It happened on a… May 29

2019

Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization.

2018

ABC TV network cancels TV comedy “Roseanne” after its star Roseanne Barr posts a racist tweet.

2017

Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida.

2015

Heat wave in India centered in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week.

1999

Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

1996

Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11, lands with astronaut Marc Garneau.

1990

Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic.

1980

Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

1959

Charles de Gaulle forms French government.

1953

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1942

Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history.

1914

Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved.