May 29 in History

Historical Events on May 29

1780 American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.

1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.

1918 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.

1919 Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

1932 World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.

1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

1988 The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

2001 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.

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Famous Birthdays on May 29

1917 John F. Kennedy

1955 Ken Schrader

1967 Noel Gallagher

1984 Carmelo Anthony

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Famous Deaths on May 29

1453 Constantine XI Palaiologos

1942 John Barrymore

1998 Barry Goldwater

2004 Archibald Cox

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