Portal:United States/Anniversaries/May/May 29
- 1736 – Patrick Henry, first and sixth Governor of Virginia, Founding Father, and orator remembered most for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, was born.
- 1917 – John F. Kennedy (pictured), 35th President of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born.
- 1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., forming what would be called the Bonus Army, to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. The movement would be violently dispersed just under two months later.
- 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, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
- 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- 2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Events
- 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
- 1765 – Patrick Henry in a speech denouncing the Stamp Act is believed to have said, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
- 1780 – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.
- 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.
- 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- 1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
- 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Merry Christmas, the best–selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
- 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
- 1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- 2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
- 2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.