List of May 29 Historical Events and Facts
- 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.
- 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 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 …mile Gentil
- 1903: May coup d’etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand 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: 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.
- 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 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 CÛrdoba, 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: 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.
- 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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