin
's song
White Christmas
, which later becomes the best-selling
Christmas
single ever.
- 1948
- Creation of the
UN
peacekeeping force, the
UN
Truce Supervision Organization.
- 1953
?
Jack Catain Jr.
, an American
businessman
, marries Marlene Noble, an
apparel
sales associate
, in
Cook County, Illinois
.
- 1953
?
Tenzing Norgay
and
Edmund Hillary
become the first humans to reach the top of
Mount Everest
.
- 1954
- The first of the yearly
Bilderberg
conferences takes place.
- 1964
- The
Arab League
meets in East
Jerusalem
to discuss the
Palestinian
question, leading to the formation of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization
.
- 1966
- The
Azteca Stadium
opens in
Mexico City
and has a capacity of 105,000. It goes on to host the final of the
FIFA World Cup
on two occasions, in
1970
and
1986
.
- 1973
?
Tom Bradley
is elected the first
African American
Mayor
of
Los Angeles
.
- 1974
-
Yitzhak Rabin
replaces
Golda Meir
as
Prime Minister
of
Israel
.
- 1982
-
Falklands War
: British forces defeat the Argentines at the
Battle of Goose Green
.
- 1982
?
Pope John Paul II
visits
Canterbury
cathedral
.
- 1985
? One of
Europe
's worst ever stadium disasters occurs after a riot at the
Heysel Stadium
in
Brussels
,
Belgium
, in which 39 people are killed. As a result,
English
football
teams are banned from
European
Competition - the ban is removed a few years later.
- 1985
- Amputee
Steve Fonyo
completes a cross-
Canada
marathon
in
Victoria, British Columbia
, after 14 months.
- 1986
- The current 12-star
Flag
of the
European Union
is first raised in
Brussels
.
- 1988
- US President
Ronald Reagan
begins his first official visit to the
Soviet Union
, to meet with
Mikhail Gorbachev
.
- 1990
- The
Russian
parliament
elects
Boris Yeltsin
as
President
of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
.
- 1994
?
East Germany
's former leader
Erich Honecker
dies in
Santiago, Chile
, at the age of 81.
- 1999
?
Olusegun Obasanjo
becomes
President
of
Nigeria
.
- 1999
? The
Space Shuttle
Discovery
completes its first docking with the
International Space Station
.
- 1265
?
Dante Alighieri
,
Italian
poet
(d.
1321
)
- 1439
-
Pope Pius III
(d.
1503
)
- 1594
-
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
, Bavarian field marshal (d.
1632
)
- 1627
-
Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier
, French
aristocrat
(d.
1693
)
- 1630
?
Charles II
,
King
of
England
,
Ireland
and
Scotland
(d.
1685
)
- 1675
-
Humphry Ditton
, English
mathematician
(d.
1715
)
- 1716
-
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
, French
botanist
(d.
1800
)
- 1736
?
Patrick Henry
, 1st
Governor
of
Virginia
(d.
1799
)
- 1773
?
Princess Sophia of Gloucester
(d.
1844
)
- 1780
-
Henri Braconnot
, French
chemist
and pharmacist (d.
1855
)
- 1794
-
Johann Heinrich von Madler
, German
astronomer
(d.
1874
)
- 1823
-
John H. Balsley
, American
carpenter
and
inventor
(d.
1895
)
- 1830
-
Louise Michel
, French
writer
and
anarchist
(d.
1905
)
- 1860
?
Isaac Albeniz
,
Spanish
composer
(d.
1909
)
- 1868
-
Abdulmecid II
, last
Caliph
of the
Ottoman Dynasty
(d.
1944
)
- 1871
-
Clark Greenwood Voorhees
, American painter (d.
1933
)
- 1873
-
Rudolf Tobias
,
Estonian
composer
(d.
1918
)
- 1874
?
G. K. Chesterton
, English
novelist
(d.
1936
)
- 1880
?
Oswald Spengler
, German
philosopher
(d.
1936
)
- 1892
-
Alfonsina Storni
, Swiss-Argentine
poet
(d.
1938
)
- 1893
-
Max Brand
, American writer (d.
1944
)
- 1894
-
Beatrice Lillie
, Canadian
actress
(d.
1989
)
- 1894
-
Josef von Sternberg
,
Austrian
-American
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
(d.
1969
)
- 1897
-
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
,
Austrian
composer
(d.
1957
)
- 1899
-
Douglas Abbott
, Canadian
politician
(d.
1987
)
- 1903
?
Bob Hope
,
British
-born
American
comedian
and
actor
(d.
2003
)
- 1904
?
Gregg Toland
, American
cameraman
(d.
1948
)
- 1905
?
Sebastian Shaw
, English
actor
,
director
and
playwright
(d.
1994
)
- 1906
?
T. H. White
, English
writer
(d.
1964
)
- 1911
?
Armida
, Mexican-American
actress
,
singer
and
dancer
(d.
1989
)
- 1914
?
Stacy Keach, Sr.
, American
actor
(d.
2003
)
- 1914
?
Sherpa
Tenzing Norgay
,
Nepalese
mountain guide, reached the top of
Mount Everest
with
Edmund Hillary
(d.
1986
)
- 1917
?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
, 35th
President of the United States
(d.
1963
)
- 1919
?
Jacques Genest
, Canadian
physician
- 1920
?
John Harsanyi
,
Hungarian
-born
economist
(d.
2000
)
- 1923
?
Bernard Clavel
,
French
writer
(d.
2010
)
- 1924
?
Lars Bo
,
Danish
writer and
artist
(d.
1999
)
- 1924
?
Behjat Sadr
, Iranian painter (d.
2009
)
- 1926
?
Katie Boyle
, British
actress
and
television
presenter (d.
2018
)
- 1926
?
Charles Denner
, French
actor
(d.
1995
)
- 1926
?
Abdoulaye Wade
, former
President
of
Senegal
- 1928
?
Jacques Taminiaux
, Belgian philosopher
- 1929
?
Peter Higgs
, British
physicist
(
Higgs boson
) and
Nobel Prize in Physics
winner
- 1929
?
Harry Frankfurt
, American
philosopher
- 1930
?
Jack Catain Jr.
, American
businessman
and
convicted
criminal
(d.
1987
)
- 1932
?
Richie Guerin
, American
basketball
player
- 1932
?
Paul R. Ehrlich
, American
biologist
and
writer
- 1933
?
Helmuth Rilling
, German
choral
conductor and teacher
- 1934
?
Bill Vander Zalm
,
Dutch
-
Canadian
politician
, 28th
Premier
of
British Columbia
- 1935
?
Andre Brink
, South African
writer
(d.
2015
)
- 1937
?
Jasper Griffin
, English
classical
philologist
- 1937
?
Hibari Misora
,
Japanese
actress
(d.
1989
)
- 1937
?
Alwin Schockemohle
, German showjumper
- 1938
?
Christopher Bland
, British businessman and politician (d.
2017
)
- 1939
?
Al Unser
, American racing driver
- 1940
?
Farooq Leghari
,
President of Pakistan
(d.
2010
)
- 1940
?
Taiho Koki
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
2013
)
- 1941
?
Doug Scott
, English
mountaineer
- 1941
?
Bob Simon
, American
television
correspondent (d.
2015
)
- 1942
?
Pierre Bourque
, Canadian politician, 40th
Mayor
of
Montreal
- 1942
?
Kevin Conway
, American
actor
- 1944
?
Bob Benmosche
, American businessman (d.
2015
)
- 1944
?
Maurice Bishop
,
Prime Minister
of
Grenada
(d.
1983
)
- 1944
?
Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford
, English
politician
- 1945
?
Gary Brooker
, English
singer-songwriter
and
pianist
- 1945
?
Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
, Scottish politician (d.
2013
)
- 1945
?
Catherine Lara
, French
singer-songwriter
and
violinist
- 1947
?
Anthony Geary
, American actor
- 1947
?
Joey Levine
, American
singer-songwriter
and
producer
- 1947
?
Gene Robinson
, American
bishop
- 1947
?
Constantino Romero
, Spanish
radio
host and
actor
(d.
2013
)
- 1948
?
Nick Mancuso
, Italian-Canadian
actor
- 1949
?
Robert Axelrod
, American actor
- 1949
?
Francis Rossi
, English
musician
(
Status Quo
)
- 1950
?
Rebbie Jackson
, American singer
- 1951
-
Peter Chernin
,
President
of
News Corporation
- 1952
-
Zeituni Onyango
,
Kenyan
-American
computer
programmer (d.
2014
)
- 1953
-
Aleksandr Abdulov
, Russian
actor
and
director
(d.
2008
)
- 1953
?
Danny Elfman
, American
singer
, composer,
musician
("
Oingo Boingo
")
- 1955
-
Carme Forcadell
,
Catalan
politician
- 1955
-
Gordon Rintoul
,
Director
of the
National Museums of Scotland
- 1955
-
Mike Porcaro
, American
musician
(
Toto
) (d.
2015
)
- 1955
?
John Hinckley, Jr.
, American attempted assassin
- 1956
?
La Toya Jackson
, American
singer
- 1956
-
Mark Lyall Grant
, English
diplomat
,
UK
Ambassador
to the
United Nations
- 1956
-
Bjarni Fridriksson
, Icelandic
judoka
- 1957
-
Ted Levine
, American actor
- 1958
-
Karen Maruyama
, Japanese-American
actress
- 1958
-
Mike Stenhouse
, American
baseball
player
- 1958
-
Wayne Duvall
, American actor
- 1958
?
Annette Bening
, American
actress
- 1959
?
Rupert Everett
,
English
actor
- 1959
-
Steve Hanley
, Irish-English
bass
player and
songwriter
- 1961
-
Melissa Etheridge
, American
singer-songwriter
,
guitarist
and
activist
- 1962
-
Fandi Ahmad
,
Singaporean
footballer
, coach and manager
- 1962
-
Carol Kirkwood
, Scottish
weather
presenter
- 1962
-
Semino Rossi
, Argentine-Italian singer
- 1963
-
Blaze Bayley
, English
singer-songwriter
(
Iron Maiden
)
- 1967
?
Noel Gallagher
, English
musician
(
Oasis
)
- 1970
-
Roberto Di Matteo
, Italian
footballer
and manager
- 1971
-
Rob Womack
, British
paralympic
athlete
- 1972
-
Stanislas
, French
singer-songwriter
- 1972
-
Bill Curley
, American
basketball
player
- 1972
-
Simon Jones
, British
singer
and
bass
player
- 1975
?
Melanie Brown
, English singer (
Spice Girls
)
- 1975
-
Sarah Millican
, English
comedienne
- 1976
-
Yegor Titov
, Russian
footballer
- 1977
?
Massimo Ambrosini
, Italian
footballer
- 1977
?
Marco Cassetti
, Italian
footballer
- 1977
-
Antonio Lebo Lebo
,
Angolan
footballer
- 1978
-
Pelle Almqvist
, Swedish
singer-songwriter
and
bass
player (
The Hives
)
- 1978
?
Sebastien Grosjean
, French
tennis
player
- 1978
-
Lorenzo Odone
, Italian
Adrenoleukodystrophy
patient (d.
2008
)
- 1978
-
Adam Rickitt
, English
singer
and
actor
- 1979
?
Arne Friedrich
,
German
footballer
- 1979
-
Brian Kendrick
, American
professional wrestler
- 1979
-
Fonseca
, Colombian
singer
- 1981
?
Andrei Arshavin
,
Russian
footballer
- 1982
-
Ana Beatriz Barros
,
Brazilian
model
- 1982
-
Joanne Borgella
, American
singer
and
model
(d.
2014
)
- 1982
?
Anita Briem
,
Icelandic
actress
- 1982
-
Bjarte Myrhol
, Norwegian
handball
player
- 1983
-
Jean Makoun
,
Cameroonian
footballer
- 1984
?
Carmelo Anthony
, American
NBA
basketball
player
- 1985
-
Hernanes
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1986
-
Hornswoggle
, American
professional wrestler
- 1987
-
Alessandra Torresani
, American actress
- 1988
-
Cheng Fei
,
Chinese
gymnast
- 1988
-
Steve Mason
, Canadian
ice hockey
goaltender
- 1988
-
Muath Al-Kasasbeh
, Jordanian air force pilot (d.
2015
)
- 1989
-
Riley Keough
, American
model
and
actress
- 1989
-
Brandon Mychal Smith
, American
actor
,
singer
and
dancer
- 1992
-
Gregg Sulkin
, British actor
- 1998
-
Lucia Gil
, Spanish
singer
and
actress
- 1259
? King
Christopher I of Denmark
(b.
1219
)
- 1379
-
Henry II of Castile
(b.
1334
)
- 1425
?
Hongxi Emperor
of
China
(b.
1378
)
- 1453
-
Constantine XI Palaiologus
,
Byzantine Emperor
(b.
1404
)
- 1500
-
Bartolomeu Dias
, Portuguese explorer (b.
1451
)
- 1546
-
David Beaton
, Scottish
cardinal
and
politician
(b.
1494
)
- 1814
?
Josephine de Beauharnais
,
Empress
of
France
(b.
1763
)
- 1829
?
Humphrey Davy
, British chemist (b.
1778
)
- 1866
?
Winfield Scott
, American
general
(b.
1786
)
- 1868
?
Michael Obrenovich III
of
Serbia
(b.
1823
)
- 1883
-
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
(b.
1810
)
- 1892
?
Baha'u'llah
, founder of the
Baha'i
religion (b.
1817
)
- 1903
-
Bruce Price
, American
architect
(b.
1845
)
- 1910
-
Mily Balakirev
,
Russian
pianist
,
composer
and
conductor
(b.
1837
)
- 1911
-
W. S. Gilbert
, English
playwright
and
poet
(b.
1836
)
- 1919
?
Robert Bacon
, 39th
United States Secretary of State
(b.
1860
)
- 1931
-
Michele Schirru
,
US
citizen executed by an Italian military firing squad
- 1935
-
Josef Suk
,
Czech
violinist
and
composer
(b.
1874
)
- 1939
-
Ursula Ledochowska
, Austrian-Polish
nun
and
saint
(b.
1865
)
- 1942
-
John Barrymore
, American actor (b.
1882
)
- 1948
-
May Whitty
, English actress (b.
1865
)
- 1951
?
Fanny Brice
, American singer and comedienne (b.
1891
)
- 1958
?
Juan Ramon Jimenez
, Spanish writer (b.
1881
)
- 1972
-
Prithviraj Kapoor
, Indian actor (b.
1901
)
- 1973
-
P. Ramlee
,
Malaysian
actor
,
director
,
producer
and
composer
(b.
1929
)
- 1973
-
George Harriman
, English
rugby
[
disambiguation needed
]
player and managing director (b.
1908
)
- 1977
-
Ba Maw
,
Prime Minister
of
Burma
(b.
1893
)
- 1979
?
Mary Pickford
, Canadian-born actress (b.
1892
)
- 1982
?
Romy Schneider
, Austrian-French
actress
(b.
1938
)
- 1987
-
Charan Singh
, 5th
Prime Minister
of
India
(b.
1902
)
- 1988
-
Siaka Stevens
,
President
of
Sierra Leone
(b.
1905
)
- 1989
-
John Cipollina
, American
guitarist
(b.
1943
)
- 1994
?
Erich Honecker
, East German political leader (b.
1913
)
- 1996
-
Tamara Toumanova
, Russian-American
ballerina
and
actress
(b.
1919
)
- 1997
?
Jeff Buckley
, American musician (b.
1966
)
- 1998
?
Barry Goldwater
,
United States
Senator
(b.
1909
)
- 2004
-
Archibald Cox
, American
lawyer
and
politician
(b.
1912
)
- 2008
?
Luc Bourdon
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1987
)
- 2009
?
Karine Ruby
, French snowboarder (b.
1978
)
- 2010
?
Dennis Hopper
, American actor (b.
1936
)
- 2011
?
Sergei Bagapsh
,
President
of
Abkhazia
(b.
1949
)
- 2011
?
Ferenc Madl
,
President
of
Hungary
(b.
1931
)
- 2011
-
Bill Clements
, 42nd
Governor
of
Texas
(b.
1917
)
- 2012
-
Kaneto Shindo
, Japanese
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
(b.
1912
)
- 2012
-
Doc Watson
, American
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
(b.
1923
)
- 2013
-
Mulgrew Miller
, American
pianist
(b.
1955
)
- 2013
-
Franca Rame
, Italian
actress
(b.
1929
)
- 2014
-
Karlheinz Bohm
, Austrian-German actor (b.
1928
)
- 2014
-
Walter Jakob Gehring
, Swiss developmental biologist (b.
1939
)
- 2014
-
Christine Charbonneau
, Canadian singer and songwriter (b.
1943
)
- 2015
-
Bruno Pesaola
, Italian
footballer
(b.
1925
)
- 2015
-
Ed Gilligan
, American financial executive,
President
of
American Express
(b.
1960
)
- 2015
-
Doris Hart
, American
tennis
player (b.
1925
)
- 2015
-
Betsy Palmer
, American
actress
(b.
1926
)
- 2016
-
Ralph Ketner
, American businessman (b.
1920
)
- 2016
-
T. Marshall Hahn
, American academic administrator (b.
1926
)
- 2016
-
Don McNay
, American financial writer and columnist (b.
1959
)
- 2017
-
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
,
Prime Minister
of
Greece
(b.
1918
)
- 2017
-
Manuel Noriega
,
Panamanian
military leader (b.
1934
)
- 2017
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Mordechai Tzipori
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1924
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- 2017
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Michael A'Hearn
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1940
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- 2018
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Yoseph Imry
, Israeli
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(b.
1939
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