Today in History - May 29
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Saint's day of Theodosia, martyred in 729 in
Constantinople.
(Ot, 1993, p.1)
526 May 29,
Antioch, Turkey, was struck by an earthquake and about 250,000 died.
[see May 20]
(AM, 11/00, p.69)(SC, 5/29/02)
757 May 29, St. Paul I (d.767)
began his reign as Catholic Pope.
(PTA, 1980, p.188)(SC, 5/29/02)
1138 May 29, Anti-Pope Victor IV
(Gregorio) overthrew self for Innocentius II.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1176 May 29, Lombard League
defeated Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1453 May 29, Constantinople fell
to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire. The fall of the eastern
Roman Empire, Byzantium, to the Ottoman Turks was led by Mehmed II.
Emperor Constantine XI Dragases (49), the 95th ruler to sit on the
throne of Constantine, was killed. The city of Constantinople fell from
Christian rule and was renamed Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia was turned
into a mosque. Spice prices soared in Europe. Nicolo Barbaro wrote his
"Diary of the Siege of Constantinople." Manuel Chrysophes, court
musician to Constantine XI, wrote a threnody for the fall of
Constantinople. In 2005 Roger Crowley authored “1453 The Holy War for
Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West.”
(NH, 9/96, p.22)(Sky, 4/97, p.53)(SFC, 7/27/98,
p.A8)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R49)(ON, 10/00, p.12)(Ot, 1993, p.6)(WSJ, 1/2/02,
p.A15)(SSFC, 8/14/05, p.F4)
1453 May 29, French banker Jacques
Coeurs had his possessions confiscated.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1500 May 29, Bartholomeu Diaz de
Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowned.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1544 May 29, Jacobus Latomus
[Jasques Masson] (~68), Belgian inquisitor, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1546 May 29, Cardinal Beaton,
English archbishop of St. Andrews, was murdered.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1576 May 29, Spanish army under
Mondragón conquered the Zierik sea.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1593 May 29, John Penry English
congressionalist, was executed.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1627 May 29, Anne of
Orléans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1629 May 29, Arnold Baert (~74)
Flemish lawyer, member of Great Council, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1630 May 29, Charles Stuart
(d.1685), later Charles II, king of England (1660 to 1685), was born.
He was the son of Charles I. Charles II was restored to the English
throne after the Puritan Commonwealth. Charles made a deal with George
Monck, a general of the New Model Army, and with the old parliamentary
foes of his father. The British experiment with republicanism came to
an end with the restoration of Charles II.
(V.D.-H.K.p.218)(WUD, 1994, p.249)(SFC, 5/25/96,
p.A12)(WSJ, 5/6/97, p.A20)(HN, 5/29/98)(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A36)
1630 May 29, Gov. John Winthrop
began his "History of New England."
(SC, 5/29/02)
1652 May 29, English Admiral
Robert Blake drove out the Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1660 May 29, Charles II, who had
fled to France, was restored to the English throne after the
Puritan Commonwealth. Charles made a deal with George Monck, a general
of the New Model Army, and with the old parliamentary foes of his
father. The British experiment with republicanism came to an end with
the restoration of Charles II.
(V.D.-H.K.p.218)(WSJ, 5/6/97, p.A20)(HN,
5/29/98)(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A36)
1660 May 29, Gyorgy Rakosi II
prince of Transylvania, died in battle.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1660 May 29, Peter Scriverius
(44), lawyer, historian, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1673 May 29, Cornelis van
Bijnkershoek, lawyer, president of High Council, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1680 May 29, Abraham Megerle (73),
composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1691 May 29, Cornelis Tromp (61),
Admiral-General, son of Maarten Tromp, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1692 May 29, Royal Hospital
Founders Day was 1st celebrated.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1692 May 29, Battle at La Hogue:
An English & Dutch fleet beat France.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1716 May 29, Louis J.M. Daubenton,
French zoologist, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1721 May 29, South Carolina was
formally incorporated as a royal colony.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1730 May 29, William Jackson,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1731 May 29, Orazio Mei composer,
was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1736 May 29, Patrick Henry
(d.1799), American Colonial patriot, orator and governor of Virginia,
was born. He was a slave-owner and justified the fact by saying: “I am
driven along by the general inconvenience of living here without them.”
He later said "Give me liberty or give me death."
(SFC,12/897, p.A27)(HN, 5/29/01)
1741 May 29, Johann Gottfried
Krebs, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1750 May 29, Giuseppe Porsile
(70), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1753 May 29, Joseph Haydn’s
"Krumme Teufel" premiered.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1765 May 29, Patrick Henry
denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. It was
during this speech that Henry supposedly responded to cries of
"Treason!" by declaring, "If this be treason, make the most of it,"
according to an 1817 biography of Henry by William Wirt, who wrote that
he had confirmed the quote with former President Thomas Jefferson.
(AP, 5/29/08)
1787 May 29, The "Virginia Plan"
was proposed.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1788 May 29, Jacques Aliamet (61),
French etcher, engraver, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1790 May 29, Rhode Island became
the last of the 13 original colonies to ratify the United States
Constitution. They held out for an amendment securing religious
freedom. The state was largely founded by Baptists fleeing persecution
in Massachusetts.
(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A19)(AP, 5/29/97)(HN, 5/29/98)
1791 May 29, Pietro Romani,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1810 May 29, Erasmus Darwin Keyes
(d.1895), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1810 May 29, Solomon Meredith
(d,1875), Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1814 May 29, Empress Josephine
(1804-14), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, died. She maintained grand
roses at Malmaison, where there were an estimated 250 varieties.
(TGR, 1995, p.2)(SC, 5/29/02)
1815 May 29, Cornelis de Gijselaar
(64), politician, patriot, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1824 May 29, Cadmus Marcellus
Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1825 May 29, David Bell Birney
(d.1864), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1826 May 29, Ebenezer Butterick,
inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1827 May 29, Reuben Lindsay Walker
(d.1890), Brigadier General (Confederate Army), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1829 May 29, Humphrey Davy (84),
scientist, inventor (Miner's safety lamp), died at age 50. In 1963 Anne
Treneer authored “The Mercurial Chemist: A Life of Sir Humphrey Davy.”
(ON, 12/01, p.7)(SC, 5/29/02)
1833 May 29, William Marshall
(84), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1837 May 29, Luca Fumagalli,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1837 May 29, Alexander F. de
Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister, party leader (CHU), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1840 May 29, Hans Makart, Austrian
painter (Plague in Florenz), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1843 May 29, Emile Pessard,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1846 May 29, Albert Gyorgy, earl
Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1848 May 29, Wisconsin became the
30th state of the union.
(AP, 5/29/97)(HN, 5/29/98)
1848 May 29, The Californian
newspaper complained that everybody in the state was under the spell of
gold fever and announced suspension of publication because the staff
was heading out to participate. The Californian and the California Star
were based in SF.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, DB p.40)(SFEC, 6/21/98, Z1 p.1)(PI,
8/8/98, p.5)
1848 May 29, Battle at Curtazone:
Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1849 May 29, A patent for lifting
vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln said: "You can fool
some of the people all of the time, & some of the people some of
time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"
(HN, 5/29/98)(SC, 5/29/02)
1852 May 29, Jindrich z Albestu
Kaan, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1860 May 29, Isaac [Manuel F]
Albéniz, Spanish pianist, composer (Iberia), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1861 May 29, Dorothea Dix offered
to help set up hospitals for Union Army.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1862 May 29, Confederate General
P.T. Beauregard retreated to Tupelo, Mississippi. He had taken command
of the Trans-Mississippi area after the death of General Albert Sidney
Johnson.
(HN, 5/29/99)
1862 May 29, Franciszek Wincenty
Mirecki (71), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1864 May 29, A.H. Borgesius, Dutch
amateur astronomer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1864 May 29, Mexican Emperor
Maximilian arrived at Vera Cruz.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1865 May 29, Amnesty for the
Confederates was granted.
(HFA, '96, p.30)
1866 May 29, US Gen'l. Winfield
Scott (79) died at West Point, New York. Union General Winfield Scott
was the originator of the military strategy known as the "Anaconda
Plan." Scott's plan for defeating the Confederacy featured a naval
blockade of the South designed to slowly "strangle" the fledgling
country. The Union did impose such a blockade, but by 1861 Scott was
considered too old to lead the federal armies and he retired that
November. Although a Virginian born on June 13, 1786, Scott-popularly
called "Old Fuss and Feathers"-remained loyal to the Union and its army
he commanded when war broke out.
(HNQ,
2/19/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott)
1868 May 29, Frederic baron
d'Erlanger, French composer, banker, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1869 May 29, Philippe Vandermaelen
(73), Flemish cartographer, publisher, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1874 May 29, G.K. Chesterton
(d.1936), English poet-essayist, was born. "Every man is dangerous who
only cares for one thing."
(AP, 8/4/99)(HN, 5/29/01)
1874 May 29, The present
constitution of Switzerland took effect.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1877 May 29, John Lothrop Motley
(63), (History of United Netherlands), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1880 May 29, Oswald Spengler,
German philosopher of history, was born. He maintained that every
culture grows, matures and decays. He wrote the book "The Decline of
the West."
(HN, 5/29/99)
1881 May 29, Frederik Septimus
Kelly, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1883 May 29, William Beatton
Moonie, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1883 May 29, Albrecht of Prussia
(73), mistress of John van Rossum, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1883 May 29, WFLC Marianne
princess of Orange-Nassau, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1884 May 29, 1st steam cable trams
started in Highgate.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1885 May 29, Erwin F.
Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1885 May 29, Alfred von Meissner
(63), Austrian physician, writer (Ziska), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1889 May 29, August Strindberg's
"Hemsoborna" premiered in Copenhagen.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1890 May 29, Francis de
Bourguignon, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1892 May 29, Alfonsina Storni,
Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1892 May 29, Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA
Noeri], Persian founder of Baha’i faith, died at 74.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1894 May 29, Bea Lillie, comic
actress, was born.
(HN, 5/29/01)
1894 May 29, Josef von Sternberg,
film director (Blue Angel), was born.
(HN, 5/29/01)
1896 May 29, George L. Funke,
botanist (Flower Physiology), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1897 May 29, Erich Wolfgang
Korngold, movie composer (Violanta), was born in Brno, Austria.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1897 May 29, Ignace Lilien,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1899 May 29, Frantz Jehin-Prume
(60), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1900 May 29, Trademark "Escalator"
was registered by Otis Elevator Co.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1902 May 29, Dutch State Mine law
formed.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1903 May 29, Bob Hope (d.2003), US
comedian, was born as Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England.
(SFC, 5/28/97, p.D5)(AP, 5/29/05)
1904 May 29, Robert Knox,
bacteriologist, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1905 May 29, Fela Sowande,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1905 May 29, Jan [Johannes]
Teulings, Dutch actor, director (That Joyous Eve), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1905 May 29, There was a pogrom
against Jewish community in Brisk, Lithuania.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1905 May 29, Leon Francis Victor
Caron (55), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1906 May 29, Hans Joachim
Schaeuble, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1906 May 29, Terence Hanbury White
(T.H. White), novelist (The Sword in the Stone, England Have My Bones),
was born in Bombay, India.
(HN, 5/29/01)(SC, 5/29/02)
1907 May 29, Desmond Shawe-Taylor,
critic, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1909 May 29, Neil R[onald] Jones,
US sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1910 May 29, Pope's encyclical on
Editae Saepe was against church reformers.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1910 May 29, Mili Alexeyevich
Balakirev (73), Russian composer (Islamej), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1911 May 29, The first running of
the Indianapolis 500. Ray Harroun won at 74.59 mph (120 kph). [see May
30]
(HN, 5/29/98)(SC, 5/29/02)
1911 May 29, In SF the
amusement park known as "The Chutes," located on Fillmore Street,
burned down. The fire originated in the Chutes restaurant and destroyed
13 stores in the Chutes building. All the animals in the “Happy Family
House” as well as the donkeys and ponies in the Chutes stable were
killed. There would not be another amusement park in San Francisco for
over 20 years, until Chutes-at-the-Beach opened at Ocean Beach in the
mid-1920s, changing its name to Playland-at-the-Beach by 1928 and
lasting until 1972. The shoot-the-chutes attraction was torn down in
January 1950.
(AJSF, Vol. 14. No. 2, Winter, 2003)(SSFC, 5/29/11,
DB p.46)
1911 May 29, William Schwenck
Gilbert (74), writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1912 May 29, John Hanlo, Dutch
poet (Go to the Mosque), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1912 May 29, Curtis Publishing
fired 15 young women for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch
break.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1913 May 29, Iris Adrian, actress
(Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard), was born in Los Angeles, CA.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1913 May 29, The premier of the
ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky
and Vaslav Nijinsky in Paris caused rioting in the theater. The
orchestra was led by Pierre Monteux and décor was by Nikolai
Roerich.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.B9)(HN, 5/29/01)(WSJ, 12/8/04,
p.D12)
1914 May 29, The Canadian ship
Empress of Ireland sank while enroute to Quebec City to Liverpool after
colliding with the Norwegian coal freighter Storstad. 1,012 (1,024) of
the 1,500 passengers and crew were killed. The site of the tragedy was
proclaimed a protected historic and archeological site by Quebec in
1999.
(SFC, 4/23/99, p.D3)(SC, 5/29/02)
1915 May 29, Igor Buketoff,
conductor (Iceland Symphony 1964-65), was born in Hartford, CT.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1916 May 29, Official flag of
president of United States was adopted.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1916 May 29, U.S. forces invaded
the Dominican Republic and stayed until 1924. [see May 5&15, 1916]
(HN, 5/29/98)
1917 May 29, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), was born
at 83 Beals St. in Brookline, Mass. He was assassinated in his first
term.
(AP, 5/29/97)(HN, 5/29/99)(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.C12)
1918 May 29, Herb Shriner,
humorist, TV host (Herb Shriner Show), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1918 May 29, Isabel Dean, actress
(5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom), was born in England.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1919 May 29, A solar eclipse
occurred that was photographed by two British expeditions, one in
Africa and the other in Sobral, Brazil. Arthur Eddington, British
astronomer, confirmed Einstein’s prediction of the deflection of light
from Principe, a Portuguese island off the Atlantic coast of Africa. In
1980 Harry Colling and Trevor Pinch published "The Golem," an account
of the expedition. The play “Rose Tattoo” by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier)
Williams was originally titled “The Eclipse of May 29, 1919.”
(SFC, 10/12/96,
p.E3)(www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/Edd.on1919.html)
1919 May 29, Charles Strite
patented a pop-up toaster. [see May 27]
(SC, 5/29/02)
1921 May 29, James Clifton, actor
(Live & Let Die), was born in Spokane, WA.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1921 May 29, Clifton James, actor
(Buster & Billie, David & Lisa), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1922 May 29, The US Supreme Court
ruled that organized baseball is a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1922 May 29, Ecuador became
independent.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1922 May 29, Iannis Xenakis, Greek
mathematician, architect and composer, was born in Romania. In 2004
James Harley authored “Xenakis: His Life in Music.”
(SSFC, 7/25/04, p.M4)
1922 May 29, Jevgeni B. Vachtangov
(39), Armenian-Russian actor, director, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1923 May 29, Adolf Oberländer
German painter, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1924 May 29, Pierre-Paul Cambon
French diplomat (Madrid/London), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1926 May 29, Charles Denner, actor
(And Now My Love), was born in Tarnow, Poland.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1927 May 29, Dick Hillenius, Dutch
biologist, writer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1928 May 29, Fritz von Opel
reached 200 kph in an experimental rocket car. [see Sep 30, 1929]
(SC, 5/29/02)
1932 May 29, Paul Erlich,
environmental scientist, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1932 May 29, World War I veterans
began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t
scheduled to receive for another 13 years. 17,000 veterans marched on
Washington demanding cash for their bonus certificates. They were led
by Walter Waters, a former sergeant from Portland, Ore.
(TMC, 1994, p.1932)(AP, 5/29/97)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.B1)
1934 May 29, Eugenie Besserer
(65), actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1934 May 29, Heihachiro Tojo,
Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, André P.
Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Denis J. Worrall,
South African politician/leader (DP), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Hague local museum
opened.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Josef Suk (61) Czech
violinist composer, died at 61.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1936 May 29, Arlene McQuade,
actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1937 May 29, Peter Kolman,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1939 May 29, Nanette Newman,
writer, actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1940 May 29, Germans captured
Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1940 May 29, Arthur Seyss-Inquart
was installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague, Netherlands.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1941 May 29, Roy Crewsdon, rocker
(Freddie & The Dreamers), was born in Manchester.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1942 May 29, Kevin Conway, actor
(Flash Point, Cage of Angels), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1942 May 29, The movie "Yankee
Doodle Dandy," starring James Cagney, premiered at a war-bonds benefit
in New York.
(AP, 5/29/99)
1942 May 29, Bing Crosby, the Ken
Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded Irving
Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
(AP, 5/29/98)
1942 May 29, Actor John Barrymore
died in Hollywood at age 60.
(HN, 5/29/00)(AP, 5/29/01)
1942 May 29, The German Army
completed its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.
The Red Army had lost over 250,000 men including many prisoners.
(HN, 5/29/99)
1943 May 29, Norman Rockwell’s
portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of “The Saturday
Evening Post.” Rockwell’s model was Mary Keefe (19) of Arlington,
Vermont. In 2002 the painting sold at auction for $4,959,500.
(AP, 5/29/97)(AH, 10/02, p.10)
1943 May 29, Churchill, Marshall
and Eisenhower met in the Confederacy of Algiers.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1943 May 29, Meat and cheese began
to be rationed in US.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1943 May 29, Hermann Hans Wetzler
(72), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1944 May 29, Helmut Berger, actor
(Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1944 May 29, British troops
occupied Aprilia, Italy.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1945 May 29, US 1st Marine
division conquered Shuri-castle in Okinawa.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1945 May 29, Dutch police arrested
and imprisoned Hans van Meegeren (1889-1947) for collaborating with the
enemy. His name had been traced to a sale made during the second world
war of what was then believed to be an authentic Vermeer to Nazi
Field-Marshal Hermann Goering. On July 12, in order to prove his
innocence, Meegeren revealed that he had forged the painting.
(WSJ, 10/14/06, p.P10)(ON, 12/07, p.12)
1946 May 29, Robin Johnson,
actress (Times Square), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1946 May 29, KVP won the
Provincial National elections in Netherlands.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1948 May 29, Michael Berkley,
composer, broadcaster, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1948 May 29, Anthony Geary, actor
(Luke/Bill-General Hospital), was born in Coalville, UT.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1948 May 29, Linda Esther Gray,
opera singer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1948 May 29, May Whitty (82),
actress (Gaslight, Mrs. Miniver, Suspicion), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1949 May 29, Gary Brooker, rock
keyboardist (Procol Harum), was born in Essex, England.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1949 May 29, Francis Rossi,
guitarist, vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down, Picture of a Matchstick
Man), was born in London, England.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1949 May 29, Candid Camera, TV
comedy Variety, moved to NBC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1950 May 29, Rebbie [Maureen]
Jackson, singer (R U Tuff Enuff), was born in Gary, IN.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1951 May 29, C. F. Blair became
the 1st man to fly over the North Pole flight in single engine plane.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1951 May 29, Fanny Brice (59),
Ziegfeld Girl (Baby Snooks Show), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1951 May 29, Josef Bohuslav
Foerster (91), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1951 May 29, Robert Kahn (85),
composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1951 May 29, Dimitrios Levidis
(66), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1952 May 29, Louise Cooper, sci-fi
author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne), was born in UK.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1952 May 29, A 2nd Round
Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ended.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1953 May 29, Danny Elfman,
composer (Simpson Show Theme), was born in Los Angeles, CA.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1953 May 29, Rick Henderson,
singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), was born in Beaumont, TX.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1953 May 29, Mount Everest was
conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay, a Sherpa
of Nepal, became the first climbers to reach the summit. The expedition
was led by John Hunt (d.1998 at 88). Tenzing Norgay later authored the
autobiography “Man of Everest.”
(AP, 5/29/97)(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T5)(HN, 5/29/98)(SFEC,
11/8/98, p.A23)(WSJ, 6/4/01, p.A20)
1954 May 29, Pope Pius XII, born
as Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Pacelli (1876-1958), canonized Pope Pius X,
born as Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (1835-1914). It was the first
canonization of a Pope since 1712.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_canonized_by_Pope_Pius_XII)
1955 May 29, Jerry Dengler, singer
(Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), was born in Colorado Springs, CO.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1955 May 29, John Hinckley Jr.,
attempted assassin of President Reagan, was born.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1955 May 29, Mike Porcaro, rock
bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1955 May 29, Jordan government of
Tewfik Abdul Huda resigned.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 May 29, Larry Blackmon,
rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 May 29, LaToya Yvette
Jackson, singer (posed in Playboy, Millipede), was born in Gary, IN.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 May 29, Greg R, rocker (Bad),
was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 May 29, Arnold
Schönberg's "Modern Psalm" premiered.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 May 29, Hermann Abendroth
(73) German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1957 May 29, British-born
Hollywood director James Whale ("Frankenstein") was found dead in his
swimming pool, a suicide; he was 67.
(AP, 5/29/07)
1957 May 29, Algerian rebels
killed 336 collaborators.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1957 May 29, Laos Government of
prince Suvanna Phuma resigned.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1957 May 29, George Bacovia
[Vasiliu] Romanian poet, composer (Plumb), died at 75.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1958 May 29, Annette Bening,
actress (American Beauty, Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont), was born in
Topeka, KS.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1958 May 29, Juan Ramón
Jimenez (76), Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1959 May 29, Rupert Everett, actor
(My Best Friend's Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Next Best Thing),
was born in Norfolk, England.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1959 May 29, Mel Gaynor, rock
drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front), was born in Glasgow,
Scotland.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1959 May 29, Tamayo Otsuki,
actress (Mrs. Yamagami-Davis Rules), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1959 May 29, Charles de Gaulle
formed a French Government.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1960 May 29, Adrian Paul, actor
(Dance to Win, Highlander), was born in London, England.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1960 May 29, Everly Brothers
"Cathy's Clown" hit #1.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1961 May 29, Melissa Etheridge, US
singer, songwriter, guitarist (Never Enough), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1961 May 29, David Palmer, heavy
metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1961 May 29, Uuno Kalervo Klami
(60), composer, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1963 May 29, Lisa Whelchel,
actress (Blair-Facts of Life, Mickey Mouse Club), was born in Fort
Worth, TX.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1967 May 29, Pope Paul VI named 27
new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later
became Pope John Paul II.
(SSFC, 4/3/05, p.A13)
1967 May 29, Geronimo Baqueiro
Foster (b.1898), Mexican musicologist and composer, died.
(www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsb.htm)
1968 May 29, Pres. Johnson signed
the Truth in Lending Act into law.
(http://altlaw.org/v1/cases/552046)
1968 May 29, UN resolved sanctions
on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1969 May 29, Britain's
Trans-Arctic expedition made the 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice. Roy
Koerner (1932-2008), more commonly known as Fritz, was one of the four
members of Sir Wally Herbert’s British Transarctic Expedition which, on
April 6, 1969, stood at the North Pole.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1929131.ece)
1970 May 29, John Gunther
(b.1901), American journalist and author, died.
(www.hwwilson.com/Print/14gunther.html)
1970 May 29, Eva Hesse, artist
(34), died in NYC. She is one of 3 artists covered by Anne Middleton
Wagner in “Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism in the Art of Hesse,
Krasner and O’Keefe.”
(HFA, '96, p.42)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.T-7)(SSFC, 2/3/02,
p.D3)
1970 May 29, In Sri Lanka Sirimavo
Bandaranaike began serving as the country’s 9th prime minister for a
2nd term and continued to 1977. His first term as the 7th PM of Ceylon
was from 1960-1965.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike)
1971 May 29, Max Trapp (b.1887),
German composer, died in Berlin (other sources say he died May 31).
(www.musicorb.com/search.php?day=All&month=All&year=1971&e=1&b=1&d=1&start=0)
1973 May 29, Tom Bradley was
elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Sam
Yorty.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1973 May 29, Columbia Records
fired president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds.
Davis went on to start Arista records.
(http://tinyurl.com/5959o4)
1973 May 29, Eric Applewhite
(b.1896), entertainer, died in Miami. He portrayed the inspector in the
film "Dial M for Murder.
(http://tinyurl.com/5phzym)(http://tinyurl.com/5q59jo)
1974 May 29, President Nixon
agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1974 May 29, Northern Ireland was
brought under direct rule from Westminster.
(www.uhb.fr/langues/cei/nicons74.htm)
1975 May 29, Melanie Janine Brown
"Scary Spice", British vocalist (Spice Girls), was born in Leeds.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Brown)
1977 May 29, Danny Gerard, TV and
film actor, was born in Mount Vernon, NY.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0313944/)
1977 May 29, Janet Guthrie
(b.1938) became the 1st woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Her
autobiography, "Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle," was published
in 2005.
(www.janetguthrie.com/biofr.htm)(www.nascar.com/2002/kyn/women/02/02/Guthrie/)
1977 May 29, The NBC 24 hour News
& Information Service ended on radio.
(http://pdxradio.net/feedback/messages/995/2265.html?1096520101)
1977 May 29, USSR performed a
nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_8.htm)
1977 May 29, Goddard Lieberson
(b.1911), composer and president of Columbia Records (1956-1971), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Lieberson)
1978 May 29, The US Postal Service
issued the first alphabet stamp, the A stamp, when the first-class rate
went from 13 to 15 cents, after being 13¢ for 3 years. The series
ended with the H stamp in 1999 with rates up to 33 cents.
(SFC, 4/20/00,
p.A7)(http://alphabetilately.com/G.html)(www.akdart.com/postrate.html)
1978 May 29, The USSR performed a
nuclear test at Semipalatinsk in Eastern Kazakhstan.
(www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_8.htm)
1979 May 29, US District Judge
John Wood (b.1916) was assassinated in San Antonio as he was about to
preside in a drug conspiracy trial against Jimmy Chagra. Joe Chagra
(1946-1996), Jimmy’s brother, conspired in the killing and served as a
prosecution witness against Charles V. Harrelson. Joe served 6 1/2 of
10 years. Charles Harrelson (d.2007) was convicted of the murder.
Prosecutors said a drug dealer facing trial had hired Harrelson to kill
the judge, who was known for giving maximum sentences. In 1985
Harrelson’s son Woody began an acting career with a role in “Cheers.”
(SFC, 12/11/96,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Wood,_Jr.)(SFC, 3/21/07,
p.B7)
1979 May 29, Mary Pickford
(b.1892), silent film star, died a wealthy recluse. Her life is
documented in the 1997 book: "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood"
by Eileen Whitfield. She was married for 42 years to Buddy Rogers
(d.1999).
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pickford/timeline/timeline2.html)(SFC, 4/22/99,
p.D2)
1979 May 29, Bishop Abel Muzorewa
was sworn in as the first black PM of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia - the name
given to the country in the brief period before full independence.
(www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_May_29.php)
1980 May 29, In NYC "Billy Bishop
Goes to War" opened at the Morosco Theater for 12 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3957)
1980 May 29, J. Turners 1836
painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC.
(www.abebooks.fr/search/sortby/3/kn/+A+Picture+history+british+painting)
1980 May 29, Larry Bird beat out
Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1998/bird/timeline/index.html)
1980 May 29, In Fort Wayne,
Indiana, there was an attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr.,
National Urban League president. in 1996 an acquitted sniper told a
newspaper that he did shoot and wound Vernon Jordan, then president of
the Urban League, outside an Indiana hotel in 1980.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Jordan,_Jr.)(WSJ, 4/9/96,
p.A-1)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A12)
1982 May 29, Romy Schneider
(b.1938), Austrian-born actress, died in Paris of cardiac arrest. Her
many films included “The Cardinal” (1963).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002769/)
1984 May 29, Eric Morecambe
(b.1926), British comedian (Morecambe & Wise), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Morecambe)
1985 May 29, At Heysel Stadium
rioting erupted between British and Italian spectators at the European
Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium. 39 people were killed when
rioting broke out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans
collapsed. This led to a 5-year ban on English clubs playing on the
Continent.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A28)(AP, 5/29/08)
1985 May 29, Madge West (b.1892)
American TV actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), died.
(http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0922212/)
1987 May 29, 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.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1988 May 29, 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.
(AP, 5/29/98)
1988 May 29, Pakistan Pres. Zia
ul-Haq fired government and disbanded the parliament.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1989 May 29, Student protesters in
Tiananmen Square China constructed a replica of the Statue of Liberty.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1989 May 29, Bowing to public
demand, the Supreme Soviet allowed Boris N. Yeltsin to take a seat in
the standing legislature.
(AP, 5/29/99)
1990 May 29, Dow Jones average
hits a record 2,870.49.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1990 May 29, Boris N. Yeltsin was
elected president of the Russian republic in the third round of
balloting by the Russian parliament. This gave him a base from which to
attack Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
(AP, 5/29/97)(HN, 5/29/99)
1990 May 29, Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Canada en route to his
Washington summit with President Bush.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1990 May 29, Northern Peru was
struck by an earthquake that claimed as many as 200 lives.
(www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64C3R8?OpenDocument)
1991 May 29, "Les Miserables"
opened at ACTEA Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1991 May 29, 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.
(AP, 5/29/01)
1991 May 29, Coral Browne (77)
Australian actress, (Dreamchild, Ruling Class), died of cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0114982/)
1992 May 29, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot held a rally in Orlando, Fla., that
was carried by two-way television satellite to five other states.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1992 May 29, Bill Beyers (37),
actor (Capitol), died of AIDS.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0079964/)
1992 May 29, Peter John "Ollie"
Halsall (43), English born guitarist, died of a heart attack in Spain.
(www.philbrodieband.com/muso_ollie_halsall.htm)
1992 May 29, Pippa Steele (44),
German born actress (Vampire Lovers), died of cancer in London.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0824448/)
1993 May 29, President Clinton
tapped Republican David Gergen to assume responsibility for White House
communications and press operations.
(AP, 5/29/98)
1993 May 29, In Solingen, Germany,
five Turks, including three young girls, were killed in a firebombing
blamed on right-wing extremists. Five Turks died in an arson attack
that was blamed on neo-Nazis and led to large demonstrations. The
events were documented in essays by Jane Kramer collected in 1996 in
“The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany.”
(SFEC, 10/20/96, BR, p.5)(AP, 5/29/98)
1994 May 29, "Joseph & the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" closed at Minskoff Theater in NYC after
223 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4581)
1994 May 29, "Picnic" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4603)
1994 May 29, 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. Bess was later convicted of attempted murder and assault and
sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 5/29/04)
1994 May 29, A great comet iceball
was seen above the North Sea.
(www.imo.net/bib/auth_n.html)
1994 May 29, Hungary's Socialist
Party won parliamentary election. Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn
was elected to lead the Socialist-Free Democrat coalition. The
coalition slashed the communist welfare state and solidified
free-market democracy.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A10)(SC, 5/29/02)
1994 May 29, Jose Bohr (b.1901),
actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), died.
(http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=7064&mod=bio)
1994 May 29, Joseph Janni
(b.1916), Italian-born producer, died in London, UK.
(www.a2zpeople.com/j/jo/joseph+janni.asp)
1994 May 29, Oliver "Bops Junior"
Jackson (b.1933), drummer, died.
(http://nfo.net/calendar/apr28.htm)
1994 May 29, Harry Levin (b.1912),
literary Scholar, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Levin)
1994 May 29, Erich Honecker (81),
former East German leader (1971-89), died of liver cancer in Chile.
(AP, 5/29/99) (SFC, 8/26/97, p.A17)
1995 May 29, The last three bodies
entombed in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City were
recovered.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1995 May 29, Margaret Chase Smith
(97), the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate (R-ME),
died in Skowhegan, Maine.
(AP, 5/29/00)(SC, 5/29/02)
1996 May 29, The United Farm
Workers signed a contract with a major lettuce producer. A minimum of
6.62/hr will be paid rising to 7.23/hr in 5 years.
(SFC, 5/30/96, p.C1)
1996 May 29, The Endeavor space
shuttle landed after a 10-day mission. It went be overhauled for a
space-station assembly mission in 1997.
(SFC, 5/30/96, p.A5)
1996 May 29, Jeremy Sinden (45),
actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1996 May 29, A 15-year-old
Honduran girl spoke of sweatshop conditions under South Korean owners
in the production of clothing for the Kathie Lee Gifford line for
Wal-Mart. The National Labor Committee accused marketers such as Eddie
Bauer, J. Crew, and K-Mart of selling clothes made by underage Honduran
workers.
(SFC, 5/30/96, p.A5)
1996 May 29, Chechen rebel
commander Aslan Maskhadov sent a radio message to his forces to refrain
from attacks on Russian soldiers. A power sharing plan defines Chechnya
as a sovereign state within the Russian Federation, giving it control
over its finances and resources.
(SFC, 5/30/96, p.A8)
1996 May 29, Israelis voted for
the first time to choose a prime minister directly. The Nat’l.
Religious Party went from 6 to 10 seats in parliament, the Shas, a
strictly Orthodox party of Sephardic Jews, also went from 6 to 10
seats. The United Torah Judaism, an ardently Orthodox party of
Ashkenazic Jews retained its 4 seats. Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud party
leader, won the Prime Ministership over Prime Minister Shimon Peres in
a very close election.
(WSJ, 5/24/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/30/96, p.A8)(AP,
5/29/01)
1996 May 29, Hundreds of Tutsis
crossed into Rwanda fleeing the fighting in Zaire. Thousands of
displaced Tutsis are behind them in the Masisi and Rutshuru regions of
northeastern Zaire.
(SFC, 5/30/96, p.A9)
1996 May 29, In Papua New Guinea
the 500 Bahinemo people and the several hundred Bitara people were
faced with the decision over whether to allow logging in their 2,300
sq. mls of primeval woodland.
(SFC, 5/29/96, p.A8)
1996 May 29, The army chief of Sri
Lanka offered a general amnesty to more than 20,000 deserters and
announced plans to recruit another 10,000 soldiers. He wants to bolster
the army of 100,000 to finish the 12-year war with Tamil separatists.
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A1)
1997 May 29, 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.
(AP, 5/29/98)
1997 May 29, George Fenneman (77),
announcer (You Bet Your Life), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1997 May 29, In Algeria armed men
attacked a home in Djebabra and slit the throats of 6 men and 2 women.
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.A16)
1997 May 29, In Angola troops
overran the northern part of the country held by the former Unita
movement.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A1)
1997 May 29, In China authorities
executed 8 Muslim separatists in Xinjiang.
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.16)
1997 May 29, In Peru the
congressional majority of Pres. Fujimori fired 3 constitutional court
judges who had ruled against his bid for a 3rd consecutive term.
(SFC, 6/17/97, p.D1)
1997 May 29, Spanish scientists
announced a new human species in 780,000 year old fossil.
(www.anomalous-images.com/news/news049.html)
1998 May 29, It was reported that
54% of adult Americans are overweight and that 22% are obese.
(WSJ, 5/29/98, p.A1)
1998 May 29, It was reported that
a salmonella strain impervious to 5 antibiotics was rampant in Britain.
Chickens were reported sold in Minnesota that were contaminated with
campylobacter resistant to a powerful antibiotic. The high use of
antibiotics by farmers was adding to the problem of an increasing
number of drug-resistant germs.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.A8)
1998 May 29, In Colorado three men
shot and killed police officer Dale Claxton of Cortez when he stopped
them in a suspected stolen water truck.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A6)
1998 May 29, Barry Goldwater
(b.1909), former Senator from Arizona, died in Paradise Valley, Ariz..
In 2008 John W. Dean and Barry Goldwater Jr. authored “Pure Goldwater.”
(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/99)(WSJ, 5/2/08, p.A13)
1998 May 29, Two activists were
killed by the Nigerian Mobile Police on Chevron’s Parabe oil production
platform. The police were flown in on Chevron helicopters following 4
days of protests. In 2009 a federal judge upheld a San Francisco jury’s
verdict that cleared Chevron of wrongdoing in the shootings.
(SFC, 11/19/98, p.A8,9)(SFC, 3/5/09, p.C1)
1998 May 29, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic imposed large licensing fees on radio and TV stations and
denied permits to dozens of opposition broadcasters. Control of the
autonomous state universities was also undertaken.
(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A3)
1998 May 29, In Kosovo a Serb
policeman was killed and another wounded in the Decani region. A 3-day
Serb offensive began that left over 60 ethnic Albanians dead in Vranoc
and other villages in the area.
(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A11)(SFC, 7/16/98, p.A10)
1998 May 29, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin ordered a crackdown on tax delinquents. He fired Alexander
Pochinok, head of the tax service, and replaced him with former finance
minister Boris Fyodorov (40).
(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A10)
1998 May 29, From Sierra Leone it
was reported that defeated rebels were conducting a campaign of terror
in the countryside and that hundreds have been killed since the rebels
were driven from the cities in March.
(WSJ, 5/29/98, p.A1)
1999 May 29, It was reported that
the US Defense Dept. had ordered 9,000 Purple Hearts from Graco
Industries near Houston to "replenish its supply."
(SFC, 5/29/99, p.A12)
1999 May 29, The space shuttle
“Discovery” completed the first-ever docking with the international
space station.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1999 May 29, In Austria a multiple
vehicle collision set off a 15-hour fire in the Tauern Tunnel and at
least 12 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 May 29, In Nigeria Pres.
Olusegun Obasanjo became the first civilian president in 15 years,
ending a string of military regimes. He suspended contracts awarded by
his predecessor. In the oil region 56 people were killed in ethnic
unrest.
(WSJ, 5/6/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 5/30/99, p.A17)(WSJ,
6/1/99, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/00)
1999 May 29, In Slovakia Rudolf
Schuster was elected president in a runoff election against Vladimir
Meciar, the authoritarian former prime minister.
(WSJ, 6/1/99, p.A1)
2000 May 29, President Clinton
left Washington for a weeklong European tour.
(AP, 5/29/01)
2000 May 29, The US State Dept.
called the vote in Peru invalid.
(SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)
2000 May 29, The space shuttle
Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral in the early morning dark after a
successful overhaul of the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 5/30/00, p.A3)
2000 May 29, In Eritrea Ethiopian
planes launched air raids on a military airstrip near Asmara as their
foreign ministers prepared for talks in Algeria.
(SFC, 5/30/00, p.A1)
2000 May 29, In Fiji Commodore
Frank Bainimarama seized power to restore order following the coup.
Pres. Mara stepped down from power and retired to Lau.
(SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)(Econ, 4/24/04, p.88)
2000 May 29, In Indonesia former
pres. Suharto was put under house arrest pending a trial for corruption
and abuse of power. However, Suharto’s trial on corruption charges was
abandoned because of health concerns. In North Moluku at least 44
people were killed in an armed raid on a mostly Christian village on
Halmahera Island. The attackers were believed to be members of the
Lasker Jihad from a neighboring island.
(SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A11)(AP,
5/29/01)
2000 May 29-31, North Korean
leader Kim Jong Il visited China and met with Pres. Jiang Zemin and the
ruling Communist Party’s inner circle. He received promises of free
food and other material assistance.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A16)
2000 May 29, In Zimbabwe Thadeus
Rukuni, a candidate for the Movement for Democratic Change, was beaten
to death in Bikita.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A18)
2001 May 29, Pres. Bush met with
Gov. Davis in Los Angeles. Bush ruled out federal price controls and
Davis said he would sue to impose controls.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, The Supreme Court
ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in
tournaments.
(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, Four followers of
Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to
murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in
Africa that killed 224 people.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, Intel unveiled its
new 64-bit processor, the Itanium, previously known under the code name
Merced. A 2nd generation of the chip, code-named McKinley, was planned
for 2002. The project was a joint venture with HP.
(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)(Econ, 2/28/04, p.63)
2001 May 29, The US National
Marine Fisheries Service declared the California coast white abalone an
endangered species.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A3)
2001 May 29, In Israel and the
West Bank 3 Palestinians and 3 Israelis were killed.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 29, In Macedonia key
leaders agreed to set aside a dispute over a joint declaration signed
by ethnic Albanian politicians and a guerrilla leader that did not
require an immediate stop to fighting.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A10)
2001 May 29, In Mexico City Jesus
Ignacio Carrola Gutierrez, a former director of the judicial police,
was found slain execution-style with his 2 brothers. Carrola had
resigned in 1997 under pressure of alleged links to drug traffickers
and human rights abuses by police under his command.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A12)
2001 May 29, Pakistan accepted
India’s offer for peace talks on Kashmir.
(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 29, The Ukraine
Parliament confirmed Anatoly Kinakh as prime minister.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A12)
2002 May 29, Pres. Bush moved to
prevent oil drilling off the Florida coast and in the Everglades.
Payments of $115 and $120 million would be made to buy back
drilling rights. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said it was good public policy.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A3)
2002 May 29, FBI Director Robert
Mueller acknowledged that the bureau did not pursue “red flags” in the
weeks before Sep 11, and suggested for the first time that
investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more
diligent about pursuing leads. A reorganization plan for the bureau was
announced with a focus on terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/03)
2002 May 29, The US offered a
reward for as much as $5 million for the capture of Abu Sayyaf leaders
in the Philippines.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A10)
2002 May 29, In Britain PM Tony
Blair appointed Paul Boateng (50), as the nation's 1st black Cabinet
Minister and named him deputy treasury secretary.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A12)
2002 May 29, The EU upgraded
Russia to the status of a full market economy.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A8)
2002 May 29, In India 4 bomb
blasts in and around Ahmadabad in Gujarat state injured at least 39
people.
(SFC, 5/29/02, p.A16)(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A12)
2002 May 29, In Kashmir
cross-border shelling killed at least 23 people and wounded 17.
(WSJ, 5/30/02, p.A1)
2002 May 29, Libya denied that it
had any relationship to the deal made by lawyers to pay $2.7 billion to
the families of Pan Am Flight 103 victims. The move was seen as a ploy
and a settlement was expected soon.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A10)
2002 May 29, Oxana Fedorova of
Russia was crowned as the 51st Miss Universe.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A2)(AP, 5/29/07)
2002 May 29, In Zambia Pres. Levy
Mwanawasa declared a national food crises with 4 million people facing
starvation due to drought.
(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A1)
2003 May 29, President Bush, in a
wide-ranging interview with reporters at the White House, repeated his
defense of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and hinted that relations with
France remained scarred over its opposition to the war.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2003 May 29, AOL Time Warner and
Microsoft announced a settlement in their battle over Internet
browsers, with the software giant paying AOL $750 million.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2003 May 29, Scientists reported
the discovery of a "master gene" in stem cells.
(SFC, 5/30/03, p.A5)
2003 May 29, The BBC, aired a
radio piece by journalist Andrew Gilligan quoting an anonymous official
accusing the government of inflating claims about Iraqi weapons. David
Kelly was later identified as the source and committed suicide Jul 17.
(AP, 7/23/03)(Econ, 1/31/04, p.54)
2003 May 29, US forces in Iraq
numbered some 200,000. An extended stay was expected.
(SFC, 5/29/03, p.A12)
2003 May 29, Tropical Storm Linfa
moved northeast of the Philippines toward Japan on Thursday after
leaving at least 25 people dead and more than 8,000 displaced following
five days of heavy rains and flooding.
(AP, 5/29/03)
2004 May 29, A new WW II memorial
was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington DC.
(SFC, 5/28/04, p.A1)
2004 May 29, Archibald Cox (92),
fired by Pres. Nixon for his efforts in the Watergate investigation,
died in Maine.
(AP, 5/30/04)
2004 May 29, Samuel Dash (79),
chief Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, died in Washington
DC.
(SSFC, 5/30/04, p.B7)
2004 May 29, In southern
Afghanistan 4 members of the American special forces were killed in
action in Zabul province, a stronghold of Taliban militants.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2004 May 29, Taliban guerrillas
riding in a fleet of vehicles shot up a government office in southern
Afghanistan, killing four Afghan soldiers.
(AP, 5/30/04)
2004 May 29, In Brazil Inmates
rioted at the Benfica detention center in a northern Rio district,
seizing guns and taking guards hostage after 14 inmates broke out in a
mass escape.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2004 May 29, Unidentified gunmen
shot and killed a U.N. military observer in eastern Congo and a second
was reported missing. About 10,800 U.N. troops are deployed in Congo,
monitoring the peace deal and helping the government regain control of
the country. Elections are scheduled for June 2005.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2004 May 29, In Iran the
Gov. Masoud Emami of Qazvin province was killed along with 7 others
when their helicopter crashed while surveying earthquake damage.
(SSFC, 5/30/04, p.A14)
2004 May 29, A Palestinian gunman
killed an Israeli officer after opening fire on Israeli troops
conducting a routine raid in the West Bank Balata refugee camp. An
Israeli man was stabbed in the back by a Palestinian in Jerusalem's Old
City.
(AP, 5/29/04)
2004 May 29, In Saudi Arabia
gunmen shot down security guards and entered 2 office complexes in
Khobar searching for and murdering anyone looking western.
(Econ, 6/5/04, p.41)
2005 May 29, Dan Wheldon won the
Indianapolis 500 as Danica Patrick's electrifying run fell short. She
finished fourth.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2005 May 29, In Bellefontaine,
Ohio, Scott Moody (18) who was about to graduate from high school is
believed to have fatally shot his grandparents, mother and two family
friends before killing himself.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 May 29, George Rochberg (86),
composer, died. He was America’s 1st evangelist for serialism, a way of
composing invented by Arnold Schonberg in the 1920s.
(WSJ, 6/16/05, p.D8)
2005 May 29, In southern
Afghanistan's Kandahar province gunmen shot and killed Mullah Abdul
Fayaz, the top Muslim leader.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 May 29, In Brazil almost 2
million gay men, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters, many in
lavish Carnival costumes and waving rainbow-colored flags, paraded in
Sao Paulo to celebrate gay pride and call for the legalization of civil
unions between homosexuals.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 May 29, French voters
rejected the EU's first constitution, dealing a potentially fatal blow
to the charter. In 2007 it was repackaged as the Lisbon treaty.
(AP, 5/30/05)(Econ, 10/10/09, p.28)
2005 May 29, In Iraq suicide
bombings and ambushes killed at least 30 people, including a British
soldier. Iraqi forces swept through Baghdad, erecting checkpoints and
searching vehicles as they launched the largest offensive of its kind
since Saddam Hussein's ouster.
(AP, 5/29/05)(SFC, 5/30/05, p.A1)
2005 May 29, In Iraq Maj. Gen.
Ahmed al-Barazanchi, the director of internal affairs of Kirkuk
province and a former police chief, was shot several times. He died the
next day.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 May 29, The body of Raja
Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi, governor of Anbar province, was found killed.
Insurgents had abducted him May 10.
(AP, 5/31/05)
2005 May 29, Israel's Cabinet
approved the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 May 29, Thousands of South
Korean students rallying against the US military's five-decade presence
clashed with police after trying to enter the American base, and at
least 12 people were injured and more than 20 were arrested.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 May 29, Lebanon held
parliamentary elections. Candidates loyal to the son of assassinated
politician Rafik Hariri swept the 1st stage of the first Lebanese
election largely free of Syrian domination, claiming all 19
parliamentary seats in Beirut.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 May 29, In southwestern Nepal
Maoist rebels shot dead a policewoman and her four-year-old son.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 May 29, The World Association
of Newspapers' (WAN), meeting in Seoul, awarded veteran Sudanese
journalist Mahgoub Mohamed Salih its 2005 press freedom award.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 May 29, In Taipei thousands
of men in black gangster garb took part in the funeral procession of a
reputed Taiwan mob godfather, nicknamed "Mosquito" and "The Great
Arbitrator." Hsu Hai-ching died this month at 93 after a long illness.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 May 29, In Venezuela tens of
thousands of marched in Caracas demanding the US extradite a Cuban
militant wanted for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban
airliner.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2006 May 29, Pres. Bush in a
Memorial Day message said the US must continue the war on terror in the
names of those who have given their lives in the cause. He also signed
into a law a bill limiting protests at military funerals.
(WSJ, 5/30/06, p.A1)
2006 May 29, The U.S. military
said the number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has
grown from three to 75.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, In Washington DC
Jordan's King Abdullah II met with President Bush and urged him to
pursue Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, In Afghanistan 5
Canadian soldiers were hurt and up to six militants killed in a
gunbattle west of Kandahar, while US-led coalition aircraft bombed
Taliban militants meeting in remote Helmand province, reportedly
killing dozens.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, A deadly traffic
accident involving US troops left 5 people dead and sparked the worst
rioting in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban regime,
with hundreds of protesters looting shops and shouting "Death to
America!" Some 25 people were killed and 107 injured in the riots. The
unrest started after three US Humvee vehicles coming into the city from
the outskirts rammed into a rush-hour traffic jam, hitting several
civilian cars. On July 20 the US military said it was paying $112,000
in compensation to victims of the traffic accident involving an
American cargo truck.
(AP, 5/29/06)(Econ, 7/8/06, p.23)(AP, 7/21/06)
2006 May 29, A Belarus court
sentenced Sergei Lyashkevich, an opposition campaign official, to five
months in prison after convicting him of training and paying people to
riot. Lyashkevich had directed opposition candidate Alexander
Milinkevich's campaign office in Shchuchin.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, Burundi's only
hold-out rebel group began talks with the government in an effort to
end the central African country's 12-year civil war.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, In Canada hundreds of
thousands of frustrated commuters were forced to find alternate ways to
work as subway stations across Toronto were shut down and buses and
streetcars halted due to a labor dispute. Toronto transit workers were
ordered back to work, ending a wildcat strike that stranded some
700,000 commuters and filled the streets of Canada's biggest city with
extra cars, bicycles and pedestrians as commuters scrambled to get to
work.
(AP, 5/29/06)(Reuters, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, China and India
pledged to deepen military exchanges during a visit by Indian Defense
Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the latest sign of warming relations between
the neighbors and one-time foes.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, French Agriculture
Minister Dominique Bussereau ruled out changes to the EU's system of
farm subsidies, saying he would prefer that the Doha trade talks fail
instead.
(AFP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD), the US maker of computer chips, said it planned to
invest 2.5 billion dollars (1.96 billion euros) in expanding capacity
at its factory in Dresden, eastern Germany, over the next three years.
(AFP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, A group of prominent
Indians called for national talks between Maoist rebels and the
government, while also demanding an end to a controversial anti-rebel
campaign in the worst-affected state of Chhattisgarh.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, In Indonesia a
boiling mud flow began from a volcano in Sidoarjo, east Java. By 2007
it covered 1.6 square miles destroying 4 villages and 25 factories and
forced 16,000 people to leave their homes. The mud flow was triggered
by the drilling operations for gas of Lapindo Brantas, an energy
company whose major shareholder was the family-owned Bakrie Group.
Aburizal Bakrie, head of economics in Yudhoyono’s cabinet, called it a
natural disaster and tried to sell Lapindo to obscure offshore buyers.
The sale was blocked and Bakrie was moved to the post of coordinating
minister of public welfare. In Feb 2007 engineers began dropping large
cement balls into the crater in an attempt to stem the flow. In 2008
international scientists said they are almost certain that the mud
volcano was caused by faulty drilling of a gas exploration well.
(WSJ, 2/28/07, p.A1)(Econ, 12/1/07, p.58)(AP,
6/10/08)
2006 May 29, In Iraq 8 bombs
killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens in the worst wave of
violence to hit Baghdad in days. A car bomb exploded in Baghdad,
killing two British members of a CBS News crew, a US soldier and an
Iraqi interpreter, and seriously injuring CBS correspondent Kimberly
Dozier. The Iraqi government captured Ahmed Hussein Dabash Samir
al-Batawi, a key terror suspect who allegedly confessed to hundreds of
beheadings. Samir al-Batawi was arrested by a terrorist combat unit in
Baghdad.
(AP, 5/29/06)(AP, 5/30/07)
2006 May 29, Israel announced it
would fully participate in a NATO naval exercise for the first time,
bolstering defense ties with the Western military alliance in the face
of arch-foe Iran's nuclear program.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, In southwestern
Nigeria a truck hauling iron rods lost control and crashed into several
roadside buses as passengers were boarding, killing at least 30 people.
(AP, 5/30/06)
2006 May 29, In northwestern
Pakistan suspected Islamic militants fired at a car carrying Meherdil
Khan Shamankhel, a pro-government tribal elder, killing him and
wounding two other people in the vehicle.
(AP, 5/30/06)
2006 May 29, In Serbia an
explosion ripped through a chemical plant near Belgrade, killing at
least four people and injuring three. Police sealed off the Prva Iskra
chemical factory, which produces explosives as well as toxic
hydrofluoric acid, used as a component for household detergents.
(AP, 5/29/06)
2006 May 29, Sri Lanka's Tamil
Tiger rebels agreed to more talks to shore up the implementation of a
collapsing ceasefire as the EU moved to ban them as a terrorist group.
(AFP, 5/29/06)
2007 May 29, President Bush
ordered new US economic sanctions to pressure Sudan's government to
halt the bloodshed in Darfur.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, President Bush's
environmental adviser said the US rejects the EU's all-encompassing
target on reduction of carbon emissions. The US and Australia ruled out
a regional carbon trading scheme before the meeting officially opened
in the northern city of Darwin, saying it was too early to impose
uniform targets on APEC nations. APEC members already account for 60%
of global energy demand and their needs are expected to almost double
by 2030. Fidel Castro lambasted President Bush for opposing the EU's
goal for an agreement on carbon emissions at next week's Group of Eight
summit.
(AFP, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, The US officials
confirmed that immigration visa fees would rise by an average of 66%
effective July 30.
(SFC, 5/30/07, p.A3)
2007 May 29, Andrew Speaker (31),
a lawyer from Atlanta with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis,
ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to
the first US government-ordered quarantine since 1963. Italian
officials said they were tracing the movements of Speaker, who
honeymooned in Rome for two days despite being told to turn himself in
to health authorities.
(AP, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/30/07)(Reuters, 6/1/07)
2007 May 29, Cindy Sheehan, the
soldier's mother who had galvanized an anti-war movement with her
monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, announced her
"resignation" as the public face of the movement.
(AP, 5/29/08)
2007 May 29, At Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, two children died in an early morning fire at a soldier's
housing unit on the Army post. In 2008 Army wife Billi Jo Smallwood
(35) was accused of setting her apartment on fire in a botched attempt
to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived
and her two children died instead.
(www.topix.com/forum/city/louisville-tn/TLELGAU2D0M0I5V1T)(AP, 11/22/08)
2007 May 29, In Hudson Oaks,
Texas, Gilberta Estrada (25) was found hanged by suicide along with 3
of her 4 children. An 9-month-old infant survived her noose.
(SFC, 5/30/07, p.A8)
2007 May 29, Bangladeshi
authorities revived two graft cases against former premier Sheikh
Hasina Wajed. Security forces arrested 4 former government ministers, 2
mayors and a top businessman as the military-backed emergency
government stepped up an anti-corruption drive.
(AFP, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, Brazilian Senate
President Renan Calheiros said that he won't resign over accusations he
accepted payoffs from one of the country's top construction companies.
(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, Zheng Xiaoyu, China's
former top drug regulator, was sentenced to death in an unusually harsh
punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines,
including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, China said it will
not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia
failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming.
(AFP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, The roof of a newly
built house in Wulanji, a northern Chinese village in Inner Mongolia,
collapsed during a celebration for its completion, killing 16 people
and injuring another 29.
(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, Egypt's parliament
voted to expel an MP and nephew of late President Anwar Sadat, after he
was declared bankrupt.
(AFP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Ethiopia began
counting its population, a daunting task in a country where asking
personal questions is considered socially taboo.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, European and Asian
foreign ministers meeting in Germany agreed to set a 2009 deadline to
complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to
limit greenhouse gases.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, In India clashes
between police and thousands of people demanding government aid in the
northern state of Rajasthan left at least 13 people dead.
(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, In Indonesia a
teenage girl died of bird flu, taking the death toll in the nation
worst hit by the virus to 79.
(AFP, 6/1/07)
2007 May 29, Iran's judiciary
spokesman said US academic Haleh Esfandiari and two other
Iranian-Americans have been "formally charged" with endangering
national security and espionage.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, In Iraq 5 British men
were pulled out of a Finance Ministry office by about 40 heavily armed
men in police uniforms in broad daylight and driven in a convoy of 19
four-wheel-drive vehicles toward Sadr City. Management consultant Peter
Moore and four of his security guards were seized. In 2008 a Shiite
militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping said a hostage
named Jason had committed suicide on May 25. Two other British
hostages, Jason Swindlehurst (38) and Jason Creswell (39) were returned
to England in June, 2009. (Moore was released on Dec 30, 2009.) Two car
bombers hit neighborhoods on opposite sides of the Tigris River,
killing 40 people and wounding more than 100 others. 3 German computer
consultants were kidnapped from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office in
Baghdad. Gunmen in Samarra set up fake checkpoints on the outskirts of
the city and abducted more than 40 people, most of them soldiers,
police officers and members of two tribes that had banded together
against local insurgents. Col. Hamid Ibrahim al-Jazaa, a Sunni police
chief praised by US forces for clearing his city of insurgents, was
arrested following an investigation into alleged murder, corruption and
crimes against the Iraqi people. Al-Jazaa, his brother and 14
bodyguards were taken into custody in the city of Hit. One US soldier
died of wounds from a roadside bomb attack northwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/30/07)(AP, 5/31/07)(AP,
7/20/08)(AP, 7/29/09)(AP, 12/30/09)
2007 May 29, In Japan an executive
allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the
suicide of the agriculture minister leaped to his death.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Lebanon’s army
clashed with al-Qaida-linked Islamic fighters in a Palestinian refugee
camp, breaking a weeklong truce.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Libya said it will
sign a 900 million dollar exploration deal with energy giant BP, which
plans to return after a 33 year absence. British PM Tony Blair arrived
in Libya and welcomed improved relations as oil companies from both
countries signed a major deal.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, In Nicaragua US
embassy confirmed that an American woman, Lemon E. Groves (49), had
died of injuries suffered when she was attacked in her home in the
Nicaraguan city of Grenada last week.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Umaru Yar'Adua (56),
a former governor hand-picked by departing President Olusegun Obasanjo,
was sworn in as president in Nigeria’s first transfer of power from one
elected government to another. Gun battles between rival gangs in
Nigeria's southern oil-producing state of Rivers erupted in violence
linked to a change of governor, killing 15 people.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Russia pledged to
write off an additional $500 million of African debt. Russia
test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable
of carrying multiple independent warheads. President Vladimir Putin
warned that US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn
the region into a "powder keg."
(Reuters, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/29/07)(AP, 5/30/07)
2007 May 29, In Sri Lanka troops
and police stepped up security in Colombo after two bomb blasts by
suspected Tiger rebels within 24 hours killed 11 people.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Sweden said it plans
to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2020, bettering the EU's
proposal to cut emissions by at least 20%.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, Senior Thai judges
began deliberating on whether to dissolve the kingdom's two main
political parties as thousands of troops were put on alert amid
security fears ahead of the court verdict.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2007 May 29, State media said
Zimbabwe will put 40,000 more people on life saving anti-retroviral
drugs by the end of the year despite an economic crisis.
(AP, 5/29/07)
2008 May 29, Police in San Jose,
Ca., said some 80 people had $45,000 drained from their bank accounts
after thieves pulled debit card data from an Arco station at 5755
Camden Ave. A covert card-reading device allowed thieves to collect
debit card and pin data. Similar thefts had also been reported in Los
Altos and southern California.
(SFC, 5/30/08, p.B12)
2008 May 29, Harvey Korman (1927),
comedian, died in LA. He had won four Emmys for his outrageously funny
contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving
politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles."
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 29, In Afghanistan a
suicide car bomber hit a convoy of international soldiers in Kabul,
killing three Afghans caught in the blast. A joint operation by Afghan
and NATO forces in Farah killed 30 Taliban fighters. One policeman and
two Afghan soldiers were also killed.
(AP, 5/29/08)
2008 May 29, Argentina's
government set a ceiling on variable grain export taxes, but farmers
said the change wasn't enough to make them lift a weeklong suspension
of beef and grain exports.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 29, Tomislav Petrovic, a
former Bosnian soldier, shot dead six people and wounded another in a
rampage in a Tuzla before being detained as he fired on a parked car.
(AFP, 5/29/08)
2008 May 29, In Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, Canada, Chief Albert Mercredi spoke at the “national day
of action” and denounced the premiers of the 4 western provinces for
allowing mining development to pollute aboriginal air, land and water.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.50)
2008 May 29, Chile's national
police chief and 10 other people were killed when the aging Panamanian
government helicopter they were riding in crashed into a three-story
building in the heart of Panama City.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 29, In Ethiopia a flash
flood hit Jijiga town late at night and swept away 200 houses, killing
25 people of whom 19 were children.
(Reuters, 5/31/08)
2008 May 29, In France Pres.
Sarkozy’s government presented a draft bill that would effectively
scrap the 35-hour workweek.
(WSJ, 5/30/08, p.A9)
2008 May 29, Members of one of
India's lower castes blocked major roads, burned car tires, and threw
stones at police in several areas around New Delhi in a continuation of
protests in the country's north and west that has left 39 people dead.
Police said a truck ferrying people to a wedding has plunged into a
river in southern India, killing at least 39 people. An elephant
rampaged through a village in northern India, killing at least 7 people
who tried to surround it.
(AP, 5/29/08)
2008 May 29, In Iraq a suicide
bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits in the
northwestern town of Sinjar, killing at least 16 men and wounding 14
others. Iraq's PM al-Maliki, at a UN conference in Sweden, called for
neighboring countries to forgive debts and war reparations that he said
hindered his nation's recovery despite a reduction in violence. Iraq
has at least $67 billion in foreign debt, most incurred during the rule
of Saddam Hussein and owed to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab
Emirates and Qatar.
(AP, 5/29/08)
2008 May 29, At a ceremony in
Jerusalem, Israel's President Shimon Peres announced that the hoopoe is
now the ornithological symbol of the country. Ornithologist Amir
Balaban, who runs the Jerusalem Bird Observatory, described the hoopoe
as a beautiful, native bird that is monogamous and takes good care of
its children.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 29, In the southern
Philippines 2 people were killed and 21 injured when suspected
terrorists detonated a bomb outside a US aid project office near an air
base.
(AP, 5/29/08)
2008 May 29, South Korea took the
final step to resume full imports of beef from the US, which it banned
in 2003 over fears of mad cow disease.
(WSJ, 5/30/08, p.A9)
2008 May 29, Sri Lanka's military
sank four Tamil Tiger rebel boats off the island's northern coast after
a battle that killed 7 rebels and one soldier. Army troops captured the
stronghold known as Munnagam Base after 3 days of fighting. The
military said 6 civilians were killed in a rebel artillery attack. A
pro-rebel Web site reported that guerrillas raided a navy camp in
Sirutheevu islet, killing 13 sailors and seizing weapons. Other
fighting in the Mannar and Vavuniya regions in the north killed 4
rebels and wounded 8 soldiers.
(AP, 5/29/08)(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 29, Turkish warplanes
attacked several Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq. No casualties
were immediately reported. Air raids destroyed 16 Kurdish rebel
facilities.
(AP, 5/29/08)(AP, 5/31/08)
2009 May 29, President Barack
Obama said the nation for too long has failed to adequately protect the
security of its computer networks. He will name a new cyber czar to
take on the job.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, Jay Leno made hosted
his last show at "Tonight," and gave a pre-debut boost to Conan O'Brien
welcoming him as his final guest.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, Phil Spector (69),
former music producer, was sentenced in Los Angeles to 10 years to life
in prison for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
(SFC, 5/30/09, p.A4)
2009 May 29, In California the new
National Ignition Facility was dedicated at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. It was designed to create conditions like those found in
stars and in the explosions of hydrogen bombs. The project was over 5
years behind schedule and costs to date reached $4 billion, almost 4
times the original estimate.
(SFC, 5/30/09, p.A1)(Econ, 5/30/09, p.81)
2009 May 29, In Texas a Houston
jury convicted Philippe Padieu (53) of Houston to 45 years in prison
for knowingly infecting 6 women with the AIDS virus.
(SFC, 5/30/09, p.A4)
2009 May 29, The nonbinding New
York Declaration, an agreement between the signatory flag states which
condemns acts of piracy and armed robbery against vessels and
seafarers, was originally tabled by The Bahamas, the Republic of
Liberia, the Republic of Marshall Islands and the Republic of Panama,
four nations that account for more than half of global shipping.
(www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/d/13476.html)
2009 May 29, In Afghanistan five
militants were killed in an operation in the Musa Qala region of
southern Helmand province. Six militants were killed during a battle
with police in the western province of Farah. Two would-be suicide
attackers were shot and killed in Heart. In Kandahar province a
roadside bomb killed four civilians.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, In Argentina Swiss
architect Peter Zumthor (66) received the 2009 Pritzker Architecture
Prize. He compared his creative process to the arc of a love affair.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, Cuba criticized
Microsoft for blocking its Messenger instant messaging service on the
island and in other countries under US sanctions, calling it yet
another example of Washington's "harsh" treatment of Havana.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, Indonesian government
marine geologist Yusuf Surachman said that a massive underwater
mountain discovered off the island of Sumatra could be a volcano with
potentially catastrophic power. It was discovered earlier this month
about 330 kilometers (205 miles) west of Bengkulu city during research
to map the seabed's seismic faultlines.
(AFP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, A moderate think tank
led by Iran's former top nuclear negotiator accused President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad of distorting facts about the country's nuclear program to
depict himself as a hero and improve his chances in the upcoming
election.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, In Iraq a local
leader of a government-backed Sunni paramilitary group was killed when
a bomb hidden on a motorcycle exploded as he opened his butcher store
on the outskirts of Baqouba. Another bomb exploded inside a bus station
north of Baghdad in the Shiite enclave of Khalis, killing at least four
people and wounding 10. In northern Iraq an American soldier was killed
in a grenade attack in Ninevah province.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, In Kashmir the bodies
of two young women (17 & 22) were found in Shopian town. The
pregnant wife of Shakeel Ahmed Ahangar and his teenage sister were
allegedly raped and murdered by Indian soldiers.
(Reuters, 6/20/09)(Econ, 6/27/09, p.48)
2009 May 29, North Korea warned it
would act in "self-defense" if provoked by the UN Security Council,
which is considering tough sanctions over the communist country's
nuclear test, and followed the threat with the test launch of another
short-range missile.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, Puerto Rico fired
nearly 8,000 government workers, the start of a wave of layoffs aimed
at closing a budget deficit as the island struggles through its third
year of recession.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, Russian and American
officials formally dedicated a high-tech plant in southern Siberia,
built with the help of $1 billion from the US and designed to destroy
about 2 million chemical weapons shells.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2009 May 29, Saudi authorities
beheaded and crucified a man convicted of brutally slaying an
11-year-old boy and his father.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 29, In Geneva a 65-nation
Conference on Disarmament broke a dozen years of deadlock and opened
the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty.
(AP, 5/29/09)
2010 May 29, The worst oil spill
in US history hit its 40th day with Gulf residents clinging to the
tenuous hope that BP's complicated "top kill" operation will plug the
gushing well.
(Reuters, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, In Daly City, Ca., a
rave at the Cow Palace left 2 people dead due to drug use. The event
drew some 16,500 attendees who paid about $85 each at the door.
(SFC, 6/16/10, p.A10)
2010 May 29, Dennis Hopper
(b.1936), film star, died in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. He
brought the counterculture to Hollywood with "Easy Rider" (1969) and
led a career marked by successes, failures and comebacks. He also had
parts in such favorites as "Rebel Without a Cause," "Apocalypse Now,"
"Blue Velvet" and "Hoosiers."
(AP, 5/30/10)
2010 May 29, Taliban insurgents
claimed a victory when they captured an Afghan government outpost in a
remote mountainous region near the Pakistan border. Officials said up
to a dozen Taliban-linked militants, including their commander, were
killed when NATO and Afghan troops backed by air support struck their
sanctuaries in the northern Baghlan mountains.
(AP, 5/29/10)(AP, 5/30/10)
2010 May 29, The premier of China,
North Korea's main ally, offered condolences to South Korea for the
sinking of a warship blamed on Pyongyang after promising that Beijing,
under pressure to punish the North, would not defend any country guilty
of the attack.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, In China 17 miners
were killed by a dynamite explosion at the Shuguang Coal Mine in
Chenzhou city, Hunan province.
(AP, 5/30/10)
2010 May 29, The 55th annual
Eurovision song competition was expected to be watched by more than 120
million viewers in 39 European countries as well as in Burma, Australia
and New Zealand. Norway's public broadcaster NRK spent 200 million
kroner (25 million euros, 30 million dollars) to host the show.
(AFP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, Tropical Storm Agatha
made landfall near the border of Guatemala and Mexico with wind
speeds of up to 45 mph (75 kph), then weakened into a tropical
depression. The torrential rains in the first tropical storm of
the 2010 season triggered deadly landslides. The death toll reached 15
but authorities said the number could rise. In El Salvador rains
delivered by Agatha triggered at least 140 landslides throughout the
country killing two adults and a 10-year-old child.
(AP, 5/30/10)
2010 May 29, In Guatemala a
cavernous and almost perfectly round sinkhole swallowed an entire
intersection in Guatemala City during a tropical storm, spooking people
in the neighborhood but exciting geologists. The hole was 66 feet (20m)
across and plunged nearly 100 feet (30m) deep.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 May 29, Hong Kong police
confiscated a statue mourning victims of China's 1989 crackdown on
protesters in Tiananmen Square and arrested 13 activists, in what
critics called an escalation in political censorship in the
semiautonomous Chinese territory.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, Indian railway
authorities canceled all night trains in West Bengal state one day
after a passenger express train derailed and was hit by a cargo train.
The government accused Maoist rebels of sabotaging the tracks.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, Police in Indian
Kashmir fired teargas to disperse thousands of villagers protesting
against what they said was the staged killing of three Muslims by the
security forces.
(AFP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, A fire at an Iranian
oil well at the Naft Shahr border region near the Iraq border killed
three people and injured 10 more.
(Reuters, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, A Kurdish newspaper
said imprisoned Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan has accused Turkey
of ignoring his calls to establish dialogue with his rebels and that he
would withdraw from the process, leaving his rebel command in charge.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, In Mexico the body of
a prison warden kidnapped by gunmen earlier in the day was found
dismembered and scattered in several locations in a Morelos state
adjacent to the Mexican capital. Police found an abandoned silver mine
scattered with bodies outside Taxco, Guerrero state. At least 64 bodies
were eventually recovered in what appeared to be a dumping ground for
victims of organized crime.
(Reuters, 5/30/10)(AP, 5/30/10)(AP, 6/4/10)(AP,
6/7/10)(SFC, 6/25/10, p.A3)
2010 May 29, Palestinian security
officials and witnesses said Israeli warplanes launched six overnight
raids on the Islamist-run Gaza Strip, adding that nobody was wounded in
the attacks. An Israeli military spokesman said only that two air raids
had taken place, and that they targeted a tunnel in the south linking
Gaza to Israel and a weapons workshop in the north.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, In Russia 2 Gay Pride
parades were held without arrests in Moscow, the first time the
notoriously intolerant Russian authorities have not intervened since
the inaugural attempt to hold the event in the capital in 2006.
(AP, 5/29/10)
2010 May 29, In Russia DDT rock
star Yuri Shevchuk engaged PM Putin during a televised meeting to
promote a charity concert for children. Shevchuk called for anti
government protests to be allowed and accused police of serving “their
bosses and their pockets, not the people.” Putin said “People’s rights
to express their disapproval should be protected.”
(SFC, 6/1/10, p.A6)
2010 May 29, Turkey’s military
said 3 security forces members were killed and two soldiers were
wounded in clashes with Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey.
(Reuters, 5/29/10)
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