This Day In History

On May 29
1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state in the union.
1910 An airplane raced a train from Albany, New York to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.
1911 The first running of the Indianapolis 500 took place.
1916 The official flag of the President of United States was adopted.
1922 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, D.C. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norga became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1962 Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major-league baseball when he accepted a job with the Chicago Cubs.
1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1974 U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1978 In the U.S., postage stamps were raised from 13 cents to 15 cents.
1988 U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
1995 The last 3 bodies were recovered from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.