Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2003 with 216 to follow. On this day, May 29, in history:
In 1453, Constantinople (now Istanbul), capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Turks. In 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. In 1790, Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1848, following approval by the territory's citizens, Wisconsin entered the Union as the 30th state. In 1865, President Johnson issued a proclamation giving a general amnesty to all who took part in the rebellion against the United States. In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest. In 1958, Process for Beatification for Fr. Agnelo approved by Pope Pius XII. In 1977, a flash fire swept through a nightclub in Southgate, Ky., killing 162 people and injuring 30. In 1985, British soccer fans attacked Italian fans preceding the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium. The resulting stadium stampede killed 38 people and injured 400. In 1987, film director John Landis and four other defendants were found innocent of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese child actors during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie." In 1989, Chinese students in Tiananmen Square erected a 33-foot statue similar to the Statue of Liberty. In 1990, renegade communist Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the giant Russian republic. In 1991, scientists from Emory University discovered the gene that causes fragile-X syndrome, an untreatable mental retardation. In 1993, federal health officials announced that an unidentified disease with no known cause had taken 10 lives on or near the Navajo Reservation in the southwestern United States. In 1995, the bodies of three more victims were found in the rubble of the bombed-out federal building in Oklahoma City. In 1996, in Israel's first selection of a prime minister by direct vote, Benjamin Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres to become leader of Israel. The margin of victory was less than one percent. In 1997, Lt. Kelly Flinn, the Air Force's first female B-52 bomber pilot, was discharged following an investigation stemming from adultery charges against her. The same day, the Army relieved Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis of his command of the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Ga., because of an apparently "improper relationship" with a civilian nurse who was caring for his wife. Also in 1997, Zaire rebel leader Laurent Kabila was sworn in as president of what was again being called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2000, the Indonesian government placed former President Suharto under house arrest on charges of corruption and abuse of power. In 2002, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington might have been avoided if the FBI had acted on available information. ======================================================= Let's compile a chronicle of Goan History. If you have an authentic date and event in Goan History, please e-mail the details to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================= ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################