bransonglobe.com HISTORY May 29-30, 2020 • 15 Today in History: Sports, movies and more • 1453 Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Muhammad II; ends the Byzantine Empire • 1592 Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship • 1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end • 1765 Patrick Henry’s historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of “Treason!” with, “If this be treason, make the most of it!” • 1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution • 1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio • 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for the Union Army • 1886 American chemist John Pemberton 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 Meat and cheese rationed in US • 1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition • 1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man’s remains • 1989 Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy • 1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic • 1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands • 2011 Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism started by Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam • 2014 President Obama approves US military training of ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups • 2018 Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April • 2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president • 2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization Music • 1989 Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy • 1913 Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premieres in Paris, provoking a riot • 1942 Bing Crosby records “White Christmas”, world’s best-selling single (estimated 100 million copies sold) • 1960 Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” hits #1 • 1976 “One Piece At A Time” by Johnny Cash hits #29 Movies & TV • 1942 “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Joan Lesley, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943) • 1962 Barbra Streisand appears on “Garry Moore Show” • 2015 “Jurassic World”, directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard premieres in Paris • 2018 ABC TV network cancels TV comedy “Roseanne” after its star Roseanne Barr posts a racist tweet Sports • 1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws • 1977 Indianapolis Johnson 500: A. J. Foyt wins for a record 4th time • 1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic rookie of year • 1990 Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb’s record • 2017 Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida Birthdays • 1736 Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary for NBA London, England (d. 2003) • 1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1963) and Founding Father famous for his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech • 1903 Bob Hope, British born American entertainer, born in EXP 5/31/20
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