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- 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 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
- 1167 Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano
- 1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa
- 1176 Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 1414 Council of Constance.
- 1415 Council of Konstanz
- 1453 Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
- 1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
- 1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont
- 1576 Spanish army under Mondragón conquerors Zierik sea
- 1630 Governor John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
- 1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
- 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.
- 1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
- 1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day first celebrated
- 1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
- 1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia
- 1727 Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1733 Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
- 1753 Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel" premieres
- 1765 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
- 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.
- 1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed
- 1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
- 1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
- 1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
- 1848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state to join the US
- 1848 Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- 1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"
- 1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
- 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
- 1864 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
- 1864 Méxican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
- 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.
- 1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
- 1884 The first steam cable trams start in highgate
- 1886 Putney Bridge opens in west London.
- 1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
- 1902 Dutch State Mine law forms
- 1903 May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
- 1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's first career homerun
- 1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
- 1911 The first Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 mph (120 kph)
- 1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
- 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.
- 1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
- 1915 Attack on Quinn's Post, Gallipoli
- 1916 Official flag of President of US adopted
- 1916 The US Presidential Flag is adopted
- 1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
- 1917 John F. Kennedy was born on may 29 1917
- 1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
- 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, Cear, Brazil.
- 1922 Ecuador becomes independent
- 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
- 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 Hague local museum opens
- 1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands
- 1940 HMS WAKEFUL, sunk off Nieuport, Belgium by 1 torpedo from German E-boat S-30.
- 1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
- 1942 Actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60
- 1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" greatest selling record to date
- 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 HMAS Perth damaged during Crete evacuation
- 1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
- 1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US
- 1945 US first Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
- 1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
- 1949 Visitor posting - Patricia Rohrbach is born - USA
- 1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
- 1950 St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
- 1950 Visitor posting - The great Bernard Beed was born! - USA
- 1951 The first North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
- 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
- 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 The first two individuals to reach the top of Everest were Tensing Norkay of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand reached the summit on 1953
- 1954 First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
- 1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
- 1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
- 1957 Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
- 1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
- 1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government
- 1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
- 1962 Buck O'Neil becomes the first black coach in major league baseball, accepting a job with the Chicago Cubs
- 1962 Visitor posting - Karen Mary Crossey born at 11 am Newcastle upon Tyne UK - posted from New Zealand
- 1962 Visitor posting - Akron Ohio Magician, Magic By Kel (Kel Hess) was born ! - USA
- 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.
- 1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19
- 1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
- 1968 Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament beating Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley after an added 30 minutes 1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
- 1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
- 1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes first crossing of Arctic Sea ice
- 1971 "Court Room" by Clarence Carter hits #61
- 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 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
- 1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles
- 1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
- 1976 "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29
- 1977 Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500
- 1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio
- 1977 Sue Press is first woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
- 1978 A 1 oz letter costs 15-cents to mail today, as the US post office raises the old rate by two cents
- 1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's first black PM
- 1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
- 1980 J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
- 1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
- 1982 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62
- 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madness - House Of Fun
- 1984 Visitor posting - Meko Lablu was born - USA
- 1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
- 1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years
- 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured by Liverpool fans at a European Cup match.
- 1985 Thirty-five spectators die when rioting erupts at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels
- 1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
- 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow
- 1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
- 1987 Visitor posting - Jacquelynn Boyd born - USA
- 1988 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
- 1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
- 1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
- 1990 An earthquake hits Peru, killing 56
- 1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president by the Russian parliament
- 1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I
- 1991 Visitor posting - Christopher Willem was born
- 1991 Visitor posting - Sam Fital was born
- 1991 Visitor posting - Navin Vijay Kateja born - India
- 1991 Visitor posting - Emmanuel Apetorgbor born - Ghana
- 1991 Visitor posting - Rebekah Musselman is born! - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kelly Ross Milner-Souders was born
- 1993 Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
- 1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
- 1994 Great comet-iceball seen above North Sea
- 1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
- 1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 (Endeavour 11), lands
- 1996 Visitor posting - Aaron Reid Spayth is born in Ocean Springs MS
- 1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
- 1997 Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7
- 1997 Scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
- 1998 Former Arizona senator Barry Goldwater dies at age 89
- 1998 Visitor posting - Mark Kelly was born in Tipperary. My Pet is called Rocky - Ireland
- 1998 Visitor posting - Christin Lucas was born may29,1998 in usa and on the west side of chicago - USA
- 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.
- 2004 The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
- 2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 2005 France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.
- 2007 Visitor posting - May 29 2007, Renojay P Negi alias Hanu was born to Narendran & Piyusha in Bangalore, just around the time, there was chaos over some community happening in Rajasthan
- 2009 Visitor posting - Wendy D Fischer meets Anurag J Bhatnagar in Auckland - New Zealand
- 2010 Actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper died - age 74 - USA
- 2010 Robbers stole $5.5 million from a southern Iraqi state bank after giving guards tea laced with a sleeping drug
- 2010 Visitor posting - My 1st Grandsons' Birthday! - USA
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