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May 29
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MAY is:
- Electrical Safety Month
- Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Family Support Month - Support families with children during divorces, separations, and custody issues. Sponsor: Children Hurt In Legal Disputes.
- Freedom Shine Month - To rededicate America's Freedom Shrines. Sponsor: The National Exchange Clubs.
Fungal Infection Awareness Month - Fungus, yeasts, and molds can cause skin infections. Sponsor: Mycology Institute.
TODAY IS:
1630: King Charles II of England
1826: Ebenezer Butterick, inventor of the tissue paper
dress pattern
1860: Isaac Albeniz was born in Camprodon, in the
Catalonian part of Spain. Albeniz taught himself to play the piano with the wrong side of
his hands, backwards, while facing away from the keyboard. People paid to see it.
1874: English novelist G.K. Chesterton
1903: Entertainer Bob Hope (Leslie Townes)
1917: John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States
1922: Yannis Xenakis was born in Romania. Xenakis would
become a prominant non-tonal composer of the generation after Berg and Webern.
1938: Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent
1939: Race car driver Al Unser Senior
1942: Actor Kevin Conway
1944: Actor Helmut Berger
1945: Rock singer Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)
1947: Actor Anthony Geary
1950: Singer Rebbie Jackson
1952: Bobbie Sarnataro (Misch)
1953: Movie composer Danny Elfman
1956: Singer LaToya Jackson
1958: Actress Annette Bening
1959: Rock musician Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds)
1959: Actor Rupert Everett
1959: Actor Adrian Paul (TV series "Highlander")
1961: Singer Melissa Etheridge
1963: Actress Lisa Whelchel
1963: Actress Tracey Bregman
1967: Rock musician Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
1967: Singer Jayski McGowan (Quad City DJ's)
1969: Rock musician Chan Kinchla (Blues Traveler)
1975: Singer Melanie Brown (Spice Girls "Scary
Spice")
1975: Rapper Playa Poncho
1180: Coronation of Isabella of Hainaut as Queen of France
1218: The main body of the 5th Crusade arrives in Egypt
1239: 180 Cathars burned at Montwimer, France
1282: Glastonbury, England granted an annual Faire
1289: Coronation of Charles of Salerno as King of Sicily
1308: The Consistory of Poitiers
1328: Coronation of Philip IV as King of France
1418: Burgundian troops enter Paris (100 Yrs. War)
1453: Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this
signalled the end of the Middle Ages).
1453: Sack of Constantinople by the Turks under Sultan
Mahomet II
1521: Charles V and Pope Leo X ally against Francois I
1546: Murder of David Beaton, Archbishop and Cardinal of
Scotland
1593 Henry Barrow, a Puritan, executed for slandering
Queen Elizabeth
1606: Artist Caravaggio kills his tennis opponent in a
dispute over the game
1607: Death of St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi
1619: The Synod of Dordrecht affirms the Calvinist belief
in pre-destination
1660: The Glorious Revolution
1765: Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before
Virginia's House of Burgesses. Responding to a cry of "Treason!," Henry replied,
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790: Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to
ratify the United States Constitution.
1848: Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
1932: World War One veterans began arriving in Washington
to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1943: Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the
Riveter" appeared on the cover of "The Saturday Evening Post."
1953: Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay
of Nepal became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1972: The Boston composer Margaret Ruthven Lang died at
the age of 104.
1973: Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los
Angeles, defeating incumbent Sam Yorty.
1985: British soccer fans attacked Italian fans preceding
the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium. The resulting stadium stampede killed 38
people and injured 400.
1988: President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet
Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
1989: Chinese students in Tiananmen Square erected a
33-foot statue similar to the Statue of Liberty.
1989: Bowing to public demand, the Supreme Soviet allowed
Boris N. Yeltsin to take a seat in the standing legislature.
1990: Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the
Russian republic in the third round of balloting by the Russian parliament.
1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Canada
en route to his Washington summit with President Bush. Peru was struck by an earthquake
that claimed 56 lives.
1991: President Bush, addressing the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, unveiled a plan to curb "unnecessary and destabilizing weapons" in the Middle East.
1987: A jury in Los Angeles found "Twilight
Zone" movie director John Landis and four associates innocent of involuntary
manslaughter in the movie-set deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children.
1992: Undeclared presidential candidate Ross Perot held a
rally in Orlando, Florida, that was carried by two-way television satellite to five other
states.
1993: President Clinton tapped Republican David Gergen to
assume responsibility for White House communications and press operations.
1993: In Solingen, Germany, five Turks, including three
young girls, were killed in a firebombing blamed on right-wing extremists.
1994: Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former spokesman for the
Nation of Islam, was shot and wounded after delivering a speech at the University of
California, Riverside; a defrocked Nation of Islam minister, James Edward Bess, was
charged.
1994: Former East German leader Erich Honecker died in
Chile at age 81.
1995: The last three bodies entombed in the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City were recovered.
1995: Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in
both the House and the Senate, died in Skowhegan, Maine, at age 97.
1996: Israelis went to the polls for an election that
resulted in a narrow victory for opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Prime Minister
Shimon Peres.
1997: In closing arguments, Timothy McVeigh's attorney
urged jurors not to be swayed by sympathy for the Oklahoma City bombing victims, after a
prosecutor delivered a wrenching summation that portrayed McVeigh as a terrorist who
killed children in the warped belief he was a patriot.
1998: Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater died in
Paradise Valley, Arizona, at age 89.
1999: The space shuttle "Discovery" completed
the first-ever docking with the international space station.
1999: Olusegun Obasanjo became Nigeria's first civilian
president in 15 years, after a series of military regimes.
2000: President Clinton left Washington for a weeklong European tour.
2000: The space shuttle "Atlantis" returned from a repair mission to the international space station.
2000: Indonesia's state prosecutors placed former President Suharto under house arrest. (However, Suharto's trial on corruption charges was abandoned because of health concerns.)
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