Today is Friday, May 29, the 149th day of 2009. 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 all of the people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"
1900 _ Trademark ``Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator
1919 _ Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1942 _ Bing Crosby records ``White Christmas" greatest selling record to date
1968 _ Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament
1968 _ U.N. resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
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
1997 _ Spain scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil