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May 29, 1500 – Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias died at
the age of 48 (some sources say 49) in a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope.
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian
Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
May 29, 1677 – The Treaty of Middle Plantation established
peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
May 29, 1721 - South Carolina was formally incorporated as a
royal colony.
May 29, 1736 – American “Founding Father” and first Virginia
governor Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, British
America.
May 29, 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before
Virginia's House of Burgesses.
May 29, 1780 – During the American Revolutionary War, at the
Battle of Waxhaws near Lancaster, S.C., the British, under commander Lt. Col.
Banastre Tarleton, continued attacking after the Continentals laid down their
arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
May 29, 1781 - Captain John Barry, commander of the American
warship Alliance captured the HMS Atlanta and the HMS Trepassy.
May 29, 1790 – Rhode Island became the last of the original
United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th
U.S. state.
May 29, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette visited Braddock, Pa.
May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th U.S.
state.
May 29, 1862 - P.T. Beauregard began moving troops out of
Corinth, Miss. The evacuation was completed the next day.
May 29, 1862 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
at Whitesburg, Ala.
May 29, 1864 - Union troops reached Totopotomoy Creek, Va.
and were turned away by the Rebels.
May 29, 1864 – During the Civil War, an “action” occurred at
Moulton, Ala.
May 29, 1874 – English author G.K. Chesterton was born
Gilbert Keith Chesterton in London.
May 29, 1880 – German philosopher Oswald Spengler was born
in Blankenburg, Germany.
May 29, 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton placed his
first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
May 29, 1900 – Charles Pawson Atmore, General Passenger
Agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, passed away from apoplexy at
the age of 66 in Louisville, Ky. He was buried in the Cave Hill Cemetery in
Louisville.
May 29, 1903 – Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, near London, England. His family moved to the United States when he was four years old, and he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Hope died in 2003, two months after his 100th birthday.
May 29, 1906 – English author T.H. White was born Terence Hanbury White in Bombay, India, to English parents employed by the British civil service. He is best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, “The Once and Future King,” first published together in 1958.
May 29, 1909 – The Conecuh Record reported that about four
inches of rain fell in Evergreen, Ala. on this day and 1-1/2 inches fell the
day before.
May 29, 1911 – The government thermometer reached 100
degrees on this day in Evergreen, Ala.
May 29, 1911 – Ray Harroun won the first running of the
Indianapolis 500 took place.
May 29, 1914 – English explorer, hunter and author Henry
Seton-Karr passed died at the age of 61 in Canada’s greatest maritime disaster
when the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River when he was
returning to England from a hunting trip in British Columbia.
May 29, 1916 - The New York Giants won their 17th
consecutive road game.
May 29, 1916 - Author Virginia Pounds Brown was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
May 29, 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President
of the United States, was born in Brookline, Mass.
May 29, 1918 – Wm. T. Broughton and Zeilin Simpson, who both
died in World War I, were inducted into the Army and sent to Camp Sevier, S.C.
for training.
May 29, 1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized
baseball was a sport, and not subject to antitrust laws.
May 29, 1942 - A movie version of Alabama author Octavus Roy
Cohen's book “Gallant Lady” was released.
May 29, 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to
circumnavigate North America, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
May 29, 1951 - C.F. Blair became the first man to fly over
the North Pole in single engine plane.
May 29, 1952 – Country music legend Hank Williams and his
wife, Audrey, were divorced.
May 29, 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of
Nepal became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing
Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday. "A symmetrical, beautiful, snow cone
summit," Hillary said of the peak that is 29,028 feet above sea level.
May 29, 1954 - The first meeting of the annual Bilderberg
group, a secretive, invitation-only gathering with the elite from such fields
as politics, commerce, and banking, was held.
May 29, 1955 – New Hope Baptist Church at Natchez, Ala. held
its 100th anniversary homecoming.
May 29, 1955 - John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to
assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was born in Ardmore, Okla.
May 29, 1959 – Repton High School was scheduled to hold its
graduation exercises at 8 p.m. in Repton, Ala. Starr Smith of Montgomery was to
deliver the graduation address, and Principal E.H. Penny was to deliver the
diplomas.
May 29, 1962 – First baseman Fred Whitfield, a native of
Vandiver, Ala., made his first Major League start, two days after his Major
League debut. He went 1-for-4 for the St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh’s
Forbes Field with his first hit coming in the fourth inning, a RBI single off
Al McBean that scored Red Schoendienst.
May 29, 1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black
coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
May 29, 1965 – Repton High School was scheduled to hold
graduation exercises on this Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium
in Repton, Ala. Dorothy Waller was the valedictorian, and Willene Powell was
the salutatorian. Twenty-three seniors were expected to receive diplomas.
May 29, 1965 - Dick Allen of the Philadelphia Phillies hit a
529-foot home run out of Connie Mack Stadium.
May 29, 1967 - Noel Gallagher, the lead guitarist, co-lead
vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis, was born in
Longsight, Manchester, England.
May 29, 1967 - Economist and “Freakonomics” co-author Steven Levitt was born in St. Paul,
Minn.
May 29, 1972 – Sparta Academy held its first ever graduation
exercises on this day at 8 p.m. at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen, Ala.
Members of the class included Forrest Brantley, Robert Carleton, Terry Chapman,
Martha Gaines, Gary Gibson, Donnie Griggers, Beth Harper (salutatorian), Kitty
Horton, Deborah Josey, Crawford King (valedictorian), Mary Ann Mack, Charlotte
McCreary, Mike McKenzie, Joey Nix, Carey Stinson, Larry Tranum, Mike Turner,
Shelia Ward and Dwight Watson.
May 29, 1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon agreed to turn
over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
May 29, 1981 – The Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Ala. were
designated a National Historic Landmark.
May 29, 1984 - The Boston Red Sox retired the No. 9 jersey
of Ted Williams and the No. 4 jersey of Joe Cronin.
May 29, 1986 - The first issue of "The Frisco
Citian" newspaper was published in Frisco City, Ala.
May 29, 1987 – In Monroeville, Ala., Alabama Bureau of
Investigations agent Simon Benson conducted a tape-recorded interview in the
county courthouse with Karen Kelly, whom he suspected of lying about the Vickie
Lynn Pittman murder.
May 29, 1990 - Rickey Henderson stole his 893rd base,
breaking Ty Cobb's record.
May 29, 1992 - Tim Raines of the Chicago White Sox stole his
700th career base.
May 29, 2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin
Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes
included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224
people.
May 29, 2003 – High Ground Burial in Baldwin County, Ala.
and the Dulaney Cemetery in Wilcox County, Ala. were added to the Alabama
Historic Cemetery Register.
May 29, 2004 – The National World War II Memorial was
dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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