WillDekkard
05-29-2010, 04:17 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 29th
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* 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: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
* 1414 Council of Constance.
* 1453 Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih sack and capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
* 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 Natives.
* 1727 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
* 1780 American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws 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.
* 1900 N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Ιmile Gentil
* 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 receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
* 1914 Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
* 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, Cearα, 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.
* 1935 The Hoover Dam is completed.
* 1939 Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
* 1940 The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
* 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
* 1945 First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
* 1948 Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
* 1950 The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
* 1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become 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 question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
* 1969 General strike in Cσrdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
* 1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
* 1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff 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 when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
* 1989 Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F - 16 in Egypt.
* 1990 The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
* 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.
* 1999 Charlotte Perrelli wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for Sweden in Jerusalem, Israel with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
* 2001 U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
* 2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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- May 29th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
* 1414 Council of Constance.
* 1453 Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih sack and capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
* 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 Natives.
* 1727 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
* 1780 American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws 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.
* 1900 N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Ιmile Gentil
* 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 receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
* 1914 Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
* 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, Cearα, 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.
* 1935 The Hoover Dam is completed.
* 1939 Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
* 1940 The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
* 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
* 1945 First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
* 1948 Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
* 1950 The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
* 1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become 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 question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
* 1969 General strike in Cσrdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
* 1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
* 1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff 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 when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
* 1989 Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F - 16 in Egypt.
* 1990 The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
* 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.
* 1999 Charlotte Perrelli wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for Sweden in Jerusalem, Israel with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
* 2001 U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
* 2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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