Today is Friday, May 29, the 149th day of 2015. There are 216 days left in the world.
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"
1919 ― Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1928 ― Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1942 ― Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" greatest selling record to date
1982 ― Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war
1989 ― Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
1990 ― Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic
1994 ― Great comet-ice ball seen above North Sea
1997 ― Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil