This Day in History – May 29

1972 – Prithviraj Kapoor was an Indian actor, film producer, director, writer and politician who started his career in the silent era of Hindi cinema. He passed away on this day.

1987 – Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 and 14 January 1980. Former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh died on 29 May.

1886- On this day, John Pemberton who was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola begins to advertise Coca-Cola. 

1919-  Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington’s expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa.

1943- Conference at Algiers between Winston Churchill, George Marshall, and general Dwight d. Eisenhower.

1965- French Championships Men’s Tennis: Fred Stolle beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 for his first Grand Slam singles title.

1987- Micheal Jackson pop star makes a bid to buy the bones of Joseph Merrick, popularly known as the “Elephant Man”. In exchange for the remains, Jackson offers the London Hospital Medical College $500,000.

1989- In preparation for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on Tuesday, a white statue of a woman has been relocated from a Hong Kong university to Victoria Park, the site of an annual candlelight vigil commemorating the incident. More than 500 miles away, in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, an almost identical sculpture has been installed inside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.

1996- The SPACEHAB single module supports equipment for 12 commercial space product development payloads in the areas of biotechnology, electronic materials, polymers, and agriculture as well as several experiments for other NASA payload organizations. It landed.

2011- Ivan Lam (born 18 July 1994) is a student who together with Joshua Wong established the Hong Kong student activist group, Scholarism, on 29 May 2011. 

2017- Early Monday morning in Jupiter, Fla, Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Booked for DUI in a Palm Beach County jail at 7:18 a.m. ET, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the golf legend was released on his own recognizance at 10:50 a.m.

2019- US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime is never an option as there is no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president.

1917- John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass), born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

1950– Rebbie Jackson who is an American singer was born today

1953- Danny Elfman, American composer (The Simpsons Theme), born in Los Angeles, California.

1975- Melanie Brown, an English singer who is famous as “ the scary spice” was born in Leeds.