May 29

May 29 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years). There are 213 days remaining.

Births:

• 1630 - King Charles II of England

• 1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer

• 1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 below)

• 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.

• 1953 - Danny Elfman (composer)

Events:

• 1660 - Restoration of the monarchy in England

• 1919 - Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirm Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (see Arthur Eddington)

• 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest

Deaths:

• 1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith and the Orthodox Bahai Faith)

• 1995 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany while in exile in Chile

• 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 - more historical anniversaries