Today in History - History - May 29th

1990Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record

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

1962Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"

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

1992White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base

1990Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic

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

1851Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

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

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

1903Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes Hope], Eltham Kent, British born American entertainer

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

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

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

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

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

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

1992Actor Robert Downey Jr (27) weds actress/singer Deborah Falconer (26)

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

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