This day in history

It’s my birthday today, so I decided to see what happened on May 29 throughout history like my friend Mary did on her birthday. From Wikipedia:

EVENTS
1660 — English Restoration. Charles II restored to the throne of England.
1677 — The Treaty of Middle Plantation established peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
1727 — Peter II becomes czar of Russia.
1765 — Patrick Henry, in a speech denouncing the Stamp Act, reportedly said, “If this be treason, make the most of it!”
1790 — Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th state.
1848 — Wisconsin admitted as the 30 state.
1886 — Chemist John Pemberton places his first ad for Coca-Cola in the Atlanta Journal.
1935 — Hoover Dam is completed.
1953 — Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
2005 — France rejects the European Constitution, throwing a European Union into question.

BIRTHS
King Charles II of England (1630)
Patrick Henry (1736)
Bob Hope (1903)
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (1914 — Hey, he reached the summit of Mt. Everest on his birthday!)
John F. Kennedy (1917)
Annette Bening (1958)
Rupert Everett (1959)

HOLIDAYS
Memorial Day — sometimes (U.S.)
Oak Apple Day (U.K.)
Tree Day (Venezuela) — Cool! I love trees.

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