May 29

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

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:

Entertain the Troops Day - Celebrate the birthday of Bob Hope by taking a few military people out to lunch or dinner. Bob (Leslie Townes) was born in England on this day in 1903. 

Rhode Island Ratification Day - The 13th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

Wisconsin Admission Day - Wisconsin became the 30th state on this day in 1848.

Born on this Day

• 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                  
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 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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