1910<\/strong> – An airplane raced a train from Albany,\u00a0NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia,\u00a0PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – The official flag of the president of the\u00a0United States\u00a0was adopted.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. forces invaded the Dominican Republic and remained until 1924.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Ecuador became independent.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – World War I veterans began arriving in Washington,\u00a0DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – C.F. Blair became the first man to fly over the North Pole in a single-engine plane.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Buck (John) O\u2019Neil became the first black coach in\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Ralph Boston set a world record in the broad jump at 27-feet, 4-3\/4 inches, at a meet held in Modesto,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Nixon\u00a0agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., postage stamps were raised from 13 cents to 15 cents.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Thirty-nine people were killed and 400 were injured in a riot at a European Cup soccer match in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – NBC aired “To Heal A Nation,” the story of Jan Scruggs’ effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The ruling party in Indonesia, Golkar, won the Parliament election by a record margin. There were a boycott movement and rioting that killed 200 people.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>\u00a0completed the first docking with the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Fiji’s military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0National World War II Memorial\u00a0is dedicated in\u00a0Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0double earthquake, of combined\u00a0magnitude\u00a06.1, strikes\u00a0Iceland\u00a0near the town of\u00a0Selfoss, injuring 30 people.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 5.8-magnitude\u00a0earthquake\u00a0hits northern Italy near\u00a0Bologna, killing at least 24 people.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> – The Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.<\/p>\n History of 29 May 1910 – An airplane raced a train from Albany,\u00a0NY, to New York City. 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