On this day in History - May 29

• 0363 - 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.
• 0757 - Paul I succeeds Stephen III 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.
• 1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark dies (b. 1219)
• 1379 - King Henry II of Castile dies (b. 1334)
• 1405 - Philippe de Mézières dies. Advisor to Charles V of France
• 1414 - Council of Constance.
• 1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China dies (b. 1378)
• 1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine empire.
• 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus dies (b. 1404). Last Byzantine emperor.
• 1453 - Constantinopla é conquistada pelos Turcos, que lhe dão o nome de Istambul. É o fim do Império Bizantino. Marca, na cronologia histórica, a passagem da Idade Média para a Idade Moderna
• 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias dies. Portuguese explorer.
• 1546 - David Beaton dies. Scottish Catholic cardinal
• 1593 - John Penry dies (b. 1559). Welsh Protestant leader.
• 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was born (d. 1632). Bavarian general.
• 1627 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier was born (d. 1693). French writer.
• 1630 - King Charles II of England was born (d. 1685)
• 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England.
• 1660 - A monarquia inglesa é restaurada na pessoa de Carlos II, representante da dinastia Stuart. O rei casará mais tarde com a infanta portuguesa D. Catarina de Bragança, filha de D. João IV.
• 1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough was born (d. 1744).
• 1660 - Frans van Schooten dies (b. 1615). Dutch mathematician.
• 1675 - Humphry Ditton was born (d. 1715). English mathematician.
• 1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
• 1691 - Cornelis Tromp dies (b. 1629). Dutch admiral.
• 1716 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was born (d. 1 Jan 1800). French naturalist who was a prolific pioneer in the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology
• 1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster was born (d. 1773). Irish politician.
• 1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
• 1736 - Patrick Henry was born (d. 1799). American patriot.
• 1765 - Patrick Henry in a speech denouncing the Stamp Act is said to have said, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
• 1765 - O czar Pedro II assume o trono da Rússia.
• 1767 - Philippe Lebon was born (d. 2 Dec 1804). French engineer and chemist, inventor of illuminating gas
• 1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.
• 1781 - Henri Braconnot was born (d. 13 Jan 1855). French chemist known for isolating glucose, a simple sugar, directly from such plant material as sawdust, linen or bark by boiling them with acid (1819).
• 1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitutionand is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
• 1790 - Israel Putnam dies (b. 1718). American Revolutionary War general.
• 1791 - Revolução francesa: fala-se pela primeira vez no lema Liberdade, Igualdade, Fraternidade, na Sociedade de Amigos dos Direitos Humanos.
• 1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler was born (d. 14 Mar 1874). German astronomer who (with Wilhelm Beer) published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. (1834-36).
• 1794 - Antoine A. B. Bussy was born (d. 1 Feb 1882). French chemist.
• 1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin dies (b. 1720). Swedish politician.
• 1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais dies (b. 1763). Empress of France.
• 1823 - John H. Balsley was born (d. 1895). American carpenter.
• 1829 – Humphry Davy dies (b. 17 Dec 1778). English chemist who discovered several chemical elements and compounds, invented the miner's safety lamp, and epitomized the scientific method.
• 1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy dies (b. 1766). French marshal.
• 1848 - Criação da Carbonaria Lusitânia, sociedade secreta, fundada em Coimbra, defensora do regime republicano.
• 1848 - Wisonsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1855 - Sir David Bruce was born (d. 27 Nov 1931). English pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta-fever and trypanosomes, identifying the cause of sleeping sickness.
• 1857 - Charles Richard Van Hise was born (d. 19 Nov 1918). American geologist who conducted basic geological studies of the Precambrian
• 1860 - Isaac Albéniz was born (d. 1909). Spanish composer.
• 1863 - Arthur Mold was born (d. 1921). Controversial Lancashire fast bowler and alleged "chucker".
• 1864 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• 1866 - Winfield Scott dies (b. 1786). American general and presidential candidate.
• 1866 - Henry Darwin Rogers dies (b. 1 Aug 1808). American structural geologist who contributed much to the theory of mountain building through his studies of the geology of Pennsylvania.
• 1867 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary
• 1868 - Michael Obrenovich III dies assassinated in Belgrade (b. 1823). Prince of Serbia
• 1874 - G. K. Chesterton was born (d. 1936). English novelist.
• 1880 - Oswald Spengler was born (d. 1936). German philosopher.
• 1882 - Vasily Perov dies (b. 1833). Russian painter.
• 1883 - Thomas A. Edison received a series of patent for some of his electrical inventions
• 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
• 1886 - Putney Bridge opened in west London.
• 1887 - Louis Leon Thurstone was born (d. 29 Sep 1955). American psychologist who improved psychometrics, the measurement of mental functions, and developed statistical techniques for multiple-factor analysis of performance on psychological tests
• 1892 - Alfonsina Storni was born (d. 1938). Argentine writer.
• 1892 - Bahá'u'lláh dies (b. 1817). Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
• 1893 - Max Brand was born (d. 1944). American author, war correspondent
• 1894 - Beatrice Lillie was born (d. 1989). Canadian actress.
• 1894 - Josef von Sternberg was born (d. 1969). Austrian-American writer, director
• 1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée dies (b. 25 June 1814). French geochemist and a pioneer in the application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena.
• 1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born (d. 1957). Austrian composer.
• 1897 - Julius von Sachs dies (b. 2 Oct 1832). German botanist who studied plant physiology during the second half of the 19th century.
• 1902 - João Norte was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1903 - Bob Hope was born (d. 2003). British-born American comedian and actor.
• 1903 - Draga Mašin dies (b. 1864). Queen of Serbia.
• 1903 - Bruce Price dies (b. 1845). American architect.
• 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich dies (b. 1876). King of Serbia
• 1905 - Sebastian Shaw was born (d. 1994). English actor.
• 1906 - T.H. White was born (d. 1964). British author.
• 1906 - Giovanni Giolitti assume (pela 3º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Itália.
• 1906 - Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Suécia
• 1907 - Hartland Molson was born (d. 2002). Canadian businessman and senator.
• 1908 - William Arnold Anthony dies (b. 17 Nov 1835). American physicist and pioneer in the teaching of electrical engineering in the United States
• 1910 - Mily Balakirev dies (b. 1837). Russian composer.
• 1911 - 1st running of Indianapolis 500
• 1911 - Portugal: Teófilo Braga é proclamado presidente da República, em substituição de Manuel de Arriaga, que se tinha demitido do cargo. Completará o mandato deste até 5 de Outubro de 1815.
• 1911 - Armida was born (d. 1989). Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star
• 1911 - William S. Gilbert dies (b. 1836). English dramatist.
• 1912 - Chien-Shiung Wu was born (d. 16 Feb 1997). Chinese-born American physicist who provided the first experimental proof (1956) that parity is not conserved in weak subatomic interactions of nuclear beta decay
• 1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
• 1913 - Tony Zale was born (d. 1997). American boxer.
• 1914 - Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
• 1914 - Tenzing Norgay was born (d. 1986). Nepalese sherpa.
• 1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1914 - Eduard Pestel was born (d. 1988). Scientist and engineer.
• 1915 - Karl Münchinger was born (d. 190). German conductor.
• 1915 - William S. Gilbert dies (b. 1836). English dramatist.
• 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born (d. 1963). 35th President of the United States.
• 1918 - Vitorino de Magalhães Godinho was born. Portuguese historian.
• 1918 - Santa-Rita Pintor dies. Portuguese painter.
• 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 - Robert Bacon dies (b. 1860). American politician.
• 1920 - John Harsanyi was born (d. 2000). Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1922 - Ecuador becomes independent
• 1922 - António Campos was born. Portuguese film director.
• 1922 - Iannis Xenakis was born in Braila Romania (d. 2001). Composer.
• 1925 - Eduardo Brasão dies. Portuguese theatre entrepreneur and actor.
• 1926 - Charles Denner was born (d. 1995). French actor.
• 1926 - Portugal: II Congress of PCP (Portuguese Communist Party).
• 1927 - Jean Coutu was born. Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
• 1929 - Peter Higgs was born. English theoretical physicist
• 1932 - WW I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
• 1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich was born. American biologist and educator who in 1990 shared Sweden's Crafoord Prize (established in 1980 and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, to support those areas of science not covered by the Nobel Prizes) with biologist E.O. Wilson.
• 1932 - Richie Guerin was born. Former basketball player
• 1933 - John Mayall was born. Musician
• 1933 - Helmuth Rilling was born. German conductor
• 1933 - Edward Whittemore was born (d. 1995). American writer
• 1935 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1935 - Josef Suk dies (b. 1874). Czech composer and violinist.
• 1937 - Charles W. Pickering was born. American judge
• 1938 - Fay Vincent was born. Former commissioner of baseball
• 1939 - Al Unser was born. American race car driver.
• 1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska dies (b. 1865). Polish-Austrian Catholic saint.
• 1940 - Farooq Leghari was born. President of Pakistan
• 1941 - Roy Crewsdon was born. British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)
• 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.
• 1942 - Kevin Conway was born. American actor
• 1942 - Pierre Bourque was born. Former mayor of Montreal
• 1942 - John Barrymore dies (b. 1882). American actor.
• 1944 - Helmut Berger was born. Actor
• 1945 - Gary Brooker was born. Musician (Procol Harum)
• 1946 - Fernando Buesa was born (d. 2000). Basque politician.
• 1946 - Martin Weiss dies (b. 1905). Commandant of Dachau concentration camp.
• 1947 - Gene Robinson was born. American ecclesiastic
• 1947 - Anthony Geary was born. American actor
• 1948 - Dame May Whitty dies (b. 1865). English actress.
• 1949 - Brian Kidd was born. English footballer.
• 1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• 1950 - Rebbie Jackson was born. American musician.
• 1951 - Peter Chernin was born. President of News Corporation
• 1951 - Fanny Brice dies (b. 1891). American singer, comedienne, and actress.
• 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.
• 1953 - Danny Elfman was born. American musician (Oingo Boingo)
• 1953 - Man Mountain Dean dies (b. 1891). American professional wrestler.
• 1955 - John Hinckley Jr. was born. American attempted assassin.
• 1955 - Sut Jhally was born. Kenyan-born American educator.
• 1956 - LaToya Jackson was born. American musician
• 1957 - Jeb Hensarling was born. American politician
• 1957 - Ted Levine was born. American actor.
• 1957 - Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was born. French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 for his work in dynamical systems. Such studies began with Poincaré about the turn of the 20th century, who considered the stability of the solar system.
• 1958 - Annette Bening was born. American actress.
• 1958 - Willem Holleeder was born. Dutch criminal
• 1958 - Juan Ramón Jiménez dies (b. 1881). Spanish poet (Nobel 1956).
• 1958 - Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Champions Cup in Brussels
• 1959 - Adrian Paul was born. English actor
• 1959 - Rupert Everett was born. English actor
• 1959 - Cinha Jardim was born. Portuguese Jet Set personality
• 1959 - Charles de Gaulle forms French government
• 1961 - Melissa Etheridge was born. American singer, songwriter, guitarist (Never Enough) .
• 1961 - David Palmer was born. Heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
• 1961 - Gregory Williams was born. American educator and designer.
• 1961 - Arnold Gesell dies (b. 21 June 1880). American psychologist and pediatrician who pioneered the use of motion-picture cameras (1926) to study the physical and mental development of normal infants and children
• 1962 - Eric Davis was born. American baseball player
• 1962 - John D. LeMay was born. American actor
• 1963 - Blaze Bayley was born. British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
• 1963 - Lisa Whelchel was born. American actress
• 1963 - Debora Bloch was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1965 - Emilio Sanchez was born in Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
• 1967 - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
• 1967 - Noel Gallagher was born. English musician (Oasis)
• 1967 - Mike Keane was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1968 - Manchester United wins the European Cup, in London, beating Benfica after extra-time 4-1 (1-1 at the end of 90' minutes) becoming the first English Club to do so.
• 1968 - Jorge Gabriel was born. Portuguese TV presenter.
• 1969 - Cordobazo - Begin in Córdoba a working class protest, popular revolt, and urban insurrection in Argentina. 16 die and dozens of injured people.
• 1969 - Chan Kinchla was born. Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 - Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, ex-President odf Argentina, is arrested by Montoneros and later assassinated
• 1970 - Roberto di Matteo was born in Schaffhausen. Swiss-born Italian football player
• 1970 - John Gunther dies (b. 1901). American writer.
• 1971 - The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Brown Sugar'. It was the bands sixth US No.1, a No.2 hit in the UK.
• 1971 - Craig McCracken was born. American animator.
• 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.
• 1972 - Közi was born. Japanese visual kei artist.
• 1972 - Stephen Timoshenko dies (b. 1878). Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer.
• 1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1973 - Alpay Özalan was born. Turkish footballer
• 1975 - Melanie Brown was born. English musician and actress .
• 1975 - Danton Mello was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1976 - David Buckner was born. American musician (Papa Roach)
• 1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr. was born. American baseball player
• 1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
• 1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo was born. Angolan footballer
• 1977 - Zé Diogo Quintela was born. Portuguese humourist
• 1977 - Ba Maw dies (b. 1893). Burmese politician.
• 1978 - Lorenzo Odone was born. Adrenoleukodystrophy victim.
• 1978 - Pelle Almqvist was born. Swedish musician (The Hives)
• 1978 - Sébastien Grosjean was born. French tennis player
• 1979 - Brian Kendrick was born. American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Arne Friedrich was born. German footballer
• 1979 - Casey Sheehan was born (d. 2004). American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan.
• 1979 - Mary Pickford dies (b. 1892). Canadian-born American actress and studio founder.
• 1979 - John H. Wood, Jr. dies (b. 1916). American federal judge.
• 1980 - Max (Maximiano de Sousa) dies. Portuguese singer/ Morreu o cantor português Max [Maximiano de Sousa] (nasceu no Funchal em 20.01.1918). Foi uma das mais populares vedetas da rádio, do teatro e da televisão portuguesa, desde os anos quarenta até à sua morte em 1980. Quem não se lembra de “Noites da Madeira”, “Bailinho da Madeira” ou “A Mula da Cooperativa”.
• 1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff ever to visit the Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros was born. Brazilian model (See Ana Beatriz Barros wallpaper)
• 1982 - Romy Schneider dies (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938) . American actress
• 1983 - Rama Claproth was born. Indonesian blues guitarist
• 1984 - Carmelo Anthony was born. American basketball player
• 1985 - Juventus wins 30th Europe Champions Cup in Brussels
• 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.
• 1986 - Dylan Postl was born. American professional wrestler.
• 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.
• 1989 - John Cipollina dies (b. 24 Aug 1943). American musician, Quicksilver Messenger Service
• 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
• 1991 - Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Champions Cup .
• 1991 - President Franjo Tudjman proclaims the independency of Croatia.
• 1991 - Mozambican poet José Craveirinha is awarded with the Camões Prize.
• 1993 - Janet Jackson went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her fourth LP 'Janet'.
• 1993 - Billy Conn dies (b. 1917). American boxer.
• 1994 - Erich Honecker dies (b. 1912). Leader of East Germany.
• 1994 - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election.
• 1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister of Israel.
• 1996 - Jeremy Sinden dies at 45. Actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem).
• 1996 - Tamara Toumanova dies (b. 1919). Ballet star and actress.
• 1997 - George Fenneman dies (b. 1919). American radio and television announcer.
• 1997 - Jeff Buckley dies drowned (b. 1966). American musician
• 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater dies (b. 1909). American politician, Arizona Senator.
• 1998 - China assina o Protocolo de Kyoto.
• 1999 - In Jerusalem, Israel, Charlotte Nilsson wins the forty-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Take Me To Your Heaven".
• 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 - João Carlos de Oliveira, «João do Pulo» dies (b. 28 May 1954). Brazilian athlet, World Champion recordist and two golden medals in Olympics.
• 1999 - First presidential elections in Slovakia.
• 2000 - Alberto Fujimori se declara presidente eleito do Peru antes da data oficial, e seu opositor, Alejandro Toledo convoca uma marcha pacífica para anular as eleições.
• 2001 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2002 - Australian actress and singer Natalie Imbruglia became the new face of L'Oreal when she signed a deal worth £100,000 ($170,000) with the French cosmetics manufacturer.
• 2002 - Joseph Blatter is reelected President of FIFA
• 2002- Russian Oxana Fedorova is elected Miss Universe in San Juan - Puerto Rico.
• 2003 - David Jefferies dies (b. 1972). British motorcycle racer.
• 2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
• 2004 - Sam Dash dies (b. 1925). American Congressional counsel, Chief counsel to Senate Watergate Committee.
• 2004 - Archibald Cox, Jr. dies (b. 1912). Watergate special prosecutor.
• 2004 - Paris Saint-Germain beat 1-0 Chateauroux and conquer the French Football Cup in football.
• 2005 - France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.
• 2005 - Vitória de Setúbal win their 3rd Portuguese Cup in football beating Benfica 2-1/ O Vitória de Setúbal ganha pela 3ª. vez na sua história a Taça de Portugal ao derrotar o Benfica na final no Jamor, por 2-1.
• 2005 - Gorillaz scored their first UK No.1 album when ‘Demon Days’ went to the top of the charts.
• 2005 - George Rochberg dies (b. 1918). American composer.
• 2006 - Steve Mizerak dies (b. 1944). American pool player.
• 2006 - Jacques Bouchard dies (b. 1930). Quebec advertising executive.
• 29 Maio - Dia Internacional das Forças de Manutenção da Paz das Nações Unidas
• Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
• England: Oak Apple Day
• Nigeria: Democracy Day Nigeria returns to democratical form of governance after 16 years of military dictatorship.
• European Neighbours' Day