May 29 - Jawsome

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This Day In History

1414

Council of Constance.

1453

Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1790

Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.

1852

Jenny Lind leaves New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.

1886

Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.

1913

Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.

1919

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.

1942

Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.

1950

St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1953

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.

1982

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

1999

Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

Famous Birthdays

1594

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)

1736

Patrick Henry, American patriot, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)

1794

Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)

1860

Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)

1874

G. K. Chesterton^*, English novelist (d. 1936)

1903

Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)

1906

T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)

1917

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)

1938

Fay Vincent, American baseball commissioner
1952
Louise Cooper, British fantasy writer (d. 2009)

1953

Danny Elfman, American musician and composer

1959

Rupert Everett, English actor
1961
 Melissa Etheridge, American musician

* - "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."