Today In History
Aquí hay algunos hechos interesantes en la historia que sucedió en 29 May.
- Constantinople falls to Turks (Signaled end of Middle Ages)
- Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
- SC formally incorporated as a royal colony
- Rhode Is became last of original 13 ratifing Constitution
- Wisconsin becomes 30th state
- A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln
- Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
- Death of prophet Baha'Ullah (Ascension of Baha'Ullah)
- US forces invade Dominican Republic - stay until 1924
- Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur Eddington
- 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair
- Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest
- Actor - Kirk & Anne Douglas married
- 1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years)
- Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m