WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013

Today is Wednesday, May 29, the 149th day of 2013. There are 216 days left in the year.

526 ― Antioch struck by earthquake; about 250,000 die

1849 ― Lincoln says “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"

1900 ― Trademark “Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co.

1942 ― Bing Crosby records “White Christmas" greatest selling record to date

1959 ― Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

1968 ― U.N. resolves sanctions on white minority-ruled Rhodesia

1977 ― Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500

1982 ― Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war

1990 ― Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic

1997 ― Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil