This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/29/1627 Anne ML of Orl‚ans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle) 
05/29/1630 Charles II, King of England (1660-85) 
05/29/1673 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council 
05/29/1716 Louis JM Daubenton, French zoologist 
05/29/1730 William Jackson, composer 
05/29/1731 Orazio Mei, composer 
05/29/1736 Patrick Henry, US, patriot 'Give me liberty or give me death' 
05/29/1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer 
05/29/1791 Pietro Romani, composer 
05/29/1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895

05/29/1810 Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer 
05/29/1810 Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875

05/29/1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army) 
05/29/1825 David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 
05/29/1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern) 
05/29/1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890

05/29/1837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU) 
05/29/1837 Luca Fumagalli, composer 
05/29/1843 Emile Pessard, composer 
05/29/1851 L‚on VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920) 
05/29/1852 Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer 
05/29/1860 Isaac [Manuel F] Alb‚niz, Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) 
05/29/1864 AH Borgesius, amateur astronomer 
05/29/1868 Fr‚deric baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker 
05/29/1874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold) 
05/29/1880 Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West) 
05/29/1881 Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer 
05/29/1883 William Beatton Moonie, composer 
05/29/1885 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)

05/29/1890 Francis de Bourguignon, composer 
05/29/1894 Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)

05/29/1894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel) 
05/29/1896 George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology) 
05/29/1897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta) 
05/29/1897 Ignace Lilien, composer 
05/29/1903 Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile

05/29/1904 Robert Knox, bacteriologist 
05/29/1905 Fela Sowande, composer 
05/29/1905 Gerrit Achterberg, poet (Sailing) 
05/29/1905 Jan (Johannes) Teulings, actor/director 
05/29/1905 Sebastian Shaw, London, actor (High Season, Spy in Black) 
05/29/1906 Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer 
05/29/1906 Terence Hanbury White, novelist 
05/29/1909 Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds) 
05/29/1911 James Marjoribanks, British ambassador 
05/29/1911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist 
05/29/1912 John BMR 'John' Hanlo, poet (Go to the Mosque) 
05/29/1913 Douglas Black, physician 
05/29/1913 Iris Adrian, LA Calif, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard) 
05/29/1915 David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales) 
05/29/1915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65) 
05/29/1915 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat 
05/29/1916 Lou van Raised, impresario 
05/29/1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963) 
05/29/1918 Isabel Dean, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom) 
05/29/1920 Robin Haydon, British diplomat 
05/29/1921 Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa) 
05/29/1921 George Terry, chief constable of Sussex England 
05/29/1921 James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die) 
05/29/1922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician 
05/29/1922 John Heerbecq, Church commissioner 
05/29/1923 Earl of Morley, Lord Lt of Devon 
05/29/1923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General 
05/29/1925 Anthony Grant, MP 
05/29/1925 Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products) 
05/29/1926 Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love) 
05/29/1927 Carl Toms, stage designer 
05/29/1927 Dick Hillenius, biologist/writer 
05/29/1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power) 
05/29/1928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds) 
05/29/1929 Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster 
05/29/1930 Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer 
05/29/1934 Heihatjir“ T“j“, Japanese admiral 
05/29/1935 Andr‚ P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season) 
05/29/1935 Denis J Worrall, South African DP-politician/leader 
05/29/1935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines 
05/29/1936 Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs) 
05/29/1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper 
05/29/1937 Peter Kolman, composer 
05/29/1939 Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71) 
05/29/1939 Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage) 
05/29/1941 Douglas Scott, mountaineer 
05/29/1942 Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels) 
05/29/1943 Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87) 
05/29/1943 E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976-  ) 
05/29/1943 Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times) 
05/29/1944 Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)

05/29/1944 Quentin Davies, (C) MP 
05/29/1945 Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland) 
05/29/1945 Martin Pipe, horse trainer 
05/29/1946 Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square) 
05/29/1948 Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital) 
05/29/1948 Linda Esther Gray, opera singer 
05/29/1948 Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster 
05/29/1949 Francis Rossi, rocker (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man) 
05/29/1949 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum) 
05/29/1950 Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff) 
05/29/1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturn

05/29/1953 Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)

05/29/1955 Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)

05/29/1955 John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan in 1981 
05/29/1955 Mike Porcaro, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa) 
05/29/1956 Greg R, rocker (Bad) 
05/29/1956 La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede) 
05/29/1956 Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman) 
05/29/1958 Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) [or 5/

05/29/1958 Ivar Sisniega, M‚xico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980) 
05/29/1959 Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country) 
05/29/1959 Tamayo Otsuki, actress (Mrs Yamagami-Davis Rules) 
05/29/1960 Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front) 
05/29/1961 Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough) 
05/29/1961 Todd Boonstra, Minneapolis Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)

05/29/1963 Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life) 
05/29/1963 Tracey E Bregman Recht, actress (Young & Restless, Concrete Jungle) 
05/29/1965 Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze) 
05/29/1973 Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county Calif, playmate (Oct, 1992) 
05/29/1977 Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge) 
05/29/1989 Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley 
05/29/1991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/29/1453 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49 
05/29/1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, dies 
05/29/1544 Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 

05/29/1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 
05/29/1680 Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73 
05/29/1691 Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61 
05/29/1750 Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70 
05/29/1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61 
05/29/1814 Jos‚phine, empress of France (1804-14), dies 
05/29/1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64 
05/29/1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies 
05/29/1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lam), dies 
05/29/1833 William Marshall, composer, dies at 84 
05/29/1862 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71 
05/29/1877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 
05/29/1883 Albrecht of Prussia/mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 
05/29/1883 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies 
05/29/1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 
05/29/1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies 
05/29/1899 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60 
05/29/1905 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55 
05/29/1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 
05/29/1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 

05/29/1923 Adolf Oberl„nder, German painter, dies 
05/29/1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies 
05/29/1934 Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 
05/29/1934 Heihatjir“ T“g“, Japanese admiral (Russ-Japanese war), dies 
05/29/1935 Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61 
05/29/1942 John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 
05/29/1943 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72 
05/29/1948 May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82 
05/29/1951 Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66 
05/29/1951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59 
05/29/1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91 
05/29/1951 Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85 
05/29/1955 Dani‰l G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78 
05/29/1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75

05/29/1961 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60 
05/29/1967 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69 
05/29/1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 
05/29/1971 Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83 
05/29/1973 Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies 
05/29/1977 Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66 
05/29/1979 Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86 
05/29/1982 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 
05/29/1985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor mat

05/29/1985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93 
05/29/1991 Coral Browne, actress (Auntie Mame, Ruling Class), dies at 77 
05/29/1992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37 
05/29/1992 Peter John 'Ollie' Halsall, guitarist, dies at 43 of a heart attack 
05/29/1992 Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies 
05/29/1993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies at 75 of pneumonia 
05/29/1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdams activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 
05/29/1994 Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 8

05/29/1994 Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/29/ 526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die 
05/29/ 757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
05/29/1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II 
05/29/1176 Battle of Legnano 
05/29/1415 Council of Konstanz 
05/29/1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire 
05/29/1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated 
05/29/1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont

05/29/1576 Spanish army under Mondrag¢n conquerors Zierik sea 
05/29/1630 Gov John Winthrop begins 'History of New England' 
05/29/1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tro

05/29/1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth 
05/29/1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France 
05/29/1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated 
05/29/1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony 
05/29/1787 'Virginia Plan' proposed 
05/29/1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifing Constitution 
05/29/1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte 
05/29/1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state 
05/29/1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln 
05/29/1861 Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves

05/29/1861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia 
05/29/1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 
05/29/1864 M‚xican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz 
05/29/1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect 
05/29/1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate 
05/29/1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia 
05/29/1900 Trademark 'Escalator' registered by Otis Elevator Co 
05/29/1902 Dutch State Mine law established 
05/29/1909 Frank 'Home Run' Baker's 1st career home run 
05/29/1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers 
05/29/1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500 
05/29/1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 di

05/29/1916 Official flag of president of US adopted 
05/29/1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 
05/29/1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington 
05/29/1922 Ecuador becomes independent 
05/29/1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 
05/29/1935 Hague local museum opens 
05/29/1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) 
05/29/1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart intalled as Reich commissar of Hague 
05/29/1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) 
05/29/1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US 
05/29/1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa 
05/29/1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands 
05/29/1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair 
05/29/1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends 
05/29/1953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest

05/29/1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married 
05/29/1954 Pope Pius X issues holy declaration 
05/29/1956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast 
05/29/1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators 
05/29/1957 Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns 
05/29/1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French govt 
05/29/1960 Everly Brothers 'Cathy's Clown' hits #1 
05/29/1962 Barbra Striesand appears on 'Garry Moore Show' 
05/29/1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium 
05/29/1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19 
05/29/1971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2127 Tanya 
05/29/1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif 
05/29/1977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time 
05/29/1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio 
05/29/1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 
05/29/1977 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one 
05/29/1978 1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years) 
05/29/1979 Radio's 1st rock network 'Source' premieres 
05/29/1980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban Leag pre

05/29/1980 J Turners 'Juliet & her Nurse' sold for $6,400,000 in NYC 
05/29/1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year 
05/29/1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m 
05/29/1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin) 
05/29/1985 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer 
05/29/1987 'Twilight Zone' director John Landis found innocent in death of acto

05/29/1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains 
05/29/1987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games 
05/29/1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakista

05/29/1989 Student protesters in China construct a replic of Statue of Liberty 
05/29/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49 
05/29/1990 NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson 
05/29/1992 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games 
05/29/1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany 
05/29/1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph) 
05/29/1994 Great comet-iceball seen above North sea 
05/29/1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election 
  
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