Today in History - History - May 29th

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

1994Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr.wins in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)

1962Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"

1988Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1994Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game

1919Albert Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

1913Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.

1989Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires

1953Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

1959Charles de Gaulle forms French government

1967Noel Gallagher, Manchester, English pop musician (Oasis)

1917John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)

1630Charles II, St. James's Palace, London, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-85)

1958Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) [or 5/5]

1953Danny Elfman, Los Angeles California, composer (Simspon Show Theme)

1906T.H. White, Bombay India, English author (King Arthur)

1884Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London

1944Boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson (23) weds Edna Mae Holly

1939Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (25) weds Aliza Arnold

1849Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (26) weds secretary Marie Laurent (23) in Strasbourg, France

2010Five-time Grammy Award singer Shania Twain (42) divorces music producer Robert John Lange (59) after 14 years of marriage

1952Country music legend Hank Williams and Audrey Sheppard granted divorce for the second and final time after seven years of marriage. Their first divorce was in 1948.

1911William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74

1979Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 87