History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com

History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Bob Hope 1903 - Comedian, actor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (U.S.) 1917 - 35th President of the United States, refered to by his initials JFK 


Paul Erlich 1932 - Biologist, educator, Stacy Keach, Sr. (Walter Stacy Keach) 1941 - Actor, narrator, 
John Hinckley Jr. 1955 - Attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 


1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. 


1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize. 


1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job. 


1916 - U.S. forces invaded Dominican Republic and remained until 1924. 


1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws. 


1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest. 


1974 - U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts. 


1986 - Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras. 


1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.