Portal:United States/On this day/May 29
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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 Irving Berlin's "White 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.
