What to remember about May 29th…
- 1780 Patriots defeated at Battle of Waxhaws in South Carolina; troops surrendering to Colonel Tarelton’s cavalry are murdered on his orders
- 1790 Rhode Island is the last of original 13 colonies to ratify U.S. Constitution; becomes 13th state in the Union
- 1848 Wisconsin enters the Union as 30th state
- 1917 Future 35th President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts
- 1922 Supreme court rules unanimously in Federal Baseball Club v. National League that Major League Baseball did not violate anti-trust laws and that baseball was not “interstate commerce”; games are state affairs
- 1932 Over 1000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. as part of “Bonus Expeditionary Force”; protesting to receive payments promised for their service in the war
- 1942 Adolf Hitler orders that all Jews in occupied Paris must wear a yellow Star of David on the left side of their coats
- 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Nepalese Shepra Tenzing Norgay become 1st to reach summit of Mount Everest
- 1954 In the Netherlands, 1st annual meeting of the influential members of the Bilderberg Group is held
- 1998 U.S. Senator (R-AZ) and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater dies (b. 1909); responsible for rise of modern conservative movement
- 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery completes the 1st successful docking at the International Space Station (ISS)
- 2003 English-born American actor, comedian, and USO icon Bob Hope celebrates his 100th birthday in Hollywood revelry
- 2004 President George W. Bush dedicates U.S. National World War II Memorial; critics from Boston Herald call it “vainglorious”
- 2005 Danica Patrick becomes 1st woman driver to lead a lap at Indianapolis 500; 4th female to participate in that race and highest finish at 4th
