May 29

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 29. From 1900 until now. May 29 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917), Noel Gallagher (1967) and Melanie Brown (1975). Several movies were released around May 29 over the years, such as Batman Begins in 2005 directed by Christopher Nolan and The Asphalt Jungle in 1950 directed by John Huston.
But much more happened on May 29 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Nigeria: Democracy Day.
Saint Theodosia
Bah�'f Faith: Ascension of Bah�'u'llah.
United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day.
Venezuela: Tree Day.
Saint Erwin
Saint Maximinus of Trier
Argentina: Army Day.
Blessed Adhemar
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2019 Indian record label and film production company T-Series' most-subscribed YouTube channel reaches 100 million subscribers. (Times News Now)
2018 2018 Liège attack: Three people, including two police officers, are killed in Liège, Belgium, and four police officers are injured in a shooting. The gunman took a woman hostage, but was later killed by police. (BBC) (The Guardian)
2017 Battle of Marawi: Philippine forces continue to battle Maute militants for the city of Marawi. (CNN)
2016 Northern Mali conflict: Five United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an attack in central Mali. (NY Times) (Reuters)
2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Singapore says the Islamist group plans to take the conflict into Southeast Asia. (Straits Times)Dammam Mosque bomb blast:Islamic State claims responsibility for a car bomb in the parking lot of the Imam Hussain Mosque situated in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, during Friday prayers, with at least four people killed and dozens injured. Authorities state that the mosque itself was not hit. (The Express Tribune), (CNN)
2014 Rebels in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk say they are holding four missing Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitors and the observers may be released soon. (BBC) (AP via Yahoo! News)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: Drone attacks in Pakistan: Pakistani intelligence officials claim that a US drone attack has killed 5 alleged foreign militants, including Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander Wali-ur-Rehman, in the North Waziristan town of Miran Shah. (New York Times)
2012 Syrian uprising:
2011 NATO killing of civilians in Afghanistan:
2010 BP's effort fails to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is the worst in U.S. history, and is fouling marshland and beaches, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire. (''USA Today'')
2009 Heritage Auction Galleries conducts their Signature auction in Long Beach, California. A 1856-O Coronet double eagle, SP-63 PCGS, finest known sells for US$1,437,500.
2008 In the USA, Bear Stearns shareholders vote 84 percent in favor of selling the 85-year-old investment banking company to JPMorgan Chase & Company for US$9.32 a share, a total of US$1.5 billion. Shares in the company had traded at a record high of US$173 in January 2007.
2007 US President George W. Bush nominates former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank. (BBC)
2006 Sidoarjo mud flow - World's biggest mud volcano was created by the blowout of a natural gas well being drilled in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia. This has resulted in displacement of more than 11,000 persons from eight villages as well as damage to road and power infrastructures. Several (Twenty-five) factories were also abandoned.
2005 A London newspaper reports that Merrill Lynch, New York, is trying to persuade at least seventeen members of the corporate derivatives team of rival investment bank JP Morgan to defect. An anonymous source/headhunter quoted in the newspaper predicted that the seventeen will be working at Merrill Lynch by the end of the summer. (Reuters)
2004 In Washington, D.C., the National World War II Memorial is formally dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster: NASA officials release experimental findings proving that the insulation known to have hit the leading edge of ''Columbia''ampnowikiamp'amp/nowikiamps left wing could have created a gap in between protective heat panels.
2001 Barbara and Jenna Bush prosecuted for under-age drinking after posing as over 21 in a Texas drinking establishment.
1998 US President Bill Clinton signs Public Law 105-176 authorizing the US Mint to move certain emblems from the reverse to the obverse of coins, to leave more room for State quarter dollar designs.
1997 Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape / murder of Megan Kanka, 7
1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 (Endeavour 11), lands.
1994 Joseph & the Amazing closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 performances
1993 Texas Rangers' player Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Boston Red Sox, he gives up three runs on two hits and three walks, and he damages his arm.
1992 New York Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at three games.
1991 Les Miserables, opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland New Zealand
1990 An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56
1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government / disbands parliament in Pakistan
1987 Twilight Zone director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow.
1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling "odontalgia".
1985 Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
1984 Boston Red Sox retires number 9 (Ted Williams) and number 4 (Joe Cronin).
1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
1982 I Know What Boys Like, by The Waitresses hits #62
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1980 Billy Bishop Goes to War opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 performances
1978 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)
1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500
1976 One Piece At A Time by Johnny Cash hits #29
1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster.
1973 Columbia Records fires President Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1972 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
1971 Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61
1968 US Truth in Lending Act signed into law.
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational.
1965 A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
1962 Barbra Streisand appears on Garry Moore Show
1961 The US Department of Agriculture officially begins its Food Stamp program.
1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government.
1958 Real Madrid wins third Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, Belgium.
1957 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast.
1956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, Florida (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns.
1954 Kirk and Anne Douglas married
1953 Edmund P Hillary of New Zealand and Nepalese Sherpa Tensing Norkay are first to reach summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, the highest mountain on earth.
1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in the Netherlands
1945 US 1st Marine Division conquors Shuri-castle Okinawa, Japan.
1944 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy.
1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
1942 Bing Crosby records Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," the best-selling Christmas album in history.
1941 293 Disney animators, members of the Screen Cartoonists Guild, stage a strike of the Disney Studios in the USA. More than 1000 picketers appear in the first hour.
1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend andYpres in Belgium andLille in France
1939 Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1935 Hague local museum opens
1934 May 31 ampndash The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.
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.
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car.
1925 The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
1924 AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws.
1920 The Great Louth Flood kills 23.
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, Ceara, Brazil.
1918 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1916 Official flag of President of US adopted.
1915 Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.
1914 Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500
1909 In Shepard, Texas, USA a meteorite drops through a house.
1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania.
1903 May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1902 Dutch State Mine law forms.
1900 Trademark Escalator registered by Otis Elevator Company
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