Today in History - History - May 29th

1978Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1176Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire

1994Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

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

1989Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires

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

1660On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end

1983Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

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

1959Charles de Gaulle forms French government

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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