History for May 29

History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 - Writer of philosophy, ontolory, poetry, Oswald Spengler (Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler) 1880 - German historian and philosopher


Bob Hope 1903 - Comedian, actor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (U.S.) 1917 - 35th President of the United States, refered to by his initials JFK, Paul Erlich 1932 - Biologist, educator


1453 - Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.


1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.


1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.


1932 - World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.


1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.


1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.


1965 - Ralph Boston set a world record in the broad jump at 27-feet, 4-3/4 inches, at a meet held in Modesto, CA.


1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.