May 29th
Today in America's Present Past
1736 | Founding Father Patrick Henry was born.
1765 | Patrick Henry gives his historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1780 | War of Independence: Waxhaw massacre.
1787 | The “Virginia Plan" by James Madison and Edmund Randolph was proposed to the Constitutional Convention.
1790 | Statehood: Rhode Island granted statehood.
1790 | General Israel Putnam died.
1826 | Entrepreneur Ebenezer Butterick was born.
1848 | Statehood: Wisconsin granted statehood.
1903 | Actor Bob Hope was born.
1916 | POTUS: The Official flag of the President of the United States was adopted.
1917 | POTUS: President John F. Kennedy is born.
1919 | “Red Summer race riots” in New London, Connecticut.
1921 | Painter Abbott Handerson Thayer died.
1942 | Actor John Berrymore died.
1955 | Presidential assign John Hinckley Jr. was born.
1958 | Actress Annette Bening was born.
1961 | Musician Melissa Etheridge was born.
1998 | Politician Barry Goldwater died.
2010 | Actor Dennis Hopper died.