Monday, May 29, 2000
History today -- 11:57 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1790: Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1848: Wisconsin becomes the 30th State in the Union.
- 1914: the British liner Empress of Ireland carrying 1,477 passengers and crew collided with the Norwegian freighter Storstadt in the St. Lawrence River in Canada. At least 1,012 people died.
- 1917: John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, MA.
- 1932: WW I Veterans begin arriving in Washington DC to demand their pay bonuses that were not scheduled to be received for another 13 years.
- 1940: German forces captured Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France.
- 1943: Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1944: a German submarine sank the Block Island, a U.S. aircraft carrier, near Madeira. She was the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic in World War II.
- 1953: Climbers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to climb to the peak of Mount Everest.
- 1973: Tom Bradley is elected to be the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
- 1999: The space shuttle Discovery completed the first-ever docking with the international space station.
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