THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― MAY 29

May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of the year.

NATIONAL PAPERCLIP DAY 

757 ― St. Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

1138 ― Antipope Victor IV (Gregorio Conti) submitted himself to Pope Innocentius II. Not as menacing as it sounds, an antipope (Latin: antipapa) is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

1176 ― The Battle at Legnano is fought. Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire.

1453 ―  Constantinople, the then capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to Turkish Mehmed II (The Conqueror), ending the Byzantine Empire.

1733 ― The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.

1765 ― Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1780 ― The Battle of Waxhaw Creek is fought. An alleged massacre of 113 of Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals by British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton's troops occurred after the continentals had raised a white flag.

1790 ― Rhode Island becomes last of the original 13 colonies ratifying U.S. Constitution.


1849 ― Abraham Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln was, at this time, a practicing lawyer in Illinois having served one term, as promised, in the U.S. House of Representatives.


1900 ― Trademark name "Escalator" is registered by the Otis Elevator Company (employee Charles Seeberger created the name).


1912 ― The Ballets Russes premieres their ballet L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) in Paris, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky.

1916 ― The official flag of the President of United States is adopted.

1919 ― Albert Einstein's prediction of light-bending by gravity (gravitational lens), in the theory of General Relativity, is confirmed by Arthur Eddington.

1922 ― The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws.


1945 ― The U.S. 1st Marine Division conquerors Shuri Castle, Okinawa. The action on Okinawa would cost the Marines 1655 lives and was their last battle of WWII.


1951 ― The first North Pole flight in a single engine plane is performed by U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Charles F. Blaire, Jr. in a converted P-51 Mustang. - Arlington National Cemetary Website


1953 ― Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition.

1954 ― The first of the annual Bilderberg conferences takes place.

1968 ― The U.S. Truth in Lending Act is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1972 ― The Official Irish Republican Army (IRA, Marxists) announce a ceasefire with the British Army.


1973 ― Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley is elected as the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.


1987 ― "Twilight Zone" director John Landis and four others are found innocent in the deaths of three, including actor Vic Morrow, during the filming. ― The Los Angeles Times


1988 ― President Ronald Reagan travels to Moscow to begin the fourth summit meeting held in the past three years with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.


1999 ― Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-96) completes the first docking with the International Space Station.


2004 ―  The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., almost 54 years after the end of the war.

BORN TODAY 

1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)

1736 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)

1917 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)

1929 – Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, the Higgs Bozon

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.