Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). There are 216 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances Events 1414 - Council of Constance 1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the thrown of England 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 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 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal). 1886 - Putney Bridge opened in west London 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia 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 - Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirm Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (see Arthur Eddington). 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. 1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. 1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match. 1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia after 14 months. Births 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, general (+ 1632) 1630 - King Charles II of England (+ 1685) 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (+ 1799) 1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (+ 1909) 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, novelist (+ 1936) 1880 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher, Decline of the West (+ 1936) 1893 - Max Brand, author, war correspondent (+ 1944) 1894 - Beatrice Lillie, actress (+ 1989) 1894 - Josef von Sternberg, writer, director (+ 1969) 1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor (+ 2003) 1906 - T.H. White, author (+ 1964) 1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 above) (+ 1986) 1914 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (+ 1988) 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (+ 1963) 1922 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (+ 2001) 1933 - John Mayall, musician 1944 - Helmut Berger, actor 1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (+2000) 1948 - Anthony Geary, actor 1953 - Danny Elfman, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo") 1958 - Annette Bening, actress 1959 - Rupert Everett, actor 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, musician Deaths 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor. 1814 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France 1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith) 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia 1910 - Mily Balakirev, composer 1911 - William S. Gilbert, dramatist 1942 - John Barrymore, actor 1948 - Dame May Whitty, actress 1951 - Fanny Brice, singer, comedienne, actress 1979 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder 1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest) 1995 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile in Chile 1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning) 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator Holidays and Observances Bahá'í Faith:Ascension of Bahá'u'llah See Also: May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.