Today in History - History - May 29th

1988Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1989Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires

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

1990Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic

1992White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base

1994Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

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

1984Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)

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

1967Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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