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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.

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: 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.
• 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 Émile 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, 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.
• 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 Córdoba, 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 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.
• 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.

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 F. 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)
• 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
• 1927 – Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
• 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
• 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)
• 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (d. 1989)
• 1938 – Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
• 1939 – Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver
• 1940 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
• 1941 – Doug Scott, British mountaineer
• 1942 – Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
• 1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
• 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
• 1945 – Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)
• 1945 – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
• 1946 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
• 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
• 1949 – Andrew Clements, American author
• 1949 – Brian Kidd, English footballer
• 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
• 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 singer
• 1957 – Jeb Hensarling, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas
• 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
• 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
• 1960 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American musician
• 1962 – Eric Davis, American baseball player
• 1962 – John D. LeMay, American actor
• 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singapore footballer
• 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
• 1964 – Howard Mills III, New York State politician
• 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English musician (former Oasis)
• 1967 – Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player
• 1968 – Tate George, American basketball player
• 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 – Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
• 1971 – Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
• 1971 – Bernd Mayländer, Formula One Safety Car driver
• 1972 – Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
• 1972 – Stanislas Renoult, French singer
• 1972 – Bill Curley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Simon Jones, British musician (The Verve)
• 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
• 1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
• 1974 – Macka, blogger, messageboarder and gamer
• 1974 – Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player
• 1975 – Melanie Brown, English musician and actress (Spice Girls)
• 1975 – Daniel Tosh, American comedian
• 1975 – Anthony Wall, English golfer
• 1976 – David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
• 1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
• 1976 – Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
• 1976 – Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
• 1976 – Egor Titov, Russian footballer
• 1977 – Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Scott Allen, American figure skater
• 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor
• 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
• 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1978 – Lorenzo Odone, American patient (d. 2008)
• 1978 – Adam Rickitt, British actor
• 1979 – Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
• 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German football player
• 1979 – John Rheinecker, baseball player
• 1979 – Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
• 1979 – Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singapore footballer
• 1979 – Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress
• 1980 – Ernesto Farías, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Justin Chon, American actor
• 1982 – Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
• 1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• 1982 – Joanne Borgella, American model and singer
• 1982 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
• 1982 – Matt Macri, American baseball player
• 1983 – Joanna Higson, English actress
• 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
• 1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
• 1986 – Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler
• 1986 – Valy, Iranian/German singer
• 1987 – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
• 1987 – Noah Reid, Canadian actor
• 1989 – Riley Keough, American model
• 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)
• 1873 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 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)
• 1917 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831)
• 1919 – Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (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)
• 1951 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (b. 1885)
• 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 – Arvīds 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 (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)
• 2005 – Hamilton Naki, South African medical assistant (b. 1926)
• 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 (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
• 2008 – Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder and Olympic champion (b. 1978)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
• Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
• Nepal: Republic Day
• Nigeria: Democracy Day
• Rhode Island, Wisconsin: Statehood Day
• United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day (historic, not widely observed today)
• Blessed Adhemar
• Saint Erwin
• Saint Maximinus of Trier
• Saint Theodosia
• Saint Alexander of Alexandria
• Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ Steven Wright

• selected by Kalki

2005

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. ~ T. H. White (born 29 May 1906)

• selected by Kalki

2006

It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton (born 29 May 1874)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ John F. Kennedy

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. - G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. - G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• This was already used on 13 July 2004
• 0 since it was already used. Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. - G. K. Chesterton

• 3 4 on reviewing it! Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:37, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
• 4 InvisibleSun 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• This was already used on 21 January 2004
• 0 since it was already used. Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

When I was a child, I was told anyone can become president. Now, I'm starting to believe it. (Found on a "Good Earth" tea bag)

—This unsigned comment is by 198.236.184.8 (talk • contribs) .

• 2 Kalki 06:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Interesting quote, but no clear author, and no clear relationship to the date.
• 3 but I wonder who said it Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 0 Unless source found. InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. ~ Oswald Spengler

• 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ~ Oswald Spengler

• 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 3 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 3 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy

• 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• This one was already used. (I will try to update this page more, fully listing JFK and GKC quotes used on other dates, within the next day or two) ~ Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down ... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• 3 Ningauble 00:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on May 29.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2007
  • Tomb Raider Anniversary (PC) (PS2)
  • Mario Party 8 (Wii)
  • Shadowrun (X360)
  • Forza Motorsport 2 (X360)

From Familypedia

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.

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.
• 757 - Paul I succeeds Stephen II as pope.
• 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.
• 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 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
• 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!"
• 1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were 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 - 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.
• 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.
• 1886 - Putney Bridge opens in west London.
• 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.
• 1914 - Ocean liner 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, Brazil.
• 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 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.
• 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 39th birthday.
• 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.
• 1968 - Manchester United wins the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.
• 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.
• 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: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured by Liverpool fans at a European Cup match.
• 1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, 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 could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington
• 2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
• 2005 - France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.

Births

• 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
• 1627 - Anne, French writer (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, Irish politician (d. 1773)
• 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
• 1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
• 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, 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
• 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, American race car driver
• 1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
• 1941 - Roy Crewdson, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)
• 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
• 1949 - Brian Kidd, English footballer
• 1950 - Rebbie Jackson, American musician
• 1951 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
• 1953 - Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)
• 1955 - John Hinckley, American attempted assassin
• 1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
• 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 - 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)
• 1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
• 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
• 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
• 1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1978 - Lorenzo Odone, Adrenoleukodystrophy victim
• 1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
• 1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Arne Friedrich, German footballer
• 1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
• 1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• 1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
• 1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
• 1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
• 1987 - Alessandra Toreson, American actress
• 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, 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 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 Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1970 - John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
• 1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
• 1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
• 1979 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
• 1979 - John H. Wood, American federal judge (b. 1916)
• 1982 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 - Arvīds 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 - Lois Browne-Evans, Legendary Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
• Nigeria: Democracy Day
• United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day.

Liturgical feasts

• Blessed Adhemar
• Saint Erwin
• Saint Maximinus of Trier
• Saint Theodosia
• Saint Alexander of Alexandria

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada