05-29-2005, 04:40 AM
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May 29th
1452 ~ Ottoman armies captured Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1860 ~ Birthday of Isaac Albéniz, Spanish Composer.
1874 ~ Birthday of G. K. Chesterton, English author.
1886 ~ John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in the Atlanta Journal.
1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author.
1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris.
1917 ~ Birthday of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the U.S.
1919 ~ Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1972 ~ Terrorism: Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.
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