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A total solar eclipse occurred on May 29, 1919. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_29,_1919 Conjunction of 5 planets on the 29th May 1058 BC http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994JBAA..104..293D/0000294.000.html __________________

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Oak Apple Day is perhaps a continuation of pre-Christian nature worship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day __________________

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The official groundbreaking on the main National Ignition Facility site was in May 29, 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility On 29 May 2012 a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit northern Italy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Emilia_earthquakes#29_May_earthquake __________________

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On Tuesday, 29 May 1453, the Ottomans finally conquered Constantinople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

Rhode Island was the last colony of the thirteen colonies to ratify the United States Constitution on May 29, 1790,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island#History

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29 1953
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River in the early hours of 29 May 1914.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49350219/rms-empress-of-ireland/

RCMPV St. Roch was the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America in 1950
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Roch_(ship)

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Explorer 28 (IMP-C, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)) was launched on the 29th May 1965
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1965-042A

Luna 22 lunar orbiter mission was launched on the 29th May 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_22

NOAA-B was a spacecraft in the TIROS -N series launched by NASA on May 29, 1980.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-B

Aurora 2, an Alaskan-owned telecommunications satellite, was launched on the 29th May 1991
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1991-037A

STS-96 was the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station on 29 May 1999.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49350193/sts-96-mission/

Maracati 1 was launched on the 29th May 2009
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t28250156/maracati-1-mission/

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Johannes Winkler (May 29, 1897 - December 27, 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who founded the first German rocket society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Winkler

Tenzing Norgay (late May 1915 - 9 May 1986) was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay

Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish weather presenter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kirkwood

Tim Tait (born May 29, 1971 in Owen Sound, Canada) is an American/Canadian particle physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_M._P._Tait

Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47982504/peter-higgs/

Humphry Ditton (29 May 1675 - 15 October 1715) was an English mathematician.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Ditton

Richard H. "Dick" Emmons (May 29, 1919-June 2005) was an American astronomer and engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Emmons

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (29 May 1885 - 24 July 1964) was a German astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Finlay-Freundlich

Johann Heinrich von Mädler (May 29, 1794 - March 14, 1874) was a German astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_M%C3%A4dler

Johan August Hugo Gyldén (May 29, 1841 - November 9, 1896) was a Finland-Swedish astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gyld%C3%A9n

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NGC 1851 was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on the 29th May 1826.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49349523/ngc-1851/

Messier 10 was discovered by French astronomer Charles-Joseph Messier on the 29th May 1764.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53622165/messier-10/

NGC 6663 was discovered by American astronomer Edward D. Swift on the 29th May 1887.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57687116/ngc-6663/

NGC 6685 was discovered by Edward D. Swift on the 29th May 1887.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57687110/ngc-6685/

NGC 6686 was discovered by Edward D. Swift on the 29th May 1887.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57687096/ngc-6686/

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Mneme, a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mneme_(moon)

Asteroid (72) Feronia was the first asteroid discovery by C. H. F. Peters, on May 29, 1861
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_Feronia

Asteroid (284) Amalia is was discovered by Auguste Charlois on May 29, 1889 in Nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/284_Amalia

Satellite observations of the daylight fireball of May 29, 1994.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994JIMO...22..228L

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Meteorites The Ichkala (H6) meteorite fell in Tomskaya oblast', Russia, on the 29th May, 1936. http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49350151/ichkala-meteorite/ __________________

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